Mercè Picó-Kirchmayr

Mercè Picó-Kirchmayr (* 1942 in Barcelona ) is a Spanish - Austrian painter and art teacher .

Live and act

The artist is married to Wolfgang Kirchmayr and lives and works in Scharten .

She studied from 1958 to 1965 in Barcelona at the Escola Massana and from 1968 to 1969 at the Conservatori Arts del Libre and, like her husband, from 1967 to 1968 at the Pforzheim School of Art and Crafts . She went on to study at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart . In 1972 she received her diploma in applied arts in the field of email in Barcelona.

From 1969 to 1970 she was a lecturer at the Escola Massana and from 1971 to 1978 a high school teacher at the music and pedagogical secondary school in Linz. From 1991 to 2007 she worked in the Upper Austrian regional music school system, supervising the subject of sound and color as well as integrating with people with intellectual disabilities.

She has been working as a freelance artist since 1968 and has been a member of the MAERZ artists' association since 1975 . She repeatedly deals with religious issues. In her works, she develops the centuries-old technical tradition of enamelling as an artistic design option.

Exhibitions (selection)

The artist presents her works in solo and group exhibitions at home and abroad.

• Colors and Shapes, Galerie Forum, Wels, 2012

Works

• Arbre Vermell , 1989, Art Collection of the Province of Upper Austria
• Via Crucis - Stations of the Cross of the Present , Stations of the Cross in the parish church of Hartkirchen , 2014
• Psalm prayer roll made of silk threads, meditation chapel in Scharten, 2003

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mercè Picó-Kirchmayr in: Web presence of Our Saints, art project queried on January 8, 2016
2. ↑ Wolfgang Kirchmayr and Mercè Picó, Colors and Shapes, in: Web presence of the Galerie Forum ( Memento of the original from January 9, 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 January 8, 2016