Mano H. Lindner

Horst Lindner ("Mano") (born October 4, 1953 in Graz , Styria , † October 28, 2001 in Vienna ) was an Austrian painter and sculptor .

Life

Mano H. Lindner, 1986

From 1970 to 1975 Lindner attended the Graz School of Applied Arts . He then studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna until 1980 . There he held a teaching position from 1982 to 1984. He then worked as a freelance artist. Until 1987 he worked in a studio on Zimmermanngasse in Vienna. In the years up to 1986 he worked in a studio in Falkenstein , Lower Austria , before he worked in Herrnbaumgarten until his death in 2001 . Lindner also acted as artistic director of the Caritas home in Retz between 1991 and 2001 .

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“Symbolically condensed images and sculptures reduced to the essentials of touching intensity and great sensuality, which demand exactly what they are ready to convey from their viewer, a completely extraordinary level of sensitivity. Always strict in terms of form and a tremendously exciting range of encrypted messages in terms of content, Lindner's unobtrusive yet moving creations are among the most expressive that Austrian contemporary art has to offer. "

- Florian Falk

As early as the 1980s, Mano H. Lindner was one of the great young hopes on the Austrian art scene. He won several competitions (e.g. Prize of the State of Carinthia at the 21st Austrian Graphics Competition, 1988) and was able to attract the attention of the art scene with highly acclaimed solo and group exhibitions. Just as he was preparing to establish himself in the Austrian art scene and to become a fixture, he was gripped by doubts about getting caught up in the constraints, necessities and concessions. Step by step he withdrew to his studio in northern Lower Austria and only after several years could his friends persuade him to exhibit again.

From 1991 he took over the artistic supervision of intellectually handicapped people in the Caritas Home Retz and tried hard to make the results of this work accessible to the public. The works of the Retz artists were presented in large exhibitions.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

• 1986: Graz, New Gallery at the Landesmuseum Joanneum, corner hall, on the occasion of the Styrian Autumn
• 1987: Vienna, Gallery "20th Century Art"
• 1988: Alte Schmiede funding gallery
• 1998: Forum Schloss Wolkersdorf, Marek rooms, “Deviant in the country”, Siebenhirten, Kulturstadl
• 2000: Aktion Museum M, Barockschlößl Mistelbach, blue-yellow quarter gallery of the Lower Austrian cultural department, "This is how I am and stay cheerful"
• 2001: Exhibition for the opening of the law firm Muhri & Werschitz, Neutorgasse Graz
• 2003: Sculptures - Pictures, Herrnbaumgarten, Lower Austria
• 2010: "kunst @ falkenstein", Falkenstein, Lower Austria

Exhibition participation (excerpt)

• 1986: Budapest, Müscsarnok, "Back to Color"
• 1988: Vienna Volksgarten, "Querfeld I"
• 1997: Forum Schloss Wolkersdorf, "Or rather - Rockfall"
• 2000: Aktion Museum M, Barockschlößl Mistelbach, blue-yellow quarter gallery of the Lower Austrian cultural department, "Landauf"

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• Mano H. Lindner Art and Research Database - basis wien
• Mano H. Lindner KulturServerGraz