Maria Baumgartner

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Maria Baumgartner

Maria Baumgartner (born March 13, 1952 in Königswiesen , Upper Austria) is an Austrian ceramic artist and art college teacher.

Live and act

Object "Umbal 2001"

Maria Baumgartner studied from 1972 to 1979 at the University of Artistic and Industrial Design Linz and graduated in 1980 with a diploma in ceramics (with Günter Praschak ) and the title Mag.a art . In 1980 she founded her studio near Lienz (East Tyrol) and worked there as a freelance ceramic artist until 2014 . From 1986 until the end of 2014 she also worked as an assistant, lecturer (from 1998) and professor (from 2000) at the University of Artistic and Industrial Design Linz , where she joined the Ao in 2002 . University Professor of Ceramics has been appointed. Since 2015 her studio and residence have been in Puchenau near Linz and in Tyros on the Peloponnese , where she has been working as a freelance artist ever since.

Maria Baumgartner between 2004 (after the retirement of the owner of professorship ceramic Günter Praschak (1972-2004) and to the appointment of Frank Louis (2008) as Professor of Ceramics) master class pottery and the study of ceramics at the art University of and industrial design Linz managed on an interim basis.

She has won ceramic prizes and awards in Austria, Germany, Croatia, Lithuania and Hungary (see below), and has so far held 32 personal exhibitions and 112 group exhibitions in Austria, Germany, the Czech Republic , Italy , France , Belgium , Spain , Denmark and Lithuania , Hungary , Japan , Korea , Croatia and Egypt , as well as Latvia , Switzerland , the USA and Turkey .

Her works can be found in museums and public and private art collections in Austria, Germany, France, Switzerland, Holland, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Croatia, Korea, Japan and the USA.

She was and is also the curator of various exhibitions in the context of work at the University of Artistic and Industrial Design Linz , such as exhibitions as part of the “Akzente” exhibition program at the Gmunden Ceramic Weeks , or for the touring exhibitions of the Nö.-Art ( Lower Austrian Society for Art and Culture) 1993–2005. She also acted as a juror for ceramics and design prizes , such as the State Prize for Design and Crafts , the Salzburg Ceramics Prize and the Gmunden Ceramics Symposium . In addition, she is also active as a scientific author in the field of ceramic art (see publications section below) and as a reviewer for the accreditation of ceramic courses in Austria and Germany.

Maria Baumgartner is a member of the Tyrolean Artists' Association and the Salzburg Art Association .

To the work

According to the assessment of critics and specialist colleagues within modern ceramics, Maria Baumgartner's work is characterized by an independent formal language that develops the basic ceramic shape of the vessel into sculptural objects by playing with seemingly geometrical shapes and abstract, painterly design of the surfaces. Artist colleague Marga Persson writes :

“The flowing transition between vessel and sculpture, which is increasingly expressed in her work, is based on the intensive preoccupation with space and spatial dynamic aspects of three-dimensionality ... Maria Baumgartner experimentally plays with phenomena of balance and gravity and thus creates shapes surprising independence ... The cavity, the space in the bowl ... develops a matter of course that one can remain untouched and empty. The vessel thus loses its function as such ... The transformation into a sculptural object is inherent in Maria Baumgartner's vessel forms ... In her newer objects, the sculptural aspect is (even) more clearly illustrated ... A clear characteristic of the artistic direction ... is (it), a valid one To create a connection between sculptural form and a surface designed with artistic means ... She understands ceramics as an artistic means of expression that she masters in a stupendous manner without getting lost in repetitions ... With the independent vessel-sculptural form development and the painterly-sculptural form formulation she is one of the most important representatives of plastic-ceramic art in Austria. "

The following selection from Maria Baumgartner's works should illustrate this a little. While earlier works still refer to the interpretation of classic shapes, such as the bowl or cylinder shape (see Fig. 1, Fig. 2), more complex, rather thin-walled wave shapes with differentiated surface glaze developed as a result (Fig. 3, Fig . 4). Since the early 2000s, thick-walled vessel sculptures have been added that experiment with straight angles and partly. reminiscent of architectural forms (Fig. 5, Fig. 6). The latest works dissolve this severity and offer a free play with form, glaze and color (Fig. 7, Fig. 8).

