Mario Decleva

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Mario Decleva (born February 14, 1930 in Lussingrande , Kingdom of Yugoslavia (today: Veli Lošinj in Croatia ), † August 9, 1979 in Vienna ) was an Austrian academic painter , graphic artist and teacher .

Live and act

Mario Decleva was born on February 14, 1930 in today's Veli Lošinj on the Istrian island of Lošinj and came to Austria in 1945 - according to other sources not until 1947 - due to the war, where he settled in Graz and attended the arts and crafts school here (until 1949) . In addition, Decleva, who lived in Graz until 1965, attended the Graphic Education and Research Institute in Vienna , where he also attended the Academy of Fine Arts from 1949 to 1951 . From 1952 to 1958 he was a member of the Graz Secession and from 1960 a member of the Forum Stadtpark . In 1969 Decleva, who has lived in Vienna since 1965, became a member of the Vienna Secession . By Wilfried Skreiner Decleva was "one of the few really informal artists, not only in Styria" as designated. It is also reported that his strong intellect enabled him to develop his own formal language in a relatively short time and by dealing with the work of Paul Klee .

After he had made his first prints in 1952, he continued to develop his work. In his works, figural and vegetable structures mostly detached themselves from the formal structure, whereby the color is subtle and partly set in changing surfaces. The painting style he developed is mostly based on strong colors and tends towards the abstract . He often created pictures in oil and caparol , which, in terms of color and composition, show tectonically consolidated forms that have richly graduated and expressive colors. In 1965 Decleva became assistant to Carl Unger (1915–1995) at the Academy of Applied Arts Vienna , which was upgraded to a university in 1970 and renamed the University of Applied Arts in 1971 . Decleva received various awards and was honored several times throughout her life. Among other things, he received the silver medal of the City of Graz in 1952, was awarded the City of Innsbruck Prize for Graphics in 1956, 1957 and 1964 and received the Humanic Prize in 1961, the Joanneum Art Prize in 1963 and the Forum price. In 1975 he also received the City of Vienna Award for Fine Arts .

He worked closely with the architect Ferdinand Schuster (1920–1972), especially in the 1950s and 1960s, with the latter decade being his most productive and important period . Decleva was responsible for the glass work on the following buildings planned by Schuster: Parish Church Kapfenberg-Schirmitzbühel (1957), Cemetery Chapel Turnau (1958), School Chapel Hafendorf (1960) and Parish Church Kapfenberg-Hl. Family in Kapfenberg-Walfersam.

On August 9, 1979, Decleva died at the age of 49 in the Lainzer Hospital in the 13th district of Hietzing .

Even decades after his death, numerous exhibitions of his works took place, especially in Austria. For example, the Mario Decleva exhibition in the Hofstätter Gallery in Vienna, the Mario Decleva exhibition in the Leonhard Gallery in Graz or the Mario Decleva exhibition 1930–1979 in the Kunsthaus Mürzzuschlag .

Works (selection)

  • 1957: Glass window (antique glass) in the church at Schirmitzbühel in Kapfenberg
  • 1958: Glass window in the cemetery chapel in Turnau
  • 1960: Glass window (lead crystal) in the Hafendorf school chapel near Kapfenberg
  • 1961: Glass window in the Protestant Christ Church in Kapfenberg
  • 1962: Glass window in the parish church Kapfenberg-Hl. Family in Kapfenberg-Walfersam
  • 1963: Mosaics and wood inlays in the Redoutensaal in the Schauspielhaus Graz
  • 1964: Glass window in the staircase of the Styria printing and publishing house in Graz
  • 1979: Glass window in the meditation room of the UN City of Vienna
  • Tapestry in the foyer of the Leoben city hall

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions from 1960 (selection)

  • Gallery in the Greek pub
  • Galleria Numero in Rome
  • 1964: Forum Stadtpark in Graz
  • 1967/1968: Tour of an exhibition through North American colleges

Participation in exhibitions from 1950 (selection)

  • 1960: Graz (Humanic Prize)
  • 1963: Joanneum Graz (art award)
  • 1964: Graphics competition Innsbruck
  • 1965: Graphics Biennale Ljubljana
  • 1967: Graphics Biennale Ljubljana
  • 1968: Krakow
  • 1968: Tokyo
  • 1968: Municipal Gallery Bochum
  • Montclair
  • Salzburg
  • New York City
  • Gorizia
  • Paris
  • etc.

Works in collections (selection)

Awards (selection)

  • 1952: Silver medal from the city of Graz
  • 1956: Prize of the city of Innsbruck for graphics
  • 1957: Prize of the city of Innsbruck for graphics
  • 1961: Humanic Prize
  • 1963: Joanneum Art Prize
  • 1963: Forum Prize
  • 1964: Prize of the city of Innsbruck for graphics
  • 1975: Promotion Prize of the City of Vienna for Fine Arts

Literature (selection)

  • Decleva Mario. In: Rudolf Schmidt: Austrian Artist Lexicon. Volume 5. Tusch, Vienna 1979, pp. 391-392. (With further references)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mario Decleva on the official website of basis wien , accessed on August 24, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Decleva, Mario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter, graphic artist and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Lussingrande , Kingdom of Yugoslavia
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1979
Place of death Vienna