Siegfried Tragatschnig

Gobelin meeting room Klagenfurt town hall detail

Siegfried Tragatschnig (born November 10, 1927 in Theißing, municipality of Bad St. Leonhard im Lavanttal ; † January 2, 2013 in Klagenfurt ) was an Austrian painter and graphic artist.

biography

Born in Theißing in Lavanttal , he attended elementary school in Brückl and high schools in Klagenfurt, St. Paul and Wolfsberg . His artistic talent was recognized and promoted by his drawing teacher Hans Hetzendorfer.

As a 17-year-old he was drafted into the Wehrmacht , then seriously injured by a grenade and was a Yugoslav prisoner of war from 1945 to 1946. After the war he was able to catch up on his high school diploma . He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts under Herbert Boeckl and Albert Paris Gütersloh . After graduating in 1952, he first taught at the Eggermann Gymnasium in Klagenfurt, and later at the Realgymnasium Lerchenfelderstrasse in Klagenfurt. From 1968 he taught at the Pedagogical Academy (now Carinthia University of Education). From 1962 to 1996, Tragatschnig was Vice President and Artistic Director of the Art Association for Carinthia. In this role, he was particularly committed to promoting young artists and networking with artists in Slovenia and Friuli-Venezia Giulia.

Tragatschnig was married to Juliana (née Seiwald) since 1961.

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Mosaic in the main Kelag building

In February 2008 the Carinthian Art Association dedicated a retrospective to Siegfried Tragatschnig with 80 works that give an overview of the various phases of artistic creation. Works from the chalk cycle Broken Childhood (1967), in which the artist processed experiences from being a prisoner of war, were shown earlier . The exhibition also included watercolors with the fish as a central motif and impressions from the trip to Australia. The artist's numerous works in public spaces include a tapestry in the conference room of the Klagenfurt town hall and wall mosaics in the Kötschach-Mauthen secondary school, the Ingeborg Bachmann grammar school and the Kelag main building in Klagenfurt.

Awards

• 1967: Intart Prize
• 1988: Gold Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria
• 1997: Great Golden Decoration of Honor from the State of Carinthia
• Promotion Prize "Young Art in Carinthia"
• Füger's Medal of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ritter Verlag: Siegfried Tragatschnig ; accessed on Jan 26 2012
2. ^ Tragatschnig, Ulrich: Siegfried Tragatschnig. 2008. p. 13ff.
3. ↑ [1]
4. ^ Ulrich Tragatschnig: Siegfried Tragatschnig . 2008. p. 18.

literature

• Ulrich Tragatschnig (Ed.): Siegfried Tragatschnig . Ritter Verlag, Klagenfurt 2008, ISBN 978-3-85415-422-8 .