  • Fig. 1 bowl 1982

  • Fig. 2 Dreipass 1991 (State Prize)

  • Fig. 3 Dunes 1996

  • Fig. 4 Blue and Lines 1998

  • Fig. 5 House I & II 2010

  • Fig. 6 1000 grams 2012

  • Fig. 7 waves 2016

  • Fig. 8 Last Night's Painting 2016/2017

Prizes, awards, invitations (selection)

Exhibitions (selection)

Personal exhibitions (selection)

  • 1981 Maria Baumgartner: ceramics; Anton Baumgartner: Sculpture in wood and stone , gallery of the city of Lienz (with Anton Baumgartner );
  • 1983 Forum Avant-garde Art : Ceramics , Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac , Lienz / A (with Barbara Reisinger );
  • 1984 Maria Baumgartner: ceramics and porcelain , Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac , Lienz;
  • 1986 porcelain, sculptures, ceramics , gallery "L" in the Heine-Haus (Hamburg) (with Barbara Reisinger [porcelain] and Nelly Sarmiento [sculptures]);
  • 1992 Maria Baumgartner - ceramics , gallery in the Museum Schloss Bruck (Lienz) ;
  • 1992 Maria Baumgartner and Barbara Reisinger: ceramics , gallery “L” in the Heine-Haus (Hamburg) (with Barbara Reisinger );
  • 1993 Vases and Colors , Felice Figl Gallery, Linz;
  • 1996 Landscape, light clays , Ceramic Arts Gallery, Vienna;
  • 1996 works in clay , gallery in Looshaus , Vienna (with Barbara Reisinger );
  • 2000 ceramic objects and sculptures , Kammerhof Gallery, Gmunden;
  • 2001 Ceramics: Kasbah series. Series twists. Orcas , Tyrolean Art Pavilion , Innsbruck;
  • 2005 Maria Baumgartner: New Ceramic Works , Galerie Felice Figl, Linz;
  • 2010 A Plentiful Portion - Ceramic Objects , Gallery Kulturkeller Schloss Dobersberg, Dobersberg / Lower Austria / A .;
  • 2015–2018 Maria Baumgartner - New Ceramics & Ceramics from 4 Decades , Days of the Open Studio in Upper Austria, organized by the Art Collection of the State of Upper Austria, Atelier Maria Baumgartner, Puchenau / A;

Participation in exhibitions (selection)

