Leo Wollner (Designer)

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Leo Wollner (born July 29, 1925 in Vienna ; † February 20, 1995 there ) was an Austrian textile designer .

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Leo Wollner received his technical training from 1939 to 1942 at the Federal Training and Research Institute for the Textile Industry in Vienna. From 1942 he studied at the Academy of Applied Arts Vienna with Eduard Josef Wimmer-Wisgrill (Department of Fashion Textiles). At the end of his studies, Leo Wollner received the Prize of the University of Applied Arts in 1949 . Since 1947 he has been a freelancer in the Vienna Artists Workshop Association under the direction of Professor Josef Hoffmann .

From 1950 Leo Wollner worked as a freelance designer together with his wife Gretl, who was also a student of Prof. Wimmer-Wisgrill.

Together they received numerous prizes and awards:

  • 1951: IX. Triennial Milan: silver medal
  • 1953: Int. Carpet Competition Detroit USA: 1st and 2nd prize
  • 1953: Wall Covering American Institute of Decorators: 2 honorable mentions
  • 1954: Xth Milan Triennial: Gold medal
  • 1957: XI. Triennial Milan: Prize of the textile competition

In 1957 Leo Wollner was appointed to the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart , where he took over the management of the textile department. In the decades of its activity, the department gained international renown, most recently with the introduction of a diploma for the "Textile Design" course in 1977.

Leo Wollner and Gretl Wollner worked with numerous architects on the textile and color design of theaters, hotels, public and private buildings:

1958 Festspielhaus Salzburg - entire textile design (stage curtains, chair covers, wall coverings, carpets, etc.) with architect Clemens Holzmeister .

In 1959 Leo Wollner received the City of Vienna Prize for Fine Arts in the Applied Arts category.

Other prizes and exhibitions

  • 1958/59: Exhibition “leo wollner textielontwerper”, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
  • 1959: Exhibition “grete und leo wollner” in the Museum of Applied Arts Vienna
  • 1959: Exhibition of the State Trade Museum in Stuttgart
  • 1961: XII. Triennial Milan: silver medal
  • 1966: Faenza Prize, Italy: porcelain decoration
  • 1966: United Carpet Trades, London 1st Prize (Gretl Wollner)

Another important aspect of the work of Leo and Gretl Wollner was their work as a textile designer with well-known German and international manufacturers such as B. PAUSA AG / Mössingen or KNOLL international . It was u. a. Prof. Leo Wollner developed a new printing technique that allowed for new large repeat prints. In 1971 he received the Knoll International USA award for his “Sling” curtain fabric .

The artistic works were exhibited in further solo exhibitions in Amsterdam, Linz, Munich, Stuttgart, Rotterdam and Vienna.

From 1980 to 1994 numerous exhibitions took place in the Wollner Showroom 1010 Vienna, Grünangergasse 1.

Leo Wollner died unexpectedly in 1995, he was buried at the Hietzingen cemetery.

Gretl Wollner died in 2006.

Among the well-known students of Leo Wollner is u. a. his successor at the chair for textile design at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart Karl Höing .

literature

  • Between industry and art . Special show at the Design Center Stuttgart, February 19 to April 25, 1976 [Ed .: Textile Department of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, headed by Leo Wollner. Texts: Ferdinand Schäfer; Ernst Josef Auer; Wolfgang Kermer ]. Stuttgart: Design Center Stuttgart, 1976 (loose text and color plates, some with original textile samples, in folder)
  • Wolfgang Kermer : The professors of the graphic design, interior architecture and design departments: Ade, Brudi, Bruse, Franz, Heinle, Henning, Jacki, Klink, Kröplien, Lehmann, Mohl, Stadelmaier, Stemshorn, Votteler, Weidemann, Witzemann, Wollner . State Art University Weeks Baden-Baden, 5. – 21. June 1981. State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1981, pp. 5, 77–81.
  • Jutta Beder : Between Blümchen and Picasso. Textile design of the fifties in West Germany. Münster 2002, p. 213 f.
  • Donation Wolfgang Kermer: inventory catalog . Municipal Gallery Neunkirchen. [Catalog: Wolfgang Kermer; Nicole Nix-Hauck] Neunkirchen 2011, ISBN 978-3-941715-07-3 , pp. 174-175.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Kermer : Data and images on the history of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart . Edition Cantz, Stuttgart 1988 (= improved reprint from: The State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart: a self-portrayal . Edition Cantz, Stuttgart 1988), o. P. [p. 15]
  2. ↑ A highlight in the series of numerous public appearances by the textile department was the exhibition “Between Industry and Art”, which took place after Stuttgart (1976) from June 22 to July 31, 1977 in the Vienna Museum of Applied Arts , cf. Akademie-Mitteilungen 8: State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart: for the period from June 1, 1976 to October 31, 1977. Ed. By Wolfgang Kermer, State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, Stuttgart, March 1978, p. 133, fig. P. 37. - Wolfgang Kermer: "1968" and the reform of the academy: from the student unrest to the reorganization of the Stuttgart academy in the 1970s. (= Contributions to the history of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart . 8). Cantz Ostfildern-Ruit 1998, ISBN 3-89322-446-7 , pp. 59-61. (Reprint of the foreword by Wolfgang Kermer to the Vienna exhibition catalog 1977)
  3. ^ Vienna in retrospect - reports from April 1959
  4. ↑ Leo wollner textielontwerper , Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 19 dec '58 - 25 jan '59, cat. no.197 (with original fabric samples)
personal data
SURNAME Wollner, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian textile designer
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 1995
Place of death Vienna