Manfred Koutek

Manfred L. Koutek (born March 29, 1951 in Linz ) is an Austrian painter, draftsman and graphic artist .

Career

Manfred Ludwig Ernst Koutek was born as the son of a master builder in Linz / Upper Austria on March 29, 1951. He attended the Aloisianum (private high school - Jesuit) in Linz - Freinberg and was then trained as a construction technician at the HTL Linz.

Suffering from a lung disease, he had to complete a six-month hospital stay in Gmunden - Schloss Cumberland in 1971. He met the then 67-year-old painter and draftsman Ragimund Reimesch , who inspired him to become an artist. From then on, Koutek began to train himself in painting techniques. From 1974 to 1985 Manfred Koutek was a guest student at the University for Artistic and Industrial Design Linz with Alfred Billy and Dietmar Brehm .

In 1974 he started exhibiting in galleries, museums and cultural institutions around the world, and since 1978 he has been working exclusively as a freelance artist.

Koutek is a member of several art and cultural associations, partly also as president and vice-president. In 1982 Koutek founded his "ATELIER - GALERIE HOFBERG 10" in the center of the historic old town of Linz. Professional Association of Visual Artists of Upper Austria , Gallery Forum Wels, CdB Linz - Landeskulturzentrum Ursulinenhof u. a.

Manfred Koutek works in Linz ad Donau and Leonding (Upper Austria).

Solo exhibitions

1976 Oil paintings and drawings , gallery in the Blutgasse, Vienna
1976 Painting - Graphics , Schonhoff Gallery, Kassel
1976 Peinture et Dessin , Galerie Diana, Paris
1978 Painting and graphics , Gallery Peithner-Lichtenfels, Vienna
1978 painting and graphics , Nebbiensches Gartenhaus , Frankfurt am Main
1978 Painting and graphics , Small Gallery Vienna
1978 painting - graphics ; Gallery of the city of Wels Wels , city museum
1979 Oil collage graphics , Altstadt Galerie Stefan, Heidelberg
1980 Cosmic cycle , Nordico - Museum of the City of Linz
1980 painting and graphics ; Galerie Bartenstein, Vienna
1981 Palette 81 , gallery in the Traklhaus Salzburg
1984, 1988, 1993, Galerie Forum Wels
1986 Braunau am Inn district museum

1995 Ennsmuseum Kastenreith Weyer

1997 painting and graphics , gallery of the city of Traun

2004 Landeskulturzentrum Ursulinenhof Linz

2009 Abstract Surrealism & Romantic Naturalism - District Museum Herzogsburg Braunau am Inn

2009 retrospective and new works . Artpark Gallery, Linz

2009 Galerie Standl, Kunstpfad Bischofstrasse, Linz

2009 Mondsee Castle Gallery, Mondsee

2011 WIFI - Kunstkontakte, "Abstract Surrealism and Romantic Naturalism", (anniversary exhibition on the occasion of KOUTEK Manfred's 60th birthday), Linz

2011 Gallery Dr. Ernst Korff Foundation, "Jumps in the air and water games", Linz

2012 Artpark Gallery, “Thailand 2012 and New Works”, Linz

2013 44-er Haus, urban gallery Leonding, "Surreale Parallelwelten", Leonding Linz, Höhenrausch II, the KUNSTSAMMLUNG

2016 Lamberg Castle Gallery near Steyr

2016 Gallery of the City of Traun

Holdings

1986 United Art Gallery, Vienna
1988 A Danube Waltz , Gallery Onetwentyeight, New York City
1997 neighbors. Blickpunkt gallery, Linz
2002 Annual exhibition 2002. Wels Artists' Guild , Wels
2003 Wels artists' guild. Annual exhibition 2003. Galerie Forum, Wels
2007 MK + MK Manfred Koutek & Manfred Kielnhofer . Artpark Linz
2006 globe of integration. Artpark Linz
2009 discourses . Mondsee Castle Gallery
2009 Iberian art and garden opening. art.es_international_contemporary_art, España - Werkstatt Kollerschlag, Kollerschlag
2012 Künstlerhaus Vienna

Public collections

Art collection of the province of Upper Austria

Manfred Koutek's works are represented in many public collections at home and abroad, and his works are in private collections on all continents. . Since 1974, Koutek has sent around 300 exhibitions in museums, galleries and art institutions at home and abroad.

Web links

literature

Vienna. The "Sociale Reform" a newspaper from the turn of the century ... Contemporary painters see Vienna ... Catalog, 1986
Catalog Sculpture Park Artpark 2007 (PDF; 1.5 MB)

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Koutek, Manfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Koutek, Manfred L .; Koutek, Manfred Ludwig Ernst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 29, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH	Linz

[1] List of members of the Professional Association of Visual Artists Upper Austria

[2] Braunauer Stadtnachrichten Sep / Oct 2009, page 44 (PDF; 14.4 MB)

[3] Exhibition Galerie Artpark in Art Aspects, (catalog)

[4] Manfred Koutek in the art collection of the state of Upper Austria

[5] The "social reform". Catalog.