  • 1981 Austrian ceramics 1900–1980 , City Museum Nordico Linz ; Museum of Applied Arts (Vienna)
  • 1984 12 ceramicists from Austria , Galerie Ludwig "GKP" (glass, ceramics, porcelain), Hanover
  • 1986 European contemporary ceramics , Keramion Museum, Frechen b. Cologne .
  • 1985/1987 Contemporary ceramics in Austria , traveling exhibition of the Austrian gallery for ceramics (Vienna, Coburg & Düsseldorf / D., Brussels, Istanbul, Copenhagen)
  • 1989 L'Europe des Ceramistes. Actualité de la Céramique Européenne , Abbaye Saint-Germain d'Auxerre / FRA (including places).
  • 1990 Exhibition in Prague-Linz , Hipp-Halle, Gmunden / Upper Austria (»Akzente« for the 2nd Gmunden Ceramic Weeks );
  • 1991 Ceramic as a passion. Collection of Prof. Cornelius Ouwehand , Museum Bellerive Zurich;
  • 1992 Le Bol aux quatre coins de la terre (= The bowl from all four corners of the world) , Galerie Leonelli, Lausanne / CH;
  • 1993-1995 ceramics. New positions , traveling exhibition of the NöART (Nö. Ges. Für Kunst & Kultur), in cooperation with the University of Applied Arts Vienna , exhibitions a. a. in: Raabs an der Thaya , Zwettl Abbey , Bozen (Prisma Gallery), Gmunden (Kammerhofgalerie), Klagenfurt (Stadthaus Gallery). Vienna ( University of Applied Arts Vienna ). u. a. Places;
  • 1994 The 2nd Cairo International Biennale for Ceramics , Zamalek Art Gallery, Cairo / EGY.
  • 1996 20th century ceramics. Ingrid and Rudolf Welle collection , Städtische Galerie, Paderborn / FRG.
  • 1996 Contemporary ceramics in Austria , art collection of the Veste Coburg / FRG (including locations);
  • 1998 International Contemporary Ceramics from the Igal and Diane Silber Collection , Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach / Cal. UNITED STATES;
  • 2000 The world of vessels. Contemporary ceramics. Rudolf Strasser Collection , Museum in the Cloister, Landshut / FRG.
  • 2001 SOFA 2001 (3rd Exhibition of Sculpture, Objects & Functional Art - SOFA; presented by the gallery "b15 - Renate Wunderle", Munich ), traveling exhibition, New York / NY USA (The 7th Regiment Armory), Chicago / Ill. USA ( The Chicago Navy Pier);
  • 2003–2004 all ceramics - new works , traveling exhibition of the NöART (Nö. Ges. Für Kunst & Kultur), Krems an der Donau (Weinstadt-Museum Dominikanerkirche); Purgstall an der Erlauf (museum in the Ledererhaus); Gmunden (Kammerhof Gallery); Klagenfurt (Alpen-Adria-Galerie); Pulkau (Pöttingerhof); Ziersdorf (culture & communication center), u. a. Places;
  • 2005 Időben – Térben – Tűzben / In time – In space – In fire , The ICS Gallery (Museion No. 1) & Budapesti Történeti Múzeum (BTM) Galéria (Budapest Historical Museum Gallery), Budapest ;
  • 2007 Modern Ceramics from Central Europe - A Focus on Hungary, the Czech Republic and Greater Central Europe , Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu Province, JAP;
  • 2009 SOKU - Social and Art , member exhibition of the Tyrolean artists in the Tyrolean Art Pavilion, Innsbruck ;
  • 2010 Today and Tomorrow - Clay and Porcelain , Galerie Freihausgasse [= Gallery of the City of Villach], Villach ;
  • 2012 1000 grams , Gallery for Applied Art, Bavarian Arts and Crafts Association , Munich ;
  • 2016 Heritage and Diversity. East and West Invitational Ceramic Exhibition , Hanyang University Museum, Seoul / South Korea ;
  • 2016 Latvia International Ceramics Biennale / »MARTINSONS AWARD« contest exhibition , Marka Rotko mākslas centrs (Mark Rothko Art Center), Daugavpils / Latvia.
  • 2017 Ceramic out of passion [II] - Günter Praschak and students: Maria Baumgartner, Martina Funder, Margarete Geffke, Gabriele Hain, Ingrid Miura-Grininger, Barbara Reisinger , Nö. Documentation Center for Modern Art, St. Pölten (parallel exhibition to " Kurt Ohnsorg - Ceramics from Passion [I]").
  • 2017 Izstāde Kolekcija - Latvijas starptautiskā keramikas biennāle (The Collection. Latvia international ceramics biennale) , Rīgas mākslas telpa ( Riga Art Space), Riga / Latvia .
  • 2018 KUNSTradln in Millstatt (6th and 10th station) (including Josef Floch , Franz Kaindl , Edith Kramer , Robert Oltay , Veronika Dirndorfer), Hotel am See “Die Forelle” and Lindenhof Gallery in Millstatt , art exhibition in 25 stations May - October 2018.
  • 2018 Small formats really big , Lindenhof Gallery Millstatt am See (with Lisa Kunit , Katja Praschak , Thomas Laubenberger-Pletzer , Ulrich Plieschnig )
  • 2019-2020 Paroda Keramiada. Trys Panevėžio tarptautinio keramikos simpoziumo dešimtmečiai / Three Decades of Panevėžys International Ceramic Symposium , Panevėžio miesto dailės galerija / Panevėžys Civic Art Gallery, Panevėžys / Lithuania
  • 2020 KUNSTradln in Millstatt (9th and 14th station) , Millstatt Abbey, cloister and Gasthof Lindenhof in Millstatt , art exhibition in 17 stations July - November 2020.
  • 2020 GRACIS 2020 (Ceramics from Germany, Romania, Austria, Croatia, Italy, Slovenia), Zvonimir Gallery, Zagreb.

