Kurt Kren

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Kurt Kren (born September 20, 1929 in Vienna ; † June 23, 1998 there ) was an Austrian avant-garde filmmaker .

biography

Kurt Kren was born in Vienna in 1929 as the son of a Jewish bank employee and a German mother. Kren lived in Rotterdam from 1939 until the end of the Second World War . In 1947 he returned to Vienna , where his father arranged for him a job at the National Bank .

Kurt Kren's film career began in the early 1950s when he was making experimental short films in the 8mm format. In 1957 he switched to 16 mm format.

In 1966 Kren took part in the symposium "Destruction in Art" in London . In 1968 he visited the United States for the first time , where he screened his films in New York and St. Louis . After participating in the “Art and Revolution” happening at the University of Vienna (1968), his films were confiscated by the police and Kren himself fired from the bank.

In 1970 Kren took part in the International Underground Film Festival in London and in 1971 in the Cannes Film Festival . He then moved to Cologne for five years . In 1977 he took part in documenta 6 in Kassel.

Retrospective screenings took place at London's National Film Theater in 1976 , and in 1978 and 1979 in New York's Museum of Modern Art .

From 1978 to 1989 Kurt Kren lived in the United States - partly in a car - where he traveled around the country, but also gave screenings and lessons at universities and film schools. Between 1983 and 1989 he worked as a security officer at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston .

In 1989 Kurt Kren returned to his hometown Vienna. During the 1990s his works were presented around the world, some of them in major museums and cultural institutions. Kren was a co-founder of the Vienna Institute of Direct Art and the Austrian Filmmakers Cooperative (AFC).

Kurt Kren died of pneumonia in Vienna in 1998 .

Awards

Filmography

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  • The Walk (1956)
  • Rome (fragment) (1956)
  • Piano Salon 1st floor (1956)
  • Mobiles (1957)
  • 1/57: Trial with synthetic clay (test) (1957)
  • 2/60: 48 heads from the Szondi test (1960)
  • 3/60: Autumn trees (1960)
  • 4/61: walls pos.-neg. and way (1961)
  • 5/62: Window viewer, garbage etc. (1962)
  • 6/64: Mama and Papa (Otto Mühl material campaign) (1964)
  • 7/64: Leda with the swan (1964)
  • 8/64: Ana - Aktion Brus (1964)
  • 9/64: O Tannenbaum (1964)
  • 10/65: self-mutilation (1965)
  • 10b / 65: Silver - Aktion Brus (1965)
  • 16/67: September 20 (1967)
  • 15/67: TV (1967)
  • 18/68: Veneciakaputt (1968)
  • 23/69: Underground Explosion (1969)
  • 26/71: Drawing film - Balzac and the Eye of God (1971)
  • 31/75: Asylum (1975)
  • 32/76: AnW + B (1976)
  • 33/77: No Danube
  • 34/77: Tschibo
  • 35/77: Dogumenta
  • 36/78: Rischart
  • 37/78: Tree Again (1978)
  • 40/81: Breakfast in the Gray (1981)
  • 39/81: Which Way to CA? (1981)
  • 41/82: Getting warm (1982)
  • No Film (1983)
  • 44/85: Foot'-age Shoot'-out (1985)
  • Trailer (1988)
  • A Feast (1991)
  • Thousand Year Cinema (1995)
  • 50/96 Snapspots (for Bruce) (1996)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Austrian Art Prize . Retrieved October 26, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Kren, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian avant-garde filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1998
Place of death Vienna , Austria