Richard Wall

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Richard Wall (2019)

Richard Wall (born December 7, 1953 in Engerwitzdorf ) is an Austrian writer , visual artist and translator .

The author, who lives in Engerwitzdorf and near Langschlag in the Waldviertel, works literarily primarily in the areas of poetry , essay , as a visual artist primarily in the border area between text and image, mixed media and collage.

Since 1981 his works have been presented in exhibitions. He has published his pictures and texts in anthologies, cultural and literary magazines since 1980 and is a member of the Graz Authors' Assembly , the IG authors and the Podium literary association . In addition to Peter Assmann , Ferdinand Götz and Paul Jaeg, Wall belongs to the artist group Sinnenbrand .

Work description

Summery Village - From the more beautiful life in the country was his first photographic and literary work and was published in 1992 by Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz. In 1995, the same publisher published the volume of poetry threshold light shadow path . In 1996 he made travel sketches and essays entitled Stones, Traces, Labyrinths . In 1997, the Ritter Verlag published the HerzAsphaltMörderGrubenRhapsody , a rhythmic prose in three chapters that critically and linguistically reflects on rural life and the circumstances of the time. In 1999 the photo essay Wittgenstein in Ireland was published, a work in which Wall deals with Wittgenstein's stays in Ireland and describes the influence of the landscape on thinking. In 2000 the book of poems Stein- und Neonschrift was published by Grasl Verlag . The structure and character of the seventeen and four card game of the same name was published in 2003. The poems are preceded by lyrical excerpts from various poets, sentences by Fernando Pessoa , Hans Eichhorn or Waltraud Seidlhofer , for example . In 2004 Richard Walls appeared with collages of an illustrated volume of poetry called Anonymous Inventories . From the volume of poems Am Rande , his texts concentrate on the changes in the countryside, on the pseudo-urbanization of the villages, especially the Mühlviertel and Waldviertel.

“The reflective eye person Wall becomes a custodian of the images of the rural world, similar to another lyrical custodian, the Saxon Wulf Kirsten.” Klaus Gasseleder in Freeboard, Vienna

“That is the beauty of Wall's art that, like Kramer, he carefully and freely directs his gaze to the distant, to activities, sensations, objects, breaks them out of isolation, gives them back the meaning that they have lost.” Erich Hackl , Spectrum The press .

Works

  • Blackthorn / With the sickle the grain. Irish travel journal with poems by Moya Cannon and Francis Harvey, Linz-Weitra 1989.
  • Threshold light. Shadow path. Poems. (1987-1993). Linz-Weitra 1995.
  • Stones, tracks, labyrinths . Travel sketches of Venice, Ireland and Bohemia. With essays on Ezra Pound , Dylan Thomas , Bohumil Hrabal , Ludwig Wittgenstein , Tim Robinson. Linz 1996.
  • HeartAsphaltMillerPitsRhapsody . Klagenfurt 1999.
  • Stone and neon font . Poems. Baden 2000. (= Poetry from Austria, Vol. 84).
  • Klemens Brosch or an exercise in the impossible . A triptych, Klagenfurt-Vienna 2001.
  • Seventeen and four. Poems and ballads, Linz 2003, ISBN 3-85285-111-4 .
  • Anonymous inventories./Anonymni inventury . Poems bilingual (Czech / German). Translation into Czech by Josef Hruby. 7 images. Pilsen 2004. ISBN 80-86446-15-8 .
  • On the edge . Poems 1996-2005. Rimbaud Verlag, Aachen 2006. ISBN 3-89086-606-9 .
  • Rome. A palimpsest . Novel. Klagenfurt 2006.
  • Under Orions Lidern , Gedichte, Löcker, Vienna 2009.
  • Connemara. In the circle of winds , prose, with photographs by the author, Mitter Verlag, Wels 2011.
  • Streith, Poems, New Poetry from Austria Volume 6, Berger Verlag, Horn 2014.
  • Field, meadow, apple, barn, stable, sow, horse, cow, oven, bread or wood. Fragments of a biography. With offset lithographs by Andreas Ortag. Edition Thurnhof, Horn 2015.
  • Achilles. Verses from the edge of Europe. Poems in English and German. With mixed techniques from Martin Anibas. Literature edition Lower Austria, St. Pölten 2016.
  • Go . Stadtlichter Presse, Wenzendorf 2019. ISBN 978-3-947883-06-6 .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • MAIL - ART . Anna and Karel Kocourkovi / Richard Wall; Bruckmühle Pregarten , 2006;
  • Greetings to the Russian people: 7 years of picture post and correspondence: Hans Eichhorn - Richard Wall, StifterHaus Linz (2003);
  • Interfaces: literature & fine arts , 30 years GAV & 30 years Art University Linz; Art University Linz (2003);
  • Rose, o pure contradiction ..., Artmark Gallery, Vienna (2007);
  • Castle Zell / Pram, with the Sinnenbrand group (2008);
  • Wolf Ruprecht Gallery, Obermühl (2008);
  • Blatná Castle, South Bohemia (2008);
  • Gallery CART, Pregarten (2009);
  • Fantastic Library Wetzlar (2010);
  • German Villa Strobl (2011);
  • Head to Head , Gallery of the General Management of the Generali Group in Linz (2013);

Scholarships and Awards

  • Rome grant from the Federal Chancellery (2001);
  • Project grant from the Federal Chancellery for Rome. A Palimpsest (2002);
  • Scholarship d. Offices f. cultural foreign relations d. Landes Upper Austria in Paliano / Latium (2004);
  • Scholarship holder at the Villa Stonborough-Wittgenstein-Gmunden (2004);
  • Book Prize of the Federal Chancellery for Rome. A Palimpsest (2006);
  • Scholarship with a studio stay at the Egon Schiele Art Center in Český Krumlov (2007);
  • “Book Prize 2009” from the Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture for the volume of poetry Unter Orions Lidern;
  • Artist in Residence, Heinrich Böll-Cottage, Achill, Ireland, 2014;
  • Project grant from the Federal Chancellery 2016/17

literature

  • Helmuth Schönauer : Byx, the secret files of the library; Episode 1, Richard Wall . In: Bildungs-Fächer, Innsbruck, 1999.

Web links

Commons : Richard Wall  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sinnenbrand ( memento of November 3, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed May 16, 2016
  2. ↑ Scholarship holders at the Egon Schiele Art Center. Retrieved October 1, 2016 .
  3. ^ Art and Culture Report 2016 - Federal Chancellery Austria Archive. P. 398 (PDF 8.1 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Wall, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer, translator, sculptor and local history researcher
DATE OF BIRTH 7th December 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Engerwitzdorf