Konrad Winter

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Konrad Winter (* 1963 in Salzburg ) is an Austrian visual artist.

Portrait of Konrad Winter

Life

Konrad Winter, born in 1963 in Salzburg, Austria, is a trained printer and has been working as a freelance artist since 1985 . He has taught at various universities and academies since 1990 . Between 1990 and 2008 he led a class at the International Summer Academy for Fine Arts in Salzburg . From 1994 to 1999 he was visiting lecturer at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. He then held teaching positions at the Advertising Design Academy in Salzburg from 2000 to 2005 and at the Traunkirchen Summer Academy in 2009/10, 2012 and 2013 .

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The "Camouflaged Pictures" are modern genre and landscape paintings , and they make up the most important part of the oeuvre of the painter Konrad Winter. In his best-known group of works, he works with car paint on aluminum , and the works are usually large-format and brightly colored. If the viewer stands directly in front of the work, he can only see clearly delineated areas of color. The content of the picture is only revealed at a distance. The images from close up also always appear blurred or blurry, as if viewed through glasses with the wrong dioptric strength.

The most important work cycles of the "Camouflaged Pictures" are:

  • Camouflaged landscape: beaches and cities, villages and public parks, rural idylls or a fish pond represent the content of this work cycle. People rest in the light of the sun under lush green trees or on yellow, sun-drenched sandy beaches. Children playing on the beach.
  • Camouflaged Interior shows the interior of hotels, airplanes and inns. Sometimes the lobby of a luxury hotel can be seen, sometimes the work reveals a view of a hotel bed or the cabin of an Airbus A 380 can be seen.
  • Camouflaged Alps is the counterpart to "Camouflaged Landscapes". Konrad Winter themed the architecture, flora and fauna of the mountains. Mountain ridges bathed in the red light of a setting sun - skiers whiz down a blue and white slope. Sometimes cows can be seen in front of a farmhouse, then marmots greet each other or a deer with large antlers roars.
  • Camouflaged Cities: The glass pyramid of the Louvre in Paris, the house fronts of the Roman in Frankfurt or a city view of Munich with the characteristic towers of the Frauenkirche. In the group of works Camouflaged Cities, Winter concentrated on specific sights and cityscapes that are significant for a particular metropolis.
  • Camouflaged Prosperity: The group of works addresses the contrast between rich and poor, between consumption and poverty. You can see homeless people sleeping on a park bench in the middle of their belongings, the lights of a shop window, the hustle and bustle inside a shopping center or mannequins.

The older groups of works "Abendgesellschafter", "Kopfstück" and "Deutsche Aktien" belong to the genre of portrait painting . These groups of works were created before the “Camouflaged Landscapes”.

  • Evening companions: Actors, moderators and historical personalities are the "evening companions" shown. Konrad Winter's works have a high recognition value , although he abstracted the people and reduced them to the outlines. Plywood panels and acrylic were used as material. The outlines are carved into the painting ground in relief and then colored in a darker shade of the same color as the background.
  • The headjoints: It is a variation of the series "Abendgesellschafter". The subject of the picture is identical, but the material differs from the original series. Mostly commissioned works are the "head pieces" wall paintings or glass installations, such as the glass tableaus "head pieces" in the Sparkasse Fulda from 2001.
  • German stocks: These are portraits of internationally known personalities from television, cinema or sports and people from the African continent. Winter stamped the company logos of listed German companies on small plain-colored fields and composed portraits from these pixels. The "Deutsche Aktien" are stamp prints in oil on wood or canvas.

gallery

  • Konrad Winter, work in public space, cell structure, 2005, University Hospital Freiburg Pathology, detail, 2303 × 482 cm

  • Konrad Winter, Camouflaged Interior / Hotelzimmer, 2008, 83 × 117 cm, car paint on aluminum

  • Konrad Winter, Camouflaged Alps / Edelweiß, 2009, 150 × 180 cm, car paint on aluminum

  • Konrad Winter, Camouflaged Cities / Sterneckstraße, 2011, 66 × 93 cm, car paint on aluminum

  • Konrad Winter, Camouflaged Landscape / Fish Pond, 2011, 125 × 222 cm, car paint on aluminum

  • Konrad Winter, Camouflaged Prosperity, mannequins, 2012, 100 × 120 cm, car paint on aluminum

  • Konrad Winter, Camouflaged Landscape / Jardin du Luxembourg, 2012, 85 × 150 cm, car paint on aluminum

Works in public space

  • 2009: Sparkasse Emsland, Meppen
  • 2009: Vollmer-Werke, Biberach
  • 2008: Société Générale Frankfurt
  • 2007: Ennepe Finance Center, Gevelsberg
  • 2006: "Camouflaged Landscape", Sparkasse Menden
  • 2005: "Cell structure", University Clinic Freiburg, Pathological Institute
  • 2004: "City Panorama Hanau", Sparkasse Hanau
  • 2003: "Happy Hour", Braugasthof "Die Weisse", Salzburg
  • 2003: "Cityscape of Kaiserslautern", Sparkasse Kaiserslautern
  • 2003: "Glass wall" Heiligenstadt, Thuringia
  • 2001: "Head pieces" glass panels, Sparkasse Fulda
  • 1998–2002: Parking garage at Bahnhof, Salzburg (with Peter Baldinger )
  • 1996: Endoscopy doors, Deaconess Hospital Salzburg
  • 1995: "Dog", scene forecourt, Salzburg

Exhibitions (selection)

Konrad Winter has participated in numerous exhibitions in Germany and Austria since 1985 and since 2004 especially on the Asian continent.

