Leonhard Fink

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Leonhard Fink (born January 15, 1982 in Vienna ) is an Austrian visual artist . His oeuvre is received mainly from the point of view of art brut .

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Cartographic drawings are at the center of Leonhard Fink's work . The artist creates large-format map images with pencil , which are dedicated to individual countries, regions or cities. Fink gives detailed geographic features such as mountains and water, but also buildings and transport networks. He playfully alternates between different drawing perspectives, the two- and three-dimensionality of the depicted and different reading directions of the sheets, which result from turning the sheet during the drawing process. The artist supplements his dense and complex cartographic works with text elements that serve as identification and orientation aids for the viewer.

Biography and artistic career

Leonhard Fink was born on January 15, 1982 and grew up in Lower Austria with his parents and four siblings. He attended secondary school, then at the age of 17 received psychiatric treatment for the first time. Fink has been working in the open studio of the Art / Brut Center Gugging since 2001 . From 2007 onwards, representations of maps are the center of his artistic work. Fink has lived in the House of Artists since 2017 . His works are part of international exhibitions and collections.

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 2007: Art from within - Art Brut in Austria , Museumsquartier , Freiraum / quartier 21, Vienna.
  • 2010: gugging from vienna , Atelier Herenplaats , Rotterdam.
  • 2011: Homage to Art Brut , Galerie Rigassi, Bern.
  • 2013: small formats.! , museum gugging , Maria Gugging.
  • 2014: gugging masterpieces.! , museum gugging , Maria Gugging.
  • 2017: Living in Art Brut. 123 Works from the Hannah Rieger Collection , museumkrems , Krems; orchestra rehearsal, Koelsch Gallery , Houston, USA.
  • 2018–2021: brain feeling.! art from gugging from 1970 to the present , museum gugging , Maria Gugging.

literature

  • Leonhard Fink - conurbations , short portrait in: Klaus Dermutz : The journeys of Gerhard Roth: Explorations of a literary continent. Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-596-29736-8 ; limited preview in Google Book search.
  • Hannah Rieger, Heidemarie Dobner (Ed.): Living in Art Brut. 123 Works from the Hannah Rieger Collection, Vienna 2017.
  • Leonhard Fink , in: Johann Feilacher : gugging meisterwerke.!, Residenz Verlag, Salzburg 2014, ISBN 9783701733347 .
  • Leonhard Fink , in: Johann Feilacher: small formats.! Drawings by the artists from Gugging, Residenz Verlag, Salzburg 2013, ISBN 9783701733248 .
  • Leonhard Fink , in: Johann Feilacher (Ed.): Sovären. The House of Artists in Gugging, Edition Braus, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 9783899041279 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Nina Ansperger: Leonhard Fink . In: Nina Ansperger, Johann Feilacher (Ed.): Brain feeling.! Art from Gugging from 1970 to the present . 1st edition. Residenz Verlag, Salzburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-7017-3450-4 .
  2. ↑ Almuth Spiegler: Hannah Rieger: "Art brut is more than gugging". In: The press. September 8, 2017, accessed on March 19, 2019 (German).
  3. ^ Roman Gerold: Visiting the artists in Gugging. In: The Standard. August 2, 2018, accessed on March 19, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Fink, Leonhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna