Udo Rabensteiner
Udo Rabensteiner (born June 24, 1958 in Lustenau , Austria ) is a contemporary Austrian sculptor and draftsman .
Life
Udo Rabensteiner inherited his love of art from his father, from the South Tyrolean stone sculptor Anton Rabensteiner . From 1978 to 1981 he completed a wood and stone carving apprenticeship. He then attended the master class for plastic design at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Graz for two years . From 1984 to 1990 he studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . From 2011 to 2015 he was a lecturer at the University of Liechtenstein . There he taught architects in visual design. Udo Rabensteiner has one son and lives and works in Lustenau and in the Bregenzerwald.
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Udo Rabensteiner's main work is sculptural-plastic. In between he goes on excursions into drawing and painting , preferably in black, white and gray. He uses bronze , plaster and black cement for his sculptures . After careful selection, he also makes casts in aluminum . The core object of his work is the human figure , which he often creatively alienates with abstract elements. When designing his sculptures, Rabensteiner is not concerned with meticulous naturalistic rendering, but rather with creating works that arise from emotion and the existential. Rabensteiner feels obliged to European culture, but does not want to lapse into academicism or kitsch. Some of his works revolve around the theme of "tortured human existence", others around "skinning" or the pursuit of liberation. They successfully capture a mood or sketch existential dramas or are simply well-composed forms that look beautiful and exciting from every perspective. Udo Rabensteiner's style changed over the years from figurative to abstract, then to a fusion of figure and abstraction. His guiding principle is: "Architecture is man and man is architecture". Udo Rabensteiner's work covers a broad spectrum: modern art, sacred art, bronze portraits as well as monuments in bronze or sandstone such as the euthanasia memorial in the city of Hohenems. His works are in numerous collections in Germany and abroad.
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1990: Hilger Gallery, Vienna
- 1993: Worsted Schaffhausen / CH
- 1994: Inge Freund Gallery, Klagenfurt
- 1995: Kunst-Werk, Vienna
- 1996: Damtschach Castle, Wernberg, Carinthia
- 2000: MiArt 2000, Modern and Contemporary Art Fair, Milano, Italy
- 2005: Galerie Prisma, South Tyrolean Artists Association, Bozen / I
- 2006: Galleria “Il Sipario” Parma / I, (Ernst Wolf / D)
- 2009: Gallery at Lindenplatz / FL
- 2010: 2010 Biennale Drawing, Prstina / Kosovo
literature
- Black pictures , 2012 catalog
Web links
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rabensteiner, Udo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian sculptor and draftsman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 24, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lustenau |