Thomas Pühringer

Thomas Pühringer (* 1941 in Wels ; † December 30, 2018 in Linz ) was an Austrian painter and sculptor .

Live and act

The son of the Linz puppeteer Franz Pühringer (operator of the Linz puppet shows ) studied with Walter Ritter at the art school of the city of Linz in the master class for sculpture from 1956 to 1962 , has worked as a visual artist since 1962 and worked in a studio of the Egon Hofmann House . Later on, alongside Rudolf Kolbitsch and Peter Kubovsky, he was a member of an artistic advisory body for many years, which is heard when making decisions about the admission of an artist.

Since 1966 he was a member of the artists' association MAERZ and in 1973 he became a member of the Graz Secession . From 1962 he took part in numerous exhibitions at home and abroad and carried out four solo exhibitions. He has won several art prizes, including the Theodor Körner Prize (1967, 1982).

Works

Cast concrete sculpture "Dog", (1965)

As a student of sculpture, Thomas Pühringer created a new plastic stage decoration during the renovation of the Linz puppet theater in 1960 , which was equipped with numerous technical possibilities.

His works include sculptures and reliefs in concrete , terracotta , bronze , copper and aluminum for public and private buildings in Upper Austria . Further commissioned works were writing stones, war memorials , ways of the cross , fountains and bridge figures. He also dealt with the planning and design of large rooms, such as the chapel in Hartheim with glass windows, the playground of the Jahn school and various children's playgrounds.

selection

• Dog , cast concrete sculpture in the front garden of the house at Keplerstrasse 6, Linz (1965)
• City , concrete cast plastic, 1967 from Upper Austria. Landesmuseum bought on the occasion of the award of the promotion award of the state of Upper Austria
• Kallham War Memorial (1974)
• Bronze sculptures (1978 to 2002)
• Stations of the Cross in the Parish Church of Mitterkirchen (1983)
• Sculpture on the south side of the Linz town hall (1st prize and execution, 1985)
• Bronze relief at the district court of Wels
• Standing couple , bronze, purchased in 1988 by the Federal Ministry for Education and Art within the framework of art funding
• Square design in front of the district authority Urfahr-Umgebung in Linz-Urfahr made of colored granite, 1st prize and execution, 1992
• No easy way , ceramic relief, gray and blue glaze (2001)
• From poverty to wealth , mixed media / paper, graphics in the art collection of the province of Upper Austria (2004)

Individual evidence

1. ^ General refurbished Nordico City Museum. In: Linz Culture. Municipal quarterly publication of the city of Linz, Linz 2008, p. 78f (PDF; 1.2 MB)
2. ↑ Thomas Pühringer. Brief portrait. In: Web presence of the Graz Secession
3. ↑ Traude Maria Seidelmann: The Linz Puppet Plays Franz Pühringer. In: Historisches Jahrbuch der Stadt Linz 1981. Linz 1982, pp. 149ff, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
4. ^ Scripture stone . In: Pierer's Universal Lexicon. Volume 15, Altenburg 1862, p. 434.
5. ↑ Monuments / buildings by Thomas Pühringer. In: Web presence of the city of Linz
6. ^ Annual journal of the BVOÖ, Linz, 2005, p. 15, short portrait of the artist, p. 16  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.4 MB)  
7. ^ Photo from the catalog of the Graz Secession, 1992
8. ^ Annual journal of the BVOÖ, Linz, 2007, p. 11  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 797 kB)