Otto Eder (sculptor)

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Otto Eder (born February 4, 1924 in Seeboden , Carinthia ; † July 24, 1982 there ) was an Austrian painter and sculptor .

Life

Otto Eder lived in a family with five children. His father was a master carpenter who was technically and artistically gifted. The mother came from a large farm in Annenheim am Ossiacher See . Before Otto Eder attended the arts and crafts school in Villach at the age of 17, he worked with his father in the carpenter's workshop . From 1945 on, he started in Graz a craft training in the workshop for church sculpture Neuböck. In 1946 he interrupted his training three months later for a year and continued it in April 1947. In 1948 he began to study at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts with Walter Ritter and Fritz Wotruba .

In 1962 he received the Austrian State Prize for Sculpture, in 1965 the City of Vienna Prize for Fine Arts and in 1972 the City of Vienna Prize for Fine Arts .

From 1964 he was a member of the Vienna Secession . From 1967 he became involved in the Krastal sculpture symposium , which essentially determined his life afterwards, and in 1970 he founded the meeting in Krastal .

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Natural stone sculpture (1955) by Otto Eder in Vienna- Ottakring

For Eder, the figure was the starting point, which he reduced and transformed into something symbolic. His model was classical Greek sculpture. In doing so, he reduced the human figure to its essential component and looked for the original form of life in the egg shape. He made figures out of wood, stone and concrete. Eder succeeded in building on modern sculpture with his so-called dowel sculptures from 1950 and with his later figurations .

He created more than 150 works in his life as an artist, disregarding his work on architecture . In 1982 he put an end to his life by suicide.

Exhibitions (important)

  • 1961 Gallery in the Greek Beisl, Vienna
  • 1967 Künstlerhaus, Vienna
  • 1968 Secession, Vienna
  • 1992 Altnöder Gallery, Salzburg

Group exhibitions

  • 1968 Small sculpture, figurative graphics, Vienna
  • 1973 Bottoli, Deutsch, Eder, Heidel, Hietz, Muhr, Perz, Pilz, Schwaiger, Walenta, Vienna
  • 1986 Austrian sculptor trained at Wotruba, Lockenhaus Castle
  • 1986 Learned at Wotruba Schloss, Vienna
  • 2002 Fritz Wotruba to Bruno Gironcoli, Vienna
  • 2004/05 Blickwechsel No.1 from the Carinthia Museum of Modern Art collection, Klagenfurt
  • 2007 Albrecht and contemporaries. Positions of Austrian sculptors, Bregenz

Web links

Commons : Otto Eder  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Figure and formula: Life and work as a unit by Elisabeth Rath (PDF; 95 kB). Retrieved August 1, 2010
  2. ↑ a b Information on kunstnet.at ( Memento of the original from July 6, 2010 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. . Retrieved August 1, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kunstnet.at
  3. ↑ Data on archiv.belvedere.at . Retrieved August 1, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Eder, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Seeboden , Carinthia
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1982
Place of death Seeboden , Carinthia