Prasthan Dachauer

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wolfram "Prasthan" Dachauer (born October 8, 1940 in Linz ; † October 9, 2016 ) was an Austrian painter and graphic artist .

Life and artistic training

Wolfram Dachauer was the son of a lawyer born in Vienna and a Germanist born in Upper Austria . His relatives include his maternal great-nephew, the painter Karl Friedrich Gsur, and his paternal great-uncle, the painter Wilhelm Dachauer . His talent for drawing was recognized as early as kindergarten age and recognized and encouraged by both his parents and the writer Bruno Brehm , who often drew with him. He had his stage name Prasthan since his stay in India in 1975.

Dachauer had two siblings and spent the first four years of his life in Linz. After the first bomb attack in 1944, the family moved to Gumpling near Pramet in the Innviertel . In 1950 the family moved to Wagrain . Dachauer first attended secondary school in Sankt Johann im Pongau and then high school . Next residence was Trofaiach in Steiermark , where he in Leoben the compulsory school graduated at the secondary school in Trofaiach.

From 1955 to 1958 Dachauer attended the fresco and sgraffito class at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Graz with Rudolf Spohn (1905–1975), where he received basic training in drawing and the techniques of fresco painting, sgraffitos and mosaics, which he never used , since he was occupied with portraying from the beginning .

From 1958 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Sergius Pauser and won two master school prizes and the 1963 graduation prize. While doing military service , he designed the way of the cross in the chapel of the Ebelsberg barracks . His daughter Mischa, who was born in 1966, comes from his first marriage and Dagmar, who was born in 1988, comes from his second marriage.

He died on October 9, 2016, the day after his 76th birthday.

Artistic activity

His works in the 1960s are characterized by painterly expressionism , and he also worked as a display decorator in Vienna and Linz .

Dachauer has been present in national and international exhibitions since 1962. In 1966 he received a scholarship for Rome and in 1969 one for Norway . His artistic reorientation towards surrealism and symbolism coincides with the breakup of his marriage. Role models and artistic guides are Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez and Jan Vermeer .

In 1968 he moved to Waldhausen im Strudengau and renovated a small house there in complete seclusion. Between 1970 and 1973 he made several painting trips to Tunisia , Morocco and Spain together with the Norwegian surrealist Bjarne Holst (* 1944), with whom he had a deep friendship and with whom he shared a studio in Vienna for a while.

In 1975 he spent several years in India , where he met Osho , who gave him his spiritual name. He began to deal with ceramics and designed vases with mystical heads and small sculptures with fantastic figures. In 1987 he went on a study trip to Gran Canaria and in 1990 he received a second scholarship for Norway. From 1997 he repeatedly participated in international artist symposiums. In 2005 he traveled to Nukus in Uzbekistan , where he led a master class in portraiture.

Works by him are in private and public collections, u. a. in:

Exhibitions and participation in exhibitions

Dachauer took part in exhibitions regularly since 1962.

Exhibitions outside of Austria were u. a. in
Exhibitions in Austria were u. a. in

source

literature

  • Rudi Hörschläger: Prasthan Dachauer - A great magician , opening speech for the exhibition at the BVOÖ September 2005, in: BVOÖ, Professional Association of Visual Artists Upper Austria, annual publication 2005, Linz 2005 BVOÖ annual publication 2005 (PDF; 1.4 MB)
  • Exhibition catalog of the solo exhibition in Bad Kreuzen, Würzenberg 6 , November 2009 to May 2010 Prasthan Dachauer
  • Elisabeth Christine Geirhofer: Prasthan Dacher - Das Graphische Werk , exhibition catalog, Magistrat der Landeshauptstadt Linz (ed.), Nordico Museum of the City of Linz, September 22, 2006 to October 29, 2006, ISBN 978-3-85484-087-9
  • Irene Judmayer: Drawing pictures with a hair dryer , in: Oberösterreichische Nachrichten, Kultur, from September 14, 2006 OÖN / Culture

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In memoriam Prasthan Dachauer. In: Tips Online. Retrieved October 19, 2016 .
  2. ^ Association of Upper Austrian Museums, information sheet No. 3/2005, p. 7.
  3. ^ Graphic exhibitions in 2006 in the Nordico
  4. ↑ Exhibitions and participation in exhibitions ( Memento of the original from February 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / prasthandachauer.com
personal data
SURNAME Dachauer, Prasthan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dachauer, Wolfram (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 2016