Nikolaus Pfeiffer

The Egon Schiele bronze bust in the Leopold Museum Vienna

The memorial in the parish cemetery of Maxglan

Gollinger roundabout, gate with 120 tons made of concrete and Untersberg marble

Nikolaus (Niki) Pfeiffer (* 1954 in Kitzbühel , Tyrol ) is an Austrian visual artist .

He lives and works in Salzburg as a sculptor and graphic artist .

Works

• His best-known work is a bronze bust of Egon Schiele in the Leopold Museum Vienna, mentioned in Kürschner's handbooks .
• The bronze sculpture of the Nazarenes is in the Cathedral Museum Vienna .
• Further works are in the Museum Landsberg am Lech
• He designed the municipal coat of arms of Stumm in the Zillertal.
• The 16-ton memorial for the unnamed victims and persecuted persons of the 20th century has stood at Maxglan Cemetery since June 2008 , which he made from Untersberg marble on behalf of the Maxglan parish .
• In Golling an der Salzach there is the 5-ton sculptural stele and the Golling heraldic raven .
• On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the town elevation of Seekirchen am Wallersee , his sculpture Upright Citizen was put up in the Seeburg .
• In October 2012, a roundabout was completed in Golling, on which there is a 120-tonne concrete gate. The gate symbolizes the way from Innergebierg to Aussergebierg, in between there is a monumental reproduction of a Roman milestone made of Untersberg marble.

Publications

• with Friederike Zaisberger : Salzburg municipal coat of arms . In collaboration with Jacqueline Schiff, Salzburg State Archives, Series No. 3, Salzburg 1985, ISBN 3-85380-048-3 .
• From manual binding to high-tech laboratory. 70 years of bookbinding in the Salzburg State Archives. Series of publications by the Salzburg State Archives No. 16, Salzburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-200-02185-3 .
• Responsibility for cultural property - Conservational guidelines for everyday life in the regional museum and community archive. Series of publications by the Salzburg State Archives , Salzburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-9503422-4-6 .

Web links

Commons : Nikolaus Pfeiffer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of Nikolaus Pfeiffer