Publications (selection)

From Maria Baumgartner

  • The Austria side: »You have to go to the workshop«. About Franz Josef Altenburg . In: Neue Keramik , 3rd year 1989, No. 5, September / October, pp. 583-584.
  • Ceramicists in Salzburg. In: Barbara Wally (ed.): Artists in Salzburg. Salzburg Museum for Art and Cultural History Carolino Augusteum, Salzburg 1991, ISBN 3-901014-08-X , pp. 83–98.
  • Ceramics in Austria - Survival in the Invisible. In: European ceramics from 13 countries. Kunsthalle Osnabrück (exhibition catalog). Verlag Rasch, Bramsche / BRD 1998, ISBN 3-932147-47-2 , pp. 120-123.
  • (Ed.) New fire. An exhibition project of ceramics at the University for Artistic and Industrial Design Linz 1999/2000. University for Artistic and Industrial Design Linz, Linz 1999, ISBN 3-901112-16-2 .
  • (Ed.) Indoor - Outdoor. Pottery in the garden. A project by the Art University Linz and the West Hungarian University of Sopron. University for Artistic and Industrial Design Linz, Linz 2003.
  • (Ed.) Linzer himself. An exhibition of the University of Art Linz - Ceramics course / An Exhibition of the University of Art Linz - Institute of ceramics. German Porcelain Museum , Hohenberg ad Eger & Selb / FRG 2006, ISBN 3-927793-94-9 .

About Maria Baumgartner

  • Heimo Kuchling : Contemporary Austrian Ceramists. In: Ceramics - Publication for potters, collectors and museums, No. 9/1980 [special issue “Workshops and Ceramic Artists Austria”, on the occasion of the World Ceramic Congress, Vienna 1980], pp. 33–64.
  • Český porcelán as: Tradition and Possibilities. In: Neue Glas-Revue: Zeitschrift für Glas, Porzellan und Keramik / New Glass Review: Glass, China and Ceramics Magazine , No. 9-10 / 1994, pp. 11-18.
  • Rudolf Schnyder: Europäische Keramik 1996. In: Bulletin [der] Keramik-Freunde der Schweiz, issue 48/1996, pp. 15-23.
  • Stephen Sokoloff : The power of scorched earth. Portrait of the ceramic artist Maria Baumgartner. In: Welt der Frau, No. 7–8 / 2000, pp. 28–29.
  • Edith Schlocker: Painted clay rooms. Maria Baumgartner creates her sculptures from clay. To be seen in the Tyrolean art pavilion. In: Tiroler Tageszeitung, October 3, 2001, p. 6.
  • Kunstaspekte / Art aspects: Member exhibition - drawing boundaries? In: Art Aspects (newsletter online). 2007.
  • Billa Reitzner: 1000 grams of clay: what can arise from it / 1,000 grams of clay, and what you can make with them. In: Neue Keramik / New Ceramics , No. 3/2012, p. 54.

