Reinhard Brandner

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Reinhard Brandner (born August 24, 1938 in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee ), known as "Der Lichtfänger", is an Austrian painter, graphic artist and sculptor.

Life

Reinhard Brandner grew up as the fifth of seven children in Klagenfurt, Austria. From 1958 to 1962 he attended the Famous Artists School Amsterdam, from which he graduated with a diploma in graphics and painting. He then returned to Klagenfurt, where he still lives today and has been working as a freelance artist since 1963. He spends his summers in Greece.

family

Reinhard Brandner is married and has four children, including Klaus Brandner and Enzo Brandner . His father Erich was an architect, his grandfather was Field Marshal Adam Brandner Edler von Wolfszahn .

Works

painting

Reinhard Brandner's paintings are mostly relief mixing techniques with natural materials that come from his travels. His main motifs are nature, mountains, sun and sea. The combination of brightness and darkness, illusion and reality as well as color and light led the art critic Manfred Posch to call him “The Light Catcher” from 1985 - an artist name that Brandner still bears today and that is registered as a brand name with the Austrian Patent Office .

Works by him are among others in the possession of the Federal Ministry of Culture Vienna (since 1979).

graphic

Reinhard Brandner has further developed the graphic technique of screen printing , from which "manugraphy" arose. This technique can only be worked by hand and not by machine. 30 to 40 prints are required for each sheet. By injecting dilution directly into the screen, color resolutions are created during printing that differ from other printing techniques. The artist produces a maximum of 99 pieces of each work made using this technique.

Country Art

Reinhard Brandner has been involved in Land Art projects since 2004 .

In 2005 the work Reloj del sol was created in the Los Cardones sculpture garden of the Gernot Huber Foundation on Tenerife. It is the largest horizontal sundial in Europe, which the artist made exclusively from natural materials from the island.

The sun protection indicator in the Klagenfurt am Wörthersee lido dates back to 2008 and is intended to make bathers aware of the need to protect their skin from the sun.

In the Sonnenpark in St. Veit an der Glan, Brandner took on the artistic design of Austria's largest horizontal sundial (2011) and the Sonnentor (2014).

Exhibitions

Of his numerous international exhibitions, the following are particularly noteworthy:

  • Participation in the International Graphic Biennale Laibach 1981, exhibition together with Valentin Oman .
  • Participation in the Biennale Tashkent / Uzbekistan 2009 in the Austria pavilion.
  • Exhibition of artists of the century in the La Colombe gallery in Puerto de la Cruz in 1987, together with artists such as Picasso, Braque, Chagall, Dalí, Beuys, Miró, Fuchs and Tapies.
  • Participation in various art fairs, e.g. B. Basel (1975–1983 annually).

media

  • His images are the basis of the film: and he saw that it was good; Creation as a spiritual ecology ; First broadcast April 16, 1979, 6:45 pm, ORF1 (20 ')
  • Cover design for Anton Kreuzer's American pocket watches , volumes 1–5, Carinthia University Press 1987–1988 (volume 1: ISBN 3-85378-283-3 ; volume 2: ISBN 3-85378-290-6 ; volume 3: ISBN 3-85378- 313-9 ; Volume 4: ISBN 3-85378-322-8 ; Volume 5: ISBN 3-85378-331-7 )
  • Cover design art edition record series for Herbert von Karajan, from 1988, Polydor / Deutsche Grammophon (e.g. No. 423 907-2)
  • The light catcher , documentary. 30 minutes. A film about Reinhard Brandner, 1998, production: Spaceframe Filmproduction
  • The art calendar of the Kärntner Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft ( Kärntner Druckerei ) for 2000 was dedicated to Reinhard Brandner.

Illustrated books

  • The light catcher. Reinhard Brandner , Univ.-Verl. Carinthia, 1990, ISBN 3-85378-351-1
  • From screen printing to manugrafie , Univ.-Verl. Carinthia, 1978, ISBN 3-85378-137-3
  • Brandner , by Manfred Posch and Reinhard Brandner. Verlag Kärntner Buchhandlung, 1999

literature

  • Reinhard Brandner. In: Saur General Artist Lexicon. Volume 13 Bordalejo - Brown. Saur, Munich / Leipzig 1996, ISBN 3-598-22740-X , p. 625.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reinhard Brandner. In: Saur General Artist Lexicon. Volume 13 Bordalejo - Brown. Saur, Munich / Leipzig 1996, ISBN 3-598-22740-X , p. 625.
  2. ↑ KTZ of November 13, 1985, page 21: Lichtfänger auf Reisen, column by Manfred Posch
  3. ↑ Register no .: 254465
  4. ^ Art report 1979. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: Art report Federal Ministry for Art and Education. 1979, p. 9 , archived from the original on August 16, 2014 ; Retrieved June 26, 2017 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kunstkultur.bka.gv.at
  5. ^ Artes - Art of Our World, No. 17, 1995, p. 334
  6. ↑ Reinhard Brandner. In: webarbeit.net. Retrieved June 26, 2017 .
  7. ^ Gernot Huber Foundation - Panorama Special in the Sculpture Park. In: teneriffa.panoshot.de. Retrieved June 26, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Artwork prevents sunburn. (PDF) In: Kommunal. Official organ of the Austrian Association of Municipalities. The largest specialist magazine for Austria's municipalities. May 2008, p. 100 , accessed June 26, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Solar power plant & largest horizontal sundial in Austria. In: Central Carinthia tourism region - Hochosterwitz adventure region: mitte Gesellschaft mbH. Retrieved June 26, 2017 .
  10. ↑ The Sun Gate was inaugurated. In: Kärntner Woche Zeitungs GmbH. June 25, 2014. Retrieved June 26, 2017 .
  11. ↑ KTZ from June 5, 1981, page 7: Reinhard Brandner in Laibach, Basel, Graz
  12. ↑ Kleine Zeitung of November 26, 2009, page 42: A golden outlook for the light catcher. Reinhard Brandner from Klagenfurt represented Austria at the 5th Biennale in Tashkent
  13. ↑ weekly mirror. The Canary Island newspaper from 6. – 19. November 1987: Exhibition of the Artists of the Century in the La Colombe Gallery in Puerto de la Cruz. Works by Brandner, Picasso, Braque, Chagall, Dalí, Beuys, Miró, Fuchs and Tapies
  14. ↑ Kleine Zeitung of June 12, 1976: Reinhard Brandner on the Basel art fair
  15. ↑ Carinthian newspaper of 12 April 1979, 18: And he saw that it was good ... . Creation as a spiritual ecology.
  16. ↑ KTZ of November 4, 1988, page 14: Order from Karajan.
  17. ↑ Spaceframe film production: The light catcher. Retrieved May 27, 2016 .
  18. ↑ Kärntner Tageszeitung from December 8, 1999, page 12: Radiant, shining days.
  19. ^ The Austrian Library Association and Service GmbH: Brandner. Retrieved May 27, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Brandner, Reinhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Klagenfurt am Wörthersee