Oswald Stimm
Oswald Stimm (born August 13, 1923 in Vienna ; † May 6, 2014 there ) was an Austrian artist .
Life
After returning from English captivity, Stimm attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 1946 to 1949 and studied sculpture with Josef Müllner and Franz Santifaller . In 1947 he married Elfriede Heidendorfer, and one year later his son Thomas , later an artist himself, was born. In 1951 he emigrated to Buenos Aires , where he married Ilse Wehner, who was born in Argentina, and his children Hedwig (* 1952), Marion (* 1958) and José (* 1963) were born. During this time he took part in the "Unknown Political Prisoner" competition in London - Buenos Aires (Van Riel Gallery).
In 1965 he returned to Vienna and in 1971 presented his works, which consisted of Argentinean fruit boxes and tram beams, in the Secession . From 1973 to 1982 he was a teacher at the Académie des beaux arts in Kinshasa . Since 1982 he lived and worked in Vienna again. Inspired by Russian constructivism and actively participating in constructivist endeavors, he created engineering prototypes in Argentina in the 1950s, not unlike those on the Viennese scene shortly after the First World War.
Back in Vienna in the 1960s, he took a completely new path in Austrian sculpture with his constructive, informal objects made of tubes and boxes. With these box board formations, he freed himself from all requirements and did not submit to his own rules or rules he had taken over. Since 1982 he has been working in Vienna again. He was the recipient of numerous prizes, including a. the Theodor Körner Prize (1977) and the Appreciation Prize of the City of Vienna (1989).
Voice was buried at the Ober Sankt Veiter cemetery .
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“He abstracts radically. The figure loses face and limbs, is objectified into a technoid structure, the character of the image is lost and architecture becomes predominant. Only reminiscences remain in the head or shape, the construction becomes independent, loses its interpretative meaning ... Voic is a free builder who is relieved of the worry and burden of creating useful structures for a consuming society. "
European Symposium Kaisersteinbruch
In 2003, Oswald Stimm represented Spain at the 6th European Symposium Kaisersteinbruch , with Gabriel Caruana (Malta), Thomas Resetarits (Burgenland Croats), Vija Dzintare (Latvia) and Alen Novoselec (Croatia). The keynote speaker was Günther Nenning .
Voice's figure objects are constructions in space, open to it, enclose it.
An exhibition in the Künstlerhaus Galerie in 2010, curated by Peter Bogner, showed a cross-section of the last decades of creativity.
Web links
- Oswald Stimm. Work description on the homepage of the association "Künstlerhaus"
- Oswald Stimm. Short biography on the homepage of the Generali Foundation
- Sculptor Oswald Stimm died at the age of 90. In: Oberösterreichische Nachrichten of May 7, 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helmuth Furch , Historisches Lexikon Kaisersteinbruch , Museum and Culture Association Kaisersteinbruch 2003, pp. 542, 545. Kaisersteinbruch , 2 vols. 2004.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Voice, Oswald |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 13, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 6, 2014 |
| Place of death | Vienna |