Odilo Kurka

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Odilo Kurka

Odilo Kurka (born August 20, 1931 in Wiener Neustadt ) is an Austrian glass painter .

Life

Kurka is the son of the journeyman locksmith Odilo Kurka (1900–1976) and his wife Christine geb. Trimmel (1903-1992). Kurka was accepted in November 1947 as the only art student in a planned but never materialized "School for Church Art and Paramentics" in Schlierbach Monastery . In 1949 he signed an apprenticeship contract with Josef Raukamp , the owner of the Upper Austrian stained glass factory in Linz , and his brother in Schlierbach Abbey, Father Petrus Raukamp. He passed the journeyman's examination as a glazier and as a "painter for industrial products" and was taken on as an employee. He worked under four abbots until his retirement in 1991 at the Schlierbach Abbey, which in 1953 took over the Upper Austrian glass painting of Josef Raukamp. Odilo Kurka made well over a thousand windows for more than a hundred artists, including Alfred Stifter (1956–1962, 27 windows), Margret Bilger (1950–1971, 91 windows), Rudolf Szyszkowitz (1956–1976, 31 windows), Georg Meistermann (1955/1956, 9 windows), Franz Weiss (1956–2002, 110 windows), Rudolf Kolbitsch (1956–1977, 140 windows), Hans Plank (1955–1982, 26 windows).

Odilo Kurka has created over 150 colored glass windows throughout Austria according to his own design. He lives in Schlierbach , Upper Austria.

Honors

  • Culture Medal of the Province of Upper Austria, 1997

Works

Antique glass window of the parish church of Wels
Window in the Kirchdorf hospital
Raiffeisenbank Schlierbach
  • Cash desk, 1978: 'Handwerk, Landwirtschaft und Gewerbe', black solder and silver yellow on blown antique glass, picture sheet 127 × 176 cm
Schlierbach municipal office
  • Entrance to the skylights, 1979: 'Kloster Schlierbach before 1620', 'Kloster Schlierbach around 1640', 'Schloss Dorff'. Three windows, based on old engravings, black solder and silver yellow on real antique glass 55 × 98 cm, 55 × 85 cm, 55 × 85 cm
  • Entrance, now built-in passage, 1979: nuns from the former convent praying in the choir. Procession of the Cistercian monks. Coat of arms. Black solder and silver yellow on antique glass, 58 × 100 cm and 100 × 88 cm
Schlierbach Music School
  • Skylight passage from elementary school to the hall of mirrors, 1990: 'Dance', 'Music', antique glass window, red flashed glass on white, etched, with black solder painting, 52 × 97 cm each
Schlierbach war memorial
  • in front of the schoolhouse, 1966: Phoenix bird or dove of peace rises from the flames above the crown of thorns. Glass mosaic 180 × 78 cm
Weekday chapel of the Schlierbach collegiate church
  • Triumphant Christ, seven gifts of St. Geistes, four evangelists 1974; Black solder and silver yellow on real antique glass, 113 × 93 cm
Stained glass at Schlierbach Abbey, Margret Bilger Gallery
  • Superbia (pride), Humilitas (humility), copies of the windows of the parish church in Wels, 14th century, each 88 × 35 cm; another three copies after Florian windows of the late Gothic period
  • Bouquet of flowers 1978, antique glass 140 × 95 cm
  • abstract concrete glass window 129 × 52 cm
Schlierbach cemetery, mortuary
  • 'Three women at the grave' 1979, triptych concrete glass, 160 × 527 cm
Church in Sautern / Schlierbach
  • Ribbon window 1961, 16 fields, four saints, otherwise abstract; Concrete glass 225 × 900 cm
Fire brigade armory in Sautern / Schlierbach
  • Sankt Florian 1996, antique glass 116 × 232 cm
Kirchdorf an der Krems Hospital
  • Chapel and adjoining room, extension in 1965, antique glass window wall 310 × 1000 cm, abstract. (The glass window was divided in two by separating a conference room from the chapel.)
Bad Hall Clinic, chapel
  • The young men in the furnace in 1969, concrete glass 195 × 893 cm
Kremsmünster district Altenheim, chapel
  • Abstract composition with crucifix 2013, concrete glass 360 × 250 cm

literature

  • Odilo Kurka: Franz Weiss and his colored glass windows. In: Franz Weiss, Eine Künstlermonographie, Graz 1988, p. 39 f.
  • From a conversation with the glass painter Odilo Kurka, Schlierbach August 1988, in: Margret Bilger. Wood cracks, drawings, glass window work, Eds. Otto Breicha and Melchior Frommel, Salzburg 1988, p. 215 f.
  • Odilo Kurka: Notes about my collaboration with Margret Bilger. In: Margret Bilger. The painterly work. Edited by Peter Assmann and Melchior Frommel, Linz / Weitra 1997
  • Max J. Hiti: artist portrait Franz Weiss. A good piece of Styrian art history. In: Campus f, Das Fürstenfelder Kulturmagazin No. 44, Dec. 1998, pp. 20 ff.
  • Artist in Schlierbach. Odilo Kurka. In: Schlierbach. Home in the past and present. Edited by the community of Schlierbach, Ried iI 2000, p. 199 f.
  • Odilo Kurka: Colored glass windows by Prof. Franz Weiss in churches, chapels, schools and private houses. In: Franz Weiss. Colored glass window 1958–2002. Edited by Berta E. Prassl, Graz 2013, p. 46 f.
  • Odilo Kurka, glass painter in Schlierbach. Edited by Melchior Frommel, Bernhard Kurka. 48 pages, 28 color illustrations, texts by Margret Bilger, Melchior Frommel, Bernhard Kurka, Odilo Kurka, Hans Peter Jeschke, Franz Weiss. Munderfing 2016. ISBN 978-3-903154-09-4

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 'Odilo Kurka - Life Report', 'Works by Odilo Kurka in Schlierbach and the surrounding area' . In: Melchior Frommel, Bernhard Kurka (ed.): ODILO KURKA. Glass painter in Schlierbach . Munderfing 2016, ISBN 978-3-903154-09-4 .
  2. ↑ Municipality of Schlierbach (ed.): Odilo Kurka. Artist in Schlierbach. In: Schlierbach in the past and present . Ried im Innkreis 2000, p. 199, 200 .

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personal data
SURNAME Kurka, Odilo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian glass painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiener Neustadt