Veva Tončić

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Veva Tončić (born March 11, 1912 in Vienna ; † May 1, 1992 in Salzburg ), also Veva Treuberg-Tončić (the name is often quoted without accents), was an Austrian visual artist . Her main work are stone sculptures ; she also created graphics , wall reliefs, paintings and paper cuttings .

Life

The ancestors of the Vienna-born artist come from Belgium, Dalmatia, France, Italy, Prussia and South Africa. She was born as Veva (Genoveva) Maria Katharina Aspasia Tončić Edle von Sorinj. She was the sister of the Austrian politician Lujo Tončić-Sorinj and was married to Ernst Ferdinand Graf Fischler von Treuberg.

Tončić completed after graduating from high school from 1936-1940 a private training as a stone sculptor with the master stonemason and sculptor Leo von Moos in Salzburg. 1943–1944 she attended the master class of sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and became assistant for stone work with Fritz Behn . At this time she also completed drawing with Herbert Boeckl .

After her training, Tončić worked as a freelance artist and remained so until her death.

She stayed mainly in Salzburg, where she died at the age of eighty. She was a member of the Salzburg Art Association ( Salzburger Kunstverein ). The artist is said to have a sense of humor, observation, an interest in the literary and a tendency towards the cyclical.

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Johannes the Baptist (1986) on the grounds of the Salzburg State Hospital

Veva Tončić created monumental and small sculptures. She thought monumentally in all of her work - regardless of the format. Your work is characterized by great immediacy in execution and is assessed as the result of a spontaneous creative process. Tončić worked without any preparatory sketches, models or a drawing fixation of her ideas.

Wall relief in the now demolished Paracelsusbad in Salzburg

“Your stone sculptures are taken straight out of the block, without preparatory sketches, without models, without drawing fixation of the overall or partial idea; they testify to an almost dreamlike, secure mastery of the profession and a sovereignty over material and tools. If you try to determine the stylistic principles of the artist's work, you will easily see that Veva Toncic is not attached to the classic ideal of the full roundness of the picture and the equality of all views. The artist is deeply committed to Greek ideals, but certainly not in the sense of superficial, imitative classicism: the Greek in these works is at the same time the elementary sculptural element, the relationship is less one of form than one of essence. "

This description of the work as a sculptor can literally be adopted for her paper cutting and is also a prerequisite for the art genre of paper cutting, if it should not remain in the arts and crafts.

Pietà

In addition to sculpture, she also engaged in other artistic genres such as drawing and painting in various techniques as well as paper cutting.

The artist's importance also lies partly in her contribution to the art genre of paper cutting:

“The fact that this artistic personality has left paper-cutting cycles for posterity is a milestone and an enrichment for the development of this art genre into the 21st century. It will no longer be possible to determine how many paper cuttings came from her hand, where they were used for illustrations, for gifts and for sales. "

“Veva Tončić is not a sculptor who also deals with painting and graphics, neither is she a painter and graphic artist who also deals with sculpture, she is neither one nor the other and yet everything together. She herself admits that she would like to work with four hands at the same time in a wide variety of artistic manners. "

- Michael Schwimann, cit. n. German Scherenschnittverein e. V.

Web links

Commons : Veva Tončić  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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  • German Scherenschnittverein e. V .: Veva Tončić on www.scherenschnitt.org
  1. ^ Tončić-Sorinj, Lujo (1982): Dreams fulfilled. Croatia. Austria. Europe. Amalthea Verlag, Vienna
  2. ↑ www.data.matricula-online.eu.de , accessed on December 27, 2017.
  3. ↑ www.scherenschnitt.org , accessed on August 30, 2016.
  4. ↑ Köller, Ernst: from: Veva Toncic (1982): book catalog, self-published by the artist, print by Universitätsdruckerei Anton Pustet, Salzburg, p. 3.
  5. ↑ http://www.scherenschnitt.org/toncic/ Veva Tončić, accessed on December 27, 2017.
  6. ↑ http://www.scherenschnitt.org/toncic/ Veva Tončić, accessed on December 27, 2017.
  7. ↑ http://www.scherenschnitt.org/toncic/ Veva Tončić, accessed on August 30, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Tončić, Veva
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Toncic-Treuberg, Veva
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1992
Place of death Salzburg