Kurt Ingerl

Plastic in front of St. Peter an der Sperr

Plastic stacking 1971/72 in Wiener Neustadt

Simple basic geometric shapes as computer art sculpture in St. Pölten

Kurt Ingerl (born May 28, 1935 in Ternitz ( Lower Austria ), † March 4, 1999 in Wiener Neustadt ) was an Austrian sculptor .

Life

After attending a humanistic grammar school in Wiener Neustadt, Ingerl studied painting, graphics, sculpture and teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 1953 to 1963 , as well as at the University of Vienna. From 1969 to 1972 he was an assistant for sculpture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna . As a member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus , he was Vice President of the Society of Fine Artists of Austria from 1977 until the end of his life. From 1988 he is also vice-president of the artists' association Wiener Neustadt and from 1992 president of the professional association of Austrian sculptors.

Although Ingerl did not have his own computer, with his constructivist computer graphics and the PC programs for his oversized sculptures, monuments and facade designs he was one of the pioneers of computer art in Austria. Ingerl uses a program based on an algorithm he has developed, which is initially implemented on paper and from 1974 onwards on the computer by the computer scientist Wolfgang Laun. The computer graphics experiment with simple basic geometric shapes and the relationship between figure and ground. These structures are implemented as mirrors, floor or facade designs, as well as three-dimensional sculptures in public spaces. In contrast to these strict, non-representational works are Ingerl's hyper-realistic sculptures of mostly extremely corset-laced female and male bodies, of which he made lifelike plaster casts using the moulage technique.

Ingerl lived in Wiener Neustadt and worked in Vienna. From 1986 he had a studio in Wiener Neustadt.

Kurt Ingerl is probably related to the Augsburg sculptor Ignaz Ingerl (1752–1800).

Awards

• 1962 Lower Austrian Promotion Prize, Large Gold Medal from the Regional Association of Lower Austrian Art Associations
• 1963 silver medal, Young Art '63
• 1977 Prize of the Santa Margharita Biennale, Italy
• Large gold medal from the Austrian Society of Fine Artists, Künstlerhaus, Vienna
• 1978 Grand Culture Prize of the Province of Lower Austria
• 1982 Golden Badge of Honor from the Künstlerhaus Vienna
• 1986 Culture Prize of the City of Wiener Neustadt
• 1990 professional title professor

Exhibitions

Extract from his exhibitions, he had a total of 37 solo exhibitions.

• 1958 Biennale dei Giovani, Gorizia, Italy
• 1964 Triennial for Color Graphics, Grenchen, Switzerland
• 1971 Graphic Biennial, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
• 1972 Biennale, Venice, Italy
• 1972–1978 Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, Paris, France
• 1973–1974 IKI, Düsseldorf, FRG
• 1974 Biennale, Meuton, France
• 1977 Geometrica, Tulln, Austria
• 1977 Biennale, Santa Margharita, Italy
• 1978 Salon Comparaison, Paris, France
• 1980 Festival International de la Peinture, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France
• 1982 FNAC CISI, Paris and
• 1982/83 traveling exhibition through France
• 1983 Gogol Boulevard, Moscow, USSR
• 1984 TV tower, Berlin, GDR
• 1985 Budapest, Hungary; Sofia, Bulgaria; Tbilisi, USSR;
• 1985 Sarajevo, Zagreb, Rijeka, Yugoslavia
• 1986 Wandspielwochen, Lower Austria
• 1992 European Art, Perspektiven '92, Garching near Munich, Germany
• since 1987 substantial participation in all exhibitions of the artists' association Wiener Neustadt, St. Peter an der Sperr , Karmeliterkirche, Wiener Neustadt, Lower Austria
• 1994 BIK - Michelangelo Buonarroti, Kurt Ingerl, Anton Kolig
• 1995 Krakoka Gallery
• 1998 Künstlerhaus Vienna

He was involved in exhibitions in Austria, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Yugoslavia, El Salvador, Belgium, France, England, Poland, Turkey, USSR, Bulgaria, Japan etc. His works are in Austrian, European and American, public and private collections, his large sculptures and wall designs adorned public and private buildings.

Monuments

• 1983 Memorial to Heimito von Doderer , Prein an der Rax, Lower Austria
• 1988 Memorial to Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen , Mühldorf, Lower Austria
• 1989 Monument to Jakob Prandtauer , St. Pölten, Lower Austria

literature

• Kurt Ingerl, Gerhard Habarta: Kurt Ingerl - loves tightly laced women to the square. Catalog for the exhibition, Künstlerhaus Vienna, August 28 to September 27, 1998, Vienna 1998.
• Johannes Köck: Kurt Ingerl, life and work part 1 - biography and computer art. Lower Austrian Cultural Forum, St. Pölten 2009.
• Johannes Köck: Kurt Ingerl. Life and Work Part 2 - Haptics and Fetishism. The correspondence with Michel Seuphor. Niederösterreichisches Kulturforum, Verlag Der Apfel, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85450-036-0 .

Web links

Commons : Kurt Ingerl  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Kurt Ingerl in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Kurt Ingerl in the database of the state's memory of the history of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )
• http://www.kurt-ingerl.com