Matthäus Fellinger

Matthäus Fellinger (born June 11, 1924 in Neukirchen an der Vöckla ; † May 12, 2002 in Linz ) was an Austrian painter , ceramist and draftsman .

Live and act

Matthäus Fellinger's first ceramic studio was located in the listed Gerstlhaus in the 1950s

The artist had been deaf from the age of 16 as a result of meningitis . He completed his ceramist apprenticeship in Gmunden and was trained as a ceramic painter from 1941 to 1944 .

Franz von Zülow and Ernst Huber encouraged him to study at the Vienna University of Applied Arts with Walter Müller-Hoffmann and Eduard Bäumer (1946 to 1952). He then studied from 1952 to 1954 at the art school of the city of Linz with Wolfgang von Wersin and Herbert Dimmel .

In the 1950s, his ceramic studio was located in a former horse stable in the listed Gerstlhaus in Schenkenfelden . The rooms are now used as a prayer room and are part of a social project for the deaf and deaf-blind. The artist later lived and worked in Linz in the Auberg an der Riesenwiese district. He created numerous painterly and ceramic works, initially as free-hand pottery, later in ceramics, sgraffito, but also in stone and wood, furthermore pottery and watercolor painting. He received numerous commissions for art in architecture.

He was a member of the Mühlviertler Künstlergilde , the Innviertler Künstlergilde , the Upper Austrian Art Association (since 1956), the Professional Association of Fine Artists of Upper Austria (since 1946) and the Künstlerhaus Wien .

Exhibitions

Fellinger began holding solo exhibitions in 1956 and participated in numerous group exhibitions.

• Gallery of the Professional Association of Fine Artists of Upper Austria (1959 and 1966)
• Gallery of the Styrian Art Association (1973)
• Gallery of the Upper Austrian Art Association and the Professional Association of Fine Artists of Upper Austria, Matthäus Fellinger on his 70th birthday , September 26th to October 21st, 1994 (previously also 1974 and 1984)
• Schenkenfelden, Gerstlhaus shopkeeping museum, life and work of Prof. Matthäus Fellinger , June 5, 2011 to September 1, 2012

Works (selection)

Linz-St. Magdalena - fountain basin by Matthäus Fellinger

• Hexagonal fountain basin in Linz at the confluence of Mannheimer Strasse and Johann Wilhelm Klein Strasse (1970). The outer wall has twelve mosaics with motifs from the water world. The well is no longer in use as such, but is planted.
• Two-part mosaic made of painted tiles on the house Gürtelstraße 8 in Linz (1956)
• Ceramic picture on a block of flats in Kirchfeld, Windischgarsten with a historical documentation of the housing stock on the market square of Windischgarsten (was broken down into 500 individual parts because thermal insulation was applied to the house)
• Ceramic work at the Römerfeld secondary school in Windischgarsten

Awards

• Silver Merit of the Province of Upper Austria (1994)
• Culture Medal of the City of Linz (1994)
• Awarded the professional title of professor
• A 110-meter-long connecting staircase between Riesenhofstrasse and Riesenwiese in Linz is named Fellinger-Stiege

literature

• Peter Kraft: Strict life path to perfect form. Memory of the oö. Ceramist, painter and graphic artist Matthäus Fellinger. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets . Linz 2012, pp. 96–111, PDF on land-oberoesterreich.gv.at
• Otfried Kastner : Matthäus Fellinger - a member of the Mühlviertel artists' guild. In: Mühlviertler Heimatblätter . Linz 1962.
• Herbert Lange (Author): Matthäus Fellinger. Visit to Atelier XII. In: Upper Austrian news. No. 88, Linz 1962.

Web links

• Literature by and about Matthäus Fellinger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Matthäus Fellinger. In: stadtgeschichte.linz.at. Website of the City of Linz, accessed on February 6, 2020 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Kraft 2012, p. 104.
2. ↑ Life and work of Prof. Matthäus Fellinger , in: Web presence of the Association of Upper Austrian Museums ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 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. 
3. ^ Well basin by Matthäus Fellinger. In: stadtgeschichte.linz.at. Website of the City of Linz, accessed on February 6, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Two-part mosaic by Matthäus Fellinger. In: stadtgeschichte.linz.at. Website of the City of Linz, accessed on February 6, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Valuable ceramic work secured from demolition. In: District circular show Kirchdorf an der Krems. Retrieved February 6, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Felling stairs. In: stadtgeschichte.linz.at. Website of the City of Linz, accessed on February 6, 2020 .