Viktor Lederer (painter)

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Viktor Lederer (born November 26, 1935 in Vienna ; † January 2, 2017 there ) was an Austrian painter .

Life

Viktor Lederer studied painting with Franz Elsner at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna between 1954 and 1964 . After receiving his diploma, he worked as a freelance painter and became a member of the Künstlerhaus Wien . His first studio was in Lichtental , Alsergrund . Until 1970 Lederer had smaller solo exhibitions, 1962 in Sankt Margarethen in Burgenland and 1964 in the Vienna Student Theater, as well as participation in the exhibition “Das gute Bild” in the Secession and in the Künstlerhaus.

In 1968 he designed a guest exhibition in the Künstlerhaus Krems . In his work, Lederer relied on direct sensual perception and the merging of colors . He is convinced that a picture should not be created on the drawing board, but rather must reflect emotions in its entirety. With great empathy and expressive colors, haunting portraits of the simple villagers of Schlaining and Rechnitz and their farmhouses are created. Sensuality instead of concept are also the premises of Viktor Lederer's nudes and still lifes. In the numerous files he is not concerned with a psychological portrait, but with the incarnation of his models on the canvas.

Lederer was the successor to Austrian Classical Modernism , his style of painting often earned him criticism because it was considered “out of date”, but Viktor Lederer rose to become one of the most important Austrian artists of the post-war period. In 1970 Viktor Lederer moved his studio to Wieden , and he also had changing summer studios in the countryside, including Burgenland , which was to play a central role in his work. In the same year he received the City of Vienna Prize for the Society of Fine Artists in Austria for his artistic activities. Between 1980 and 1985 Viktor Lederer held annual atelier shows together with his wife Diana Lederer-Chesham in Stadtschlaining and Rechnitz in Burgenland. In 1980 Lederer also organized exhibitions in Oberwart and in the Mattersburg cultural center . During the same period in 1982, a two-person meeting with his wife took place in the Ethnographic Museum Schloss Kittsee , which had set itself the task of showing selected exhibits from the folk culture of Eastern and Southeastern Europe, including numerous portraits and landscapes by Viktor Lederer from Burgenland, which be counted among his early work today.

In 1987 the Burgenland Provincial Government invited the first representative exhibition to the Esterházy Palace , which aroused great interest in the art scene, and so the collector Rudolf Leopold became aware of Lederer. This was followed by expositions at Galerie Austria, Galerie Lehner, Altstadtgalerie Hall, Galerie 1990, Galerie 43 and Galerie Morteveille. In 2002, as part of a special exhibition at the International Art Fair of the Künstlerhaus Wien, the Galerie Ziwna presented the painting cycle “In the Twilight of Memory” made by Lederer in the 1980s. The anniversary exhibition of the Lehner Gallery on the occasion of Viktor Lederer's 70th birthday in 2005 was opened by the former Mayor of Vienna Helmut Zilk . After a serious illness in 2008, Lederer was unable to continue his artistic activity. Works by Viktor Lederer are owned by the Austrian Museum of Folklore , the Leopold Foundation ( Leopold Museum ) and the Hans Schmid Private Foundation.

literature

  • Brigitte Marschall: Viktor Lederer: Landscapes, body images. Publishing house Plöchl. ISBN 3-901407-59-6
  • Brigitte Marschall: Viktor Lederer: People, landscape, sounds of color - oil paintings by Viktor Lederer. Publishing house Plöchl. ISBN 3-901407-31-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Elisabeth Vavra: Viktor Lederer. Memory of the land, accessed March 5, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Viktor Lederer. Galerie Lehner Vienna, accessed on March 5, 2019 .
  3. ^ Vienna history Wiki editor: Künstlerhaus prices. In: Vienna History Wiki. Vienna History Wiki, February 19, 2019, accessed on May 3, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Viktor Lederer. Retrieved March 5, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Viktor Lederer. In: Didier Morteveille. Retrieved March 5, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Lederer, Viktor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 2nd January 2017
Place of death Vienna