Thomas Reinhold

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Thomas Reinhold (* 1953 in Vienna ) is an Austrian painter .

Life

Reinhold studied from 1974 to 1978 at the University of Applied Arts Vienna with Herbert Tasquil . During his studies he came out with poetic, magical, photographic and painterly pictorial inventions, which, among other things, dealt with the representational nature of the image. At the end of the 1970s he initiated the Neue Wilde in Austria together with Siegfried Anzinger , Erwin Bohatsch , Alfred Klinkan and Hubert Schmalix , but in the mid-1980s he turned to media-reflective aspects of painting and photography, which still shape his work today.

Reinhold lives in Vienna.

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painting
From the photo series Malendes Licht, Lebende Schatten , 2010

Reinhold's sometimes large-format oil painting testifies to a concentration on the fundamental specifics of the medium of painting, that is, color and its materiality, as well as surface and space. The creation process of the painting and its temporality is thematized through overlays and layers of color forms. These superimpositions call on the viewer to an almost archaeological way of seeing in order to be able to grasp the resulting image space. In 2011 the group of works Tectonics of Suspension was created . The topic reflects their development process. The dead center forms the liquid color, allowing a regularity between the decisions for a few moments. The painterly approach, which essentially consists of shifting the focus, provokes precisely this moment, which lets the indeterminacy take shape. The intermediate area becomes the place of interest, in which forms emerge that appear to be suspended between rivulets.

photography

Reinhold's preoccupation with the medium of photography started early in his work. In his “Ferris Wheel Series” from 1977, the factors of space, time and sequence represent the fundamental theme, aspects that Reinhold also thematizes in his painting. The Vienna Giant Ferris Wheel in the Vienna Prater as the central motif becomes the starting point for dealing with mobility and immobility, object and image. The photo series Painting Light, Living Shadows was created in 2010 during Reinhold's three-month stay in Shanghai . In this media-reflective work, picturesque photographs are juxtaposed with photographic-shadow-like ink paintings . Both the motifs of the photos and the technology used create a specific reference to the place of origin.

Four side windows of the Chapelle de la Résurrection , 2002
Art in public space

In 1999 Reinhold was commissioned to design the windows of the Chapelle de la Résurrection in Brussels , which was carried out in 2002 together with the Schlierbach glass painting workshop . The transparency of the windows made using melting technology creates a “visual model” for what is in front of and behind, the superimposition of structures, the side by side in relation to one another. This enables the viewer to locate his or her location. The view outside mixes the floating, picturesque layer with the facades of the European government buildings opposite; Trees, a piece of lawn, cars passing by and passers-by also contribute in their movement, color and shape as underlying “layers of reality” to an overall picture.

Exhibition Art, Europe , Deichtorhallen, 1991
Exhibition Malweise , Secession, Vienna, 1997
Exhibition Painting: Process and Expansion , MUMOK , Vienna 2010

Recognitions

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)
  • 2012: Tectonics of suspension , kunsthaus muerz, Mürzzuschlag; Galerie Kunst und Handel, Graz
  • 2011: Galerie Gölles Fürstenfeld
  • 2009: Essential , Galerie Michitsch Vienna
  • 2008: repro-spektiv: re-productive, drawn from the full , Galerie Kunst & Handel, Graz
  • 2006: From the Nature to an Architecture of Painting , HF Contemporary Art, London
  • 2005: synergie: paradox , joint installation with Julie Hayward, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Stift Admont
  • 1997: Malweise , Secession, Vienna
  • 1995: Polyptych , Kunsthaus Galerie, Mürzzuschlag
  • 1988: Valente, arte contemporanea, Finale Ligure
  • 1987: Galerie Springer Berlin - stand and object , sculptures, Secession Vienna
  • 1984: Heike Curtze Gallery, Vienna and Düsseldorf
  • 1983: Ariadne Gallery, Vienna
  • 1980: Forum Stadtpark, Graz
Participation in exhibitions (selection)
  • 2012: Sigrid and Franz Wojda Collection - A Life with Modern Art , MMKK, Klagenfurt
  • 2011: Reality and Abstraction , Liaunig Neuhaus Museum
  • 2010: Painting: Process and Expansion , Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation, Vienna, curators: Rainer Fuchs, Edelbert Köb
  • 2007: Conceptual photography from the collection , Museum der Moderne Rupertinum Salzburg, curator: Margit Zuckriegl
  • 2006: Crossover , Koroska Galerija Slovenj Gradec, curator: Silvie Aigner
  • 2004: Vision of a collection , Museum der Moderne Salzburg, curator: Agnes Husslein Arco
  • 1998: KUNST with through over SCHRIFT , international art of the last fifty years from the Kübler Collection, Atterseehalle Attersee, curator: Margit Zuckriegl - "Contemporary Austrian Painters", The Rotunda, One Exchange Square, Hong Kong, curator: Christiane Inmann
  • 1997: Positions in Austrian Painting Today , Center Cultural Sala Parpallo Valencia, Curator: Lóránd Hegyi
  • 1994: Wild and newly wild Austrian visual art from the property of the Salzburg State Collection Rupertinum , curator: Otto Breicha
  • 1993: Confrontations , new acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation, Vienna
  • 1992: Surface radicale , Grand Palais Paris, Convention Center Los Angeles, University of Applied Arts Vienna, curator: Lóránd Hegyi
  • 1991: Art, Europe 1991 , Kunstverein in Hamburg, Deichtorhallen, as well as Galerie Rähnitzgasse Dresden, curator: Jürgen Schweinbraden
  • 1990: Querdurch , Dom umenia, Bratislava, curator: Edelbert Köb
  • 1988: MALERMACHT, Expression and Pathos in New Austrian Painting , Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis Bregenz, Curator: Christa Häusler
  • 1985: Austria ferix , Palazzo Costanzi, Galleria Torbandena Triest, Galerie Goethe Bozen
  • 1984: artisti austriaci, due generazioni , studio cavalieri Bologna - 6th International Small Sculpture Exhibition, Kunsthalle Budapest, curator: Edelbert Köb
  • 1983: New painting in Austria , Galerie Jurka Amsterdam
  • 1983: Joves Salvatges Austriacs, Galerie Dau al Set Barcelona
  • 1983: New Painting in Austria '83 , New Gallery of the City of Linz, Curator: Peter Baum
  • 1981: New painting in Austria , Neue Galerie Graz, curator: Wilfried Skreiner - 5th International Biennale, Secession Vienna
  • 1980: The instant photo, discovery of a medium , Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn

Works in collections

Private collections
  • Carl Djerassi Collection, Vienna
  • Museum Liaunig , Neuhaus
  • Sigrid and Franz Wojda collection, Vienna

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wilfried Skreiner: Claims on New Painting in Austria. In: Sinnpause. Kunstforum Köln, Vol. 80, 3/1985.
  2. ↑ Robert Fleck: Catalog painter power. Expression and pathos in the new Austrian painting. Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn and Taxis Bregenz, 1988
  3. ^ Carl Aigner, Thomas Reinhold: On the iconography of time and space. Interview in EIKON - International Journal for Photography and Media Art, issue 60/2007
  4. ↑ Matthias Boeckl: Timeless sensuality. Art magazine Parnass Wien, issue 3/2009
  5. ^ Carl Aigner, Thomas Reinhold: On the iconography of time and space. Interview in EIKON - International Journal for Photography and Media Art, issue 60/2007
  6. ↑ Pia Jardí: Light as a theme and a painterly element. Thomas Reinhold's intervention on the five windows of the “Chapel of the Resurrection” in Brussels. Art magazine Parnass Vienna, No. 1/2003

literature

  • Carl Aigner, Thomas Reinhold: On the iconography of time and space. Interview in EIKON - International Journal for Photography and Media Art, issue 60/2007
  • Matthias Boeckl: Timeless sensuality. Art magazine Parnass Wien, issue 3/2009
  • Brigitte Borchardt-Birbaumer: From wanderings as painter trips. Wiener Secession, Wiener Zeitung, April 5, 1997
  • Brigitte Borchardt-Birbaumer: Musil, Hölderlin or Queen Nefertete. Hofstätter Gallery Vienna, Wiener Zeitung, March 11, 1999
  • Brigitte Borchardt-Birbaumer: flags, suns and moons. Hofstätter Gallery Vienna, Wiener Zeitung, June 11, 2002
  • Robert Fleck: Catalog painter power. Expression and pathos in the new Austrian painting. Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn and Taxis Bregenz, 1988
  • Robert Fleck: Catalog Thomas Reinhold, oil paintings, 1988 - 90. Galerie Steinek Vienna, 1990
  • Lóránd Hegyi: Catalog Positions of Austrian Painting Today. Center Cultural Sala Parpallo Valencia, 1997
  • Lóránd Hegyi: New Painting and New Sculpture since the 1970s. In: Wieland Schmied (Ed.): History of the fine arts in Austria. 20th century. Prestel Verlag Munich, 2002
  • Barbara Herzog: Catalog From panel painting to wall object. Museum der Moderne Salzburg, 2005
  • Karl A. Irsigler: Topography - a journey. Catalog Thomas Reinhold, Malweise , Secession Vienna, 1997
  • Karl A. Irsigler: Sense of Reality - Sense of Possibility - Memoirs by Thomas Reinhold in the Hofstätter Gallery Vienna, Art magazine Parnass, Vienna, issue 1/1999
  • Pia Jardi: La pintura actual en Viena. Lapiz, Revista Internacional de Arte, Madrid, No. 213, 2005
  • Pia Jardí: Light as a theme and a painterly element. Thomas Reinhold's intervention on the five windows of the Chapel of the Resurrection in Brussels - Art magazine Parnass Vienna, No. 1/2003
  • Edelbert Köb: Catalog Painting: Process and Expansion. MUMOK Foundation Ludwig Vienna, Cologne, 2010
  • Margit J. Mayer: Consistent - inconsistent. In: Wiener. Vienna, February 1986
  • Otmar Rychlik: About these pictures. Catalog Thomas Reinhold, oil paintings 1986-87 , Galerie Springer Berlin, 1987
  • Wilfried Skreiner: Claims to New Painting in Austria. In: Sinnpause. Kunstforum Köln, Vol. 80, 3/1985
  • Wilfried Skreiner: Bildanthologie 1980-87. Kunstforum Köln, Vol. 89, 6/1987

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personal data
SURNAME Reinhold, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna