Konrad Lang (painter)

Konrad Lang (born February 24, 1933 in Vienna ; † June 13, 2014 in Altmünster am Traunsee) was an Austrian artist who was primarily a painter , but also worked in the fields of linocut , chalk drawings and handicrafts as well as composing.

Life

Konrad Lang's father Erwin Lang , an academic painter and graphic artist , allowed him to actively participate in his artistic activities as early as preschool age. He also experienced the early childhood phase in art in the boathouse near the Köcherts on Lake Traunsee, where nude painting emerged in a revealing artistic environment . As a child, Konrad Lang was often in his father's studio, where he learned the technique of woodcut .

After four years of elementary school in Altmünster and four classes of secondary school in Gmunden , Lang began studying at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna at the age of 16 in October 1949 . During this time he created portraits of the playwright Richard Billinger and the composer Josef Matthias Hauer . Between 1949 and 1953 he completed the master classes for painting with Albert Paris Gütersloh , for nude drawing with Herbert Boeckl and for anatomy and art history . At his graduation as an academic painter in March 1953 he received the professor's prize from his teachers and in 1958 a Rome scholarship from the Academy of Sciences.

This was followed by exhibitions in Vienna , Rome , Linz and other cities in Austria. The Ministry of Education acquired some of his works and others went to Paris , London and the United States . The racing driver Jochen Rindt owned four of his pictures.

Lang lived on a country estate in the Salzkammergut , which inspired him to do many of his work. He collected works of art, graphics and pictures by old masters. Motifs such as rugged rock formations in the four seasons, ripening grain fields just before mowing, blooming fruit trees in spring, olive trees in scorching heat and a multitude of portraits were taken up and implemented by him cyclically. The collaboration in arts and crafts with his wife Liselotte Lucheschitz-Lang was also rich in variety.

art

In his youth, Konrad Lang represented a restrained expressionism in which he took great freedom in the design of the surface, but always kept the border to abstraction with the motif. As a committed open-air painter, he executed the large-format paintings of billowing grain fields, which with the Traunstein as a silhouette in the Alpine foothills capture the rural summer. Lang loved the harmony of colors to one another. Again and again he preferred certain motifs: rocks and rock formations. Just as he did not value special effects in his landscape paintings, he emphasized the expression of the models and colors more in his portraits, which tend to be abstract.

literature

• Wolfgang Cervicek: Konrad Lang - an artist's life on the Traunsee. I search, I look, I paint, I pray. In: Kurt Druckenthaner, Stephan Gaisbauer, Klaus Petermayr (eds.): Seegang. Results of field, rock and water research at the Traunsee. ( Upper Austrian writings on folk music, 13) (= writings on literature and language in Upper Austria, 17). Linz 2013, pp. 173–180.
• Rytmogram Bad Ischl: 25 years of Rytmogram. Global-Print.com, Linz.
• Josef Aigner, Josef Linschinger (ed.): Salzkammergut Artists' Guild 1928–1988. Salzkammergut printing works, Gmunden.
• Josef Linschinger  : Salzkammergut Artists' Guild 1928–1998. Ernstmann Druck, Aurolzmünster, p. 64 f.
• Painting and graphics Liselotte Lucheschitz, Konrad Lang. Exhibition catalog. Copenhagen Art Academy Gallery (1969). Kammerhofgalerie Gmunden.
• Bernhard Barta : Artists & Emperors in the Salzkammergut - Anecdotes for summer freshness. Christian Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-85033-165-4 .

Web links

• Official homepage of the artist family Lang

Individual evidence

1. ^ Exhibition review in the Palazzo delle Esposizioni Via Milano. In: Giornale d'Italia , 5./6. June 1959, p. 10.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Gerlinde Obermeir: Konrad Land, an artist with individualism. In: Kronenzeitung , February 5, 1971