Web links

Commons : Maria Baumgartner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Maria Baumgartner, Austrian ceramist. In: Andreas Beyer (Hrsg.): General artist dictionary . Volume 7: Barbieri-Bayona. Verlag Saur / Thieme, Munich et al. 1993, p. 43; and Baumgartner Maria, f., ceramist. In: Sven Koch (Red.): Who is who in Contemporary Ceramic Arts , Waldrich Verlag, Munich 1996, p. 217.
  2. ↑ see the list of members of the Tiroler Künstlerschaft ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on February 25, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / kuenstlerschaft.at
  3. ↑ Days of the Open Studio in Upper Austria 2015: Participants in the Urfahr-Umgebung district ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on March 5, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.land-oberoesterreich.gv.at
  4. ↑ See overall the entry Maria Baumgartner in the database of the Ars Panevėžys / LIT ( memento of the original from February 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on February 25, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / arspanevezys.lt
  5. ↑ z. B. in the art collections of the federal government and the states of Salzburg, Tyrol and Upper Austria (artists in the Upper Austrian art collection ( Memento of the original from March 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked - and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. , queried on March 12, 2016), as well as in the Museum of Applied Arts (Vienna) . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.diekunstsammlung.at
  6. ↑ z. B. in the Rudolf Strasser collections The world of vessels , Landshut 2000, p. 94, p. 121 , queried on March 12, 2016, Ingrid and Rudolf Welle Keramik des 20. Century. Welle Collection , Cologne 1996, pp. 142-143, p. 295 , consulted on March 12, 2016, and in the Museum Keramion (Cremer Collection)
  7. ↑ Collection of the Musée national de Céramique - Sèvres / FRA, consulted March 11, 2016.
  8. ↑ Collection of the University of the Arts , Zurich / CH , queried on March 10, 2016.
  9. ^ Collection of Prof. Cornelis Ouwehand Heiloo / NED, requested on March 12, 2016.
  10. ^ Collection of the International Ceramic Studio , Kecskemét / HUN, accessed on March 10, 2016.
  11. ↑ Collection of the Civic Art Gallery Panevezys ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on March 12, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / arspanevezys.lt
  12. ^ Collection in the Slavonski Brod Regional Museum , requested on March 11, 2016.
  13. ↑ Collection of the Museum of Modern Ceramic Art ( Memento of the original from March 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Tajimi / Gifu Province / JAP, accessed on March 12, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cpm-gifu.jp
  14. ^ Igal & Diane Silber Collection , Laguna Beach (California) , accessed on March 12, 2016.
  15. ↑ 3 exhibitions took place here, which were co-designed and curated by Maria Baumgartner.
  16. ↑ Ceramics and glass courses on the so-called Westerwald Campus of the Koblenz University of Applied Sciences , requested on October 12, 2019.
  17. ^ Marga Persson: Opening of the exhibition Maria Baumgartner - Landscape, light tones (Gallery “Ceramic Arts”, Vienna, September 11, 1996) , text on the sheet attached to the invitation folder; see. also documents in the database "basis Vienna" queried on March 9, 2016
  18. ↑ See Walter Beyer: State Culture Prize and Talent Promotion Awards for Fine Art 1986. In: Upper Austrian Culture Report. 41. Vol. 3, 1987, pp. 1-3
  19. ↑ see the list of state prizes of the Republic of Austria . The 1991 prize: KG Nicola: Austrian State Prize '91 / Art and Crafts Austria: In Search of Vision. In: Arts and Crafts. No. 5, Sept./Oct. 1991, pp. 35-39
  20. ↑ ULUPUH (Association of Artists of Applied Arts in Croatia) (Ed.): 4th World Triennial Exhibition of Small Ceramics: Catalog. Zagreb / ​​CRO 1993, p. 36
