Leander Kaiser

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Leander Kaiser (born July 2, 1947 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian painter.

Life

Leander Kaiser grew up together with his twin brother Konstantin Kaiser as the son of Innsbruck municipal councilor Maria Kaiser and the Tyrolean state party secretary of the SPÖ and former "Revolutionary Socialist" Ferdinand Kaiser in Innsbruck. Leander Kaiser showed artistic talent at an early age, a first cycle of pen drawings for the Book of Job was exhibited as early as 1964. Kaiser first studied in Vienna at the Academy of Fine Arts . However, he fell out with his teacher and mentor Max Weiler . In 1967, he countered the turn to abstraction with a painting that was inspired by the Cubo-Futurism of the classical modernism de Chirico and the early Renaissance. As a result, Kaiser left the academy and began to study sociology and then philosophy (dissertation, completed in 1979, on the problem of the general human in Hegelian aesthetics ). From 1967 to 1969, under the strong influence of Karl Kraus , he edited the youth magazine Frontal , which saw itself as an organ of the relatively weak 1968 movement in Vienna. In 1970 he was sentenced to parole for a polemical article about the Catholic Church. In 1969, together with Robert Schindel , his brother Konstantin and others, he founded the “Hundsblume” group, which saw itself as a political, artistic and theoretical community in opposition to the student movement's activism (magazines and book editions of “Hundsblume” 1970–1972). Encounter with Elfriede Jelinek . At the end of 1972 the group disbanded and Leander Kaiser, like most of the other “Hundblümler”, was involved in the Marxist-Leninist ( Maoist ) movement until its disintegration in 1979/80. In addition, librarian in the public libraries of the municipality of Vienna. Since 1976 he has been living in a community with the painter Hildegard Stöger. In 1981 he resumed the artistic activity that had been largely interrupted since 1972 and became a freelance artist in 1984. 1983 encounter with the South Tyrolean writer Anita Pichler . From 1985 regular exhibitions in the Galerie Thomas Flora and later in the Galerie Maier in Innsbruck, from 1990 in the Galerie Peithner-Lichtenfels and in the Galerie Lehner in Vienna. 1986 Solo exhibition at the Austrian Belvedere Gallery . Lectures at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and at the University of Klagenfurt. Participation in international symposia in Moscow, Vienna and Innsbruck. Curatorial and editorial work since 2003.

Peter Weiermair about Leander Kaiser: “Thomas Trummer, an author who has dealt intensively with Leander Kaiser's work, once formulated the artist's intention as follows: 'The search for the general, in which the special is reflected, for a place which cannot be fixed, and after a period of time that has no duration are the artist's guiding ideas. '"

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SURNAME Kaiser, Leander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck