Siegfried Anzinger

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Siegfried Anzinger, portrayed by Oliver Mark, Cologne 1996
Siegfried Anzinger, portrayed by Oliver Mark , Cologne 1996

Siegfried Anzinger (born February 25, 1953 in Weyer ) is an Austrian painter , graphic artist and sculptor . He is one of the founders of the so-called " New Wild ".

Life

Siegfried Anzinger studied from 1971 to 1977 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Maximilian Melcher . In 1981 he moved to Cologne . In 1998 he received a professorship for painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . Anzinger lives and works in Vienna and Cologne. In 2013 he was elected to the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts .

The works of the painter Siegfried Anzinger suggest an impression of speed and spontaneity. Their execution is determined by a playful lightness and immediacy that indicates the "non-finito" that is particularly important to the painter. The moment of the “unfinished” is also evident in the technical execution of his work: New layers of paint are repeatedly added to his paintings, so that a picture carrier can have up to twenty layers of paint.

While Anzinger's early works were strongly gestural and expressive, he tends to take a back seat in later works. He consciously works in series and simultaneously paints three to four pictures.

Anzinger's preferred agent is glue paint , a thin, transparent paint. However, once applied, it can no longer be corrected. The composition must therefore succeed in one go. Due to the special properties of this medium, the artist acquired great compositional security. If Anzinger is still not satisfied with the work that is being done, he removes the glue paint completely and starts over.

Four pictorial themes have dominated the artist's work since around 2000: animals, Madonnas, stories of creation and erotic representations. The latest works show remnants of lines or color stimuli, which the artist forms into new forms and figurations.

A parodic trait can also be seen in Anzinger's work, particularly in his painting “Creation of a Duck” (2001), in which the artist targets the creation myth. Here he not only takes inspiration from art history, but also incorporates his own carriers of meaning into the picture, such as the bathtub, which for the artist has the status of a ritual object.

Awards

Exhibitions

Public collections

literature

  • Siegfried Anzinger, drawing, painting, sculpture - exhibition catalog. Galerie Krinzinger Vienna (ed.), Klagenfurt 1986.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Siegfried Anzinger. North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts , accessed on April 16, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Siegfried Anzinger , in: Web presence of the Essl Museum ( Memento of the original from March 26, 2012 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.essl.museum
personal data
SURNAME Anzinger, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Weyer (Upper Austria)