Sepp Auer

Sepp Auer , also Josef Auer , (born June 20, 1939 in Braunau am Inn ) is an Austrian university professor , sculptor ( metal sculptor ) and installation artist .

Live and act

The son of a school director passed his master craftsman's examination as a locksmith in 1961 and then devoted himself to his artistic training. From 1975 to 2004 he taught at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and from 1994 to 1997 he was interim head of the master class for sculpture there . His students included a. Friedrich Biedermann (1996 to 2009), Heribert Friedl (until 1998) and Judith Wagner (1991 to 1998) Sepp Auer lives and works in Vienna and St. Peter am Hart .

The artist is a member of the Künstlerhaus Wien and the artist association MAERZ . From 1992 to 2001 he was a juror on several occasions for the award of art and culture prizes (1992 to 1995 and from 1999 to 2001 for art in public spaces with the Lower Austrian provincial government and from 1994 to 1996 with the Upper Austrian provincial government. He was with the latter during this period also juror for the culture award of the province of Upper Austria ). In 1996 he worked at the metal symposium in Spital am Pyhrn and from 2001 to 2003 he worked as a curator for art purchases at the Linz municipal authorities . From 2007 to 2010 he worked in the artistic field at the federal real estate company .

Instability Stability (2002) in front of the Landes-Nervenklinik Wagner-Jauregg

Works

• 1986 Design of the chapel of the Linz General Hospital
• 1995 Jewish monument in Wels
• 1997 Design of the marketplace with a fountain in Ybbsitz
• 2002 design of the chancel in the parish church in Hallstatt
• 2002 COR-TEN steel plastic instability stability for the new building of the state mental hospital Wagner-Jauregg in Linz
• 2005 redesign of the church in Paasdorf
• 2007 Ranshofen secondary school , art in public space
• 2008 Lattice wall and entrance gate of the new museum wing at the Schlossmuseum Linz
• Chancel furnishings in the parish church of Kleinraming

Solo exhibitions

• 1974 Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna , metal sculpture
• 1990 Rupertinum , Salzburg
• 1993 Upper Austrian State Museum , Linz
• 2010 Zacherlfabrik , Vienna: Spiluttini - Kämmerer - Auer

Awards

• 1970 State Prize for Forging Sculpture Munich
• 1989 Culture Prize of the Province of Upper Austria for the fine arts
• 1996 and 2010 Golden Medal of the Künstlerhaus Vienna

literature

• Interpretations 1991 - 1993 , Landesgalerie Linz at the Upper Austrian State Museum, catalog, with contributions by Peter Assmann (attacking art), Burghart Schmidt (sculptures from neoplasticity) and Franz Josef Czernin (interpretations), Linz, 1993, ISBN 3-900746-56-7
• Sepp Auer, 1972 - 1992 , catalog, with contributions by Oswald Oberhuber (Sepp Auer - his principle of finding materials), Otto Breicha (The term art is now a very worn-out affair), Wilfried Skreiner (The beauty of the barren, on the plastic work of Sepp Auer), Anton Gugg (Festes Land is nowhere, Sepp Auer's sculpture of the insecure), Linz, 1993
• Künstlerhaus Vienna: catalog, Florian Steininger , space - sculpture
• Catalog UND, Schlebrügge.editor, text: Markus Mittringer, ISBN 978-3-902833-16-7

Web links

Commons : Sepp Auer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Sepp Auer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Sepp Auer, in: Basis wien web presence, art, information and archive
• Website from Sepp Auer

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sepp Auer , in: Website of the Generali Foundation
2. ↑ 25 years of AKH chapel , in: Web presence of the Catholic Church in Upper Austria from June 29, 2012 ( Memento from October 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ 9th Pollheimerpark memorial for the Jewish citizens of Wels ( Memento from April 3, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
4. ↑ www.aoeg.net: publicart - art in public space Lower Austria - sepp auer, brunnen für den marktplatz in ybbsitz de. Retrieved February 13, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Instability - Stability , in: Website of the City of Linz