  21. ↑ Jolanta Lebednykiene: Panevėžio tarptautiniai keramikos simpoziumai / International Ceramic Symposiums 1996–2006: katalogas / catalog. Panevėžio miesto savivaldibe, Panevėžys / LIT 2007, ISBN 978-9986-742-04-3 , p. 33, p. 118
  22. ↑ The country's ceramic prizes presented . In: Salzburger Landeskorrespondenz. Queryed on February 25, 2016
  23. ↑ Volker Ellwanger: FORM AND GLAZE - a review. Hoechst AG, Frankfurt am Main 2000 (text supplement to the invitation FORM UND GLASUR 2000, Jahrhunderthalle Frankfurt)
  24. ^ Poster for the exhibition in Schloss Bruck in the picture archive of the Austrian National Library, requested on March 7, 2016.
  25. ^ Archiv Kulturkeller Dobersberg: Invitation to the exhibition of the same name , requested on February 28, 2016.
  26. ↑ Information on the days of the Upper Austria Open Atelier , requested on October 13, 2019.
  27. ↑ Stadtmuseum Nordico Linz (ed.), Waltraud Neuwirth (red.): Austrian ceramics 1900–1980. Stadtmuseum Nordico Linz 1981 (catalogs of the Stadtmuseum Linz No. 24), p. 33.
  28. ↑ see Nikolaus Ludwig: 12 women ceramists from Austria: Maria Baumgartner; Veronika Pöschl; Barbara Reisinger; Helga Eschlböck; Martina Funder u. a., Hanover 1984: Galerie Ludwig;
  29. ↑ see Keramion - Museum f. Contemporary Ceramic art (ed.): European ceramics of the present: second international exhibition in the Keramion. Greven & Bechthold, Cologne 1986, pp. 30-31, pp. 184-185, p. 325.
  30. ↑ s. Austrian Gallery for Ceramics (1985): Contemporary Ceramics in Austria, Vienna 1985, pp. 6 & 20; ISBN 3-900552-01-0 .
  31. ↑ see Societe d'Encouragement aux Metiers d'Art (SEMA) (ed.): L'Europe des ceramistes. (= Special issue of the magazine Metiers d'Art ). Paris 1989, ISSN 0152-2418, p. 38, p. 176.
  32. ^ National Center for Fine Arts (NCFA), Ministry for Culture, Arab Republic of Egypt (ed.): The 2nd Cairo International Biennale for Ceramics: Catalog , Kairo 1994, p. 62.
  33. ↑ Ekkart Klinge, Gisela Jahn, Ingrid and Werner Welle collection (eds.): Ceramics of the 20th century. Collection wave . Dumont-Verlag , Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-7701-3859-7 , p. 18, pp. 142-143, p. 295.
  34. ↑ Ekkart Klinge (ed.), Franz Niehoff (ed.): The world of vessels. Contemporary ceramics. Rudolf Strasser Collection. Museums of the City of Landshut, Landshut / FRG 2000, ISBN 3-924943-17-6 , p. 94, p. 121.
  35. ↑ Billa Reitzner: 1000 grams of clay: what can come of it . In: Neue Keramik / New Ceramics, No. 3/2012, p. 54; also online ( memento of the original from March 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. queried on March 7, 2016; @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.neue-keramik.de
  36. ↑ [Department of Applied Art Education, Hanyang University (ed.): "East and West Invitational Ceramic Exhibition: Heritage and Diversity" (Catalog), Seoul / KOR 2016: Hanyang University Museum]
  37. ↑ Information on the Martinsons Award and the exhibition , requested on December 21, 2016.
  38. ↑ Invitation to “Ceramics from Passion - Günter Praschak and Schoolgirls” , requested on April 14, 2018.
  39. ^ Report on the exhibition Kurt Ohnsorg - Ceramics from Passion , requested on April 14, 2018.
  40. ↑ Report Kleinformate_ganz_groß in "My District" (Spittal / Drau) , queried April 17, 2019.
  41. ↑ Exhibition announcement , requested June 21, 2019.
  42. ↑ Information about the GRACIS exhibition in Zagreb , requested on August 16, 2020
  43. ↑ Online publication Selber Linzer. queried on February 27, 2016.
  44. ↑ also accessible online, queried on February 28, 2016.
  45. ↑ also accessible online, queried on February 28, 2016.
  46. ↑ Art aspects queried online on February 28, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Baumgartner, Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ceramist and art college teacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Königswiesen , Upper Austria