  • 2020: Gallery Kersten, Brunnthal / Munich
  • 2020: Galerie Alex Schlesinger, Zurich
  • 2019: Gallery von Braunbehrens, Stuttgart
  • 2018: Gallery 422, Margund Lössl, Gmunden
  • 2018: DavisKlemmGallery, Wiesbaden
  • 2018: Galerie Frey, Vienna
  • 2017: Bread and Games, Kunstforum Montafon, Schruns (group exhibition)
  • 2017: Galerie pro arte, Freiburg
  • 2016: Galerie Frey, Salzburg
  • 2015: DavisKlemmGallery, Wiesbaden
  • 2015: Galerie Frey, Vienna
  • 2014: Galerie pro arte, Freiburg
  • 2014: DavisKlemmGallery, Wiesbaden
  • 2014: Neuffer am Park, Pirmasens (E)
  • 2013: DavisKlemmGallery, Munich
  • 2012: Galerie Schlesinger, Zurich (E)
  • 2012: INSA Gallery, Seoul, Korea (E)
  • 2012: “Phenomenon Prosperity”, engine hall, Dresden
  • 2012: “Splash!”, DavisKlemmGallery, Frankfurt am Main
  • 2011: "Camouflaged Capitals", DavisKlemmGallery, ZDF-Studio Brussels (E)
  • 2011: "Camouflaged", Galerie Hafenrichter, Nuremberg (E)
  • 2011: "The Unbelievable City", UBR Gallery, Salzburg (E)
  • 2011: Galerie pro Arte, Freiburg (E)
  • 2011: "Fiesta", DavisKlemmGallery, Frankfurt
  • 2011: “Railway Stations”, Galerie Schlesinger, Zurich
  • 2011: “Collection”, INSA Gallery, Seoul
  • 2010: "Camouflaged Beach", QuadrART Dornbirn , Erhard Witzel and Uta Belina Waeger , Dornbirn, Austria (E)
  • 2010: "Camouflaged Prosperity", DavisKlemmGallery, Frankfurt (E)
  • 2010: Galerie Alex Schlesinger, Zurich, Switzerland (E)
  • 2010: “Back then, half the nation was behind the television. Positions on Football ”, DavisKlemmGallery, Frankfurt / M., Germany
  • 2009: "Camouflaged Landscapes", Gallery Maek-Hyang, Daegu, Korea (Republic) (E)
  • 2009: "Camouflaged Landscapes", Insa Gallery, Seoul, Korea (Republic) (E)
  • 2009: "Camouflaged Landscapes", Emsdettener Kunstverein, Germany (E)
  • 2009: "Camouflaged Alps", Nexus Kunsthalle Saalfelden, Austria (E)
  • 2008: "Camouflaged Landscapes", Hyundai Gallery, Seoul, Korea (E)
  • 2008: “No Peanuts”, DavisKlemmGallery, Frankfurt / M., Germany;
  • 2007: "Camouflaged Landscapes", Galerie de Lee, Seoul, Korea
  • 2007: "Camouflaged Landscape", Alex Schlesinger Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland (E)
  • 2006: "Camouflaged Landscape", von Braunbehrens Gallery, Munich, Germany (E)
  • 2006: "Camouflaged Landscape", Pro Arte Gallery, Freiburg, Germany (E)
  • 2006: “From picture to picture”, Museum der Moderne , Salzburg, Austria
  • 2005: "Heimart", Kunstverein Deutschvilla , Strobl am Wolfgangsee, Austria
  • 2004: Munich Stock Exchange, Germany, curated by DSV KunstKontor, Stuttgart
  • 2004: Gallery of the Art Academy Bangkok, Thailand
  • 2004: Galerie Arte Casa, Kakegawa, Japan
  • 2002: 1look. Art in the vestibule, Hallein (E) [1]
  • 1992: Galerie Roswitha Haftmann Modern Art

Prizes, awards and grants

  • 2004: 1st prize in the Freiburg University Clinic competition
  • 1997: Studio grant from the City of Frankfurt am Main
  • 1992: Studio grant at the Cité des Arts , Paris
  • 1989: Slavi Soucek Prize for Graphics
  • 1987: Georg Trakl Prize for Fine Arts
  • 1984: Prize of the Salzburg Economy

literature

  • DavisKlemmGallery (ed.): Konrad Winter: Sensual certainty, Wiesbaden 2013
  • DavisKlemmGallery (Ed.): Konrad Winter: Camouflaged Paintings, Frankfurt 2009
  • Braunbehrens Gallery (Ed.): Konrad Winter: Camouflaged Landscape, Munich 2006
  • Bayerische Börse AG (Ed.): Konrad Winter, Münsterschwarzach 2004, ISBN 3-09-303372-1
  • Museum der Moderne Salzburg (Ed.): "Zum bild.metamorphose", Salzburg 2004
  • Kunstverein Deutschvilla (ed.): "Heimart", Strobl am Wolfgangsee 2004
  • Gallery 5020 (Ed.): Konrad Winter. Evening companion, Salzburg 2002
  • Galerie Oben (Ed.): Woodcut, catalog, Chemnitz 1990
  • Galerie Academia and Galerie Heimeshoff (eds.): Konrad Winter, catalog, Salzburg and Essen 1989

Web links

Commons : Konrad Winter  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Konrad Winter in the Traunkirchen Summer Academy
  2. ↑ Views of Konrad Winter's “Cell Structure” on the Freiburg University Hospital website ( memento of the original from 23 August 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uniklinik-freiburg.de
  3. ↑ Ludmila Vachtova . Roswitha Haftmann. Life and legacy . P. 106.
personal data
SURNAME Winter, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg , State of Salzburg , Austria