Kurt Spurey

Kurt Spurey (* 1941 in Mariazell ) is an Austrian ceramist .

Live and act

Spurey studied silicate technology at the technical and commercial college in Vienna and was entrusted with setting up and managing a design studio at ÖSPAG from 1968 to 1971 , before becoming a freelancer in 1971. From 1973 to 1975 he made a lecture tour in the USA , Canada and Israel and also taught there. From 1988 to 1989 he accepted a teaching position at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences in Krefeld . The artist is a member of the Künstlerhaus Wien and the artists' association MAERZ .

Works

Spurey's works can be found in a number of domestic and foreign public institutions: in the Museum of Applied Arts Vienna , the Albertina Vienna , the Hetjens Museum Düsseldorf, the Keramion Frechen, the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam , the Sprengel Museum Hannover , im Taipei Fine Arts Museum , the Kunstindustrimuseet Copenhagen , the Museo internazionale dell Ceramiche Faenza , the Museum of modern Ceramics Gifu and the Victoria & Albert Museum .

Awards

In 2010 he received the recognition award of the Salzburg Ceramic Prize and in 2012 the Golden Laurel of the Künstlerhaus Vienna.

Exhibitions (selection)

• Hellmut Bruch , Inge Dick , Kurt Spurey , March Gallery , 1994
• Looking Back on Krakow , Polish Cultural Institute, 1997
• Printmaking today , Lower Austrian Documentation Center for Modern Art , 1998
• ! Strict Chamber? Geometric abstraction in Viennese art , Museum on Demand (today: MUSA Museum Startgalerie Artothek) , 2000
• Changing form. Contemporary ceramics from Austria, Museum of Applied Arts Vienna , 2006
• Kurt Spurey. Sediments , MAK Permanent Collection Asia, Museum of Applied Arts Vienna, 2012

Web links

• Kurt Spurey, in: Basis wien's website

Individual evidence

1. ^ International Ceramic Museum in Faenza in the Italian Wikipedia
2. ↑ Kurt Spurey, Austria, Ceramic Art in: Web presence of European Ceramic Context 2014 ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. queried on January 18, 2016 
3. ↑ Ceramic Prize in: Web Presence of the State of Salzburg ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2016 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. queried on January 18, 2016 
4. ↑ Awards and honors , in: The website of the Künstlerhaus Wien requested on January 18, 2016