Walter Ebenhofer
Walter Ebenhofer (* 1952 in St. Valentin , Lower Austria ) is an Austrian photographer .
Live and act
The artist, who lives and works in Steyr , has a technical and pedagogical education and has self-taught knowledge of photography. Already with his first conceptual documentary work Hochsitzobjekte. Sight outlook. This gave him the opportunity to exhibit in public museums and to receive recognition and sponsorship awards as well as several foreign scholarships. This was followed by work cycles with image mixtures and shot images work with a prepared camera. Another focus of his work is architectural photography.
From 1997 to 2001 he ran the Kunsthalle.tmpSteyr in Steyr together with Johannes Angerbauer-Goldhoff and Reinhold Rebhandl under the sponsorship of the Rohstoff association - an art initiative .
Ebenhofer has been a member of the MAERZ artists' association since 1986 . He is a member of the Lower Austrian Initiative for Photo and Media Art FLUSS in Wolkersdorf.
Awards
- 1982 Recognition award for fine arts from the state of Lower Austria
- Promotion Prize of the State of Lower Austria
- 1987 1st place at the 7th Römerquelle art competition
- 1995 Culture Prize of the Province of Upper Austria for Photography
Works
Ebenhofer's works can be found in the Old Town Hall in Linz , in the Lentos Art Museum Linz , in the Steyr State Hospital and in the art collection of the State of Upper Austria.
Exhibitions
- Solo exhibitions
- 1987 Aspects of 20th Century Artistic Photography from the collection of the New Gallery of the City of Linz
- 1987 Rock paintings in the Alpine region. Nordico
- 1990 Mixing of images , Kammerhof Gallery, Gmunden
- 1991 mix of images. High seat objects. Sight outlook. New gallery of the city of Linz
- 1993 conversion. Gallery March
- Group exhibitions
- 1982 Museum of Modern Art Vienna
- 1983 Provincial Museum of Lower Austria
- 1983 Austrian Photography 1982, Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg
- 1987 Association of Austrian Female Artists , Vienna Secession , Vienna
- 1987 New Gallery of the City of Linz
- 1992 The other Middle Ages - emotions, rituals and contrasts Kunsthalle Krems
- 2004 Three positions of conceptual photography. Walter Ebenhofer, Bernhard Fuchs, Tim Otto Roth, March Gallery
- 2005 worlds of life. Heinz Cibulka , Elisabeth Czihak , Ricarda Denzer , Walter Ebenhofer, Heinz Grosskopf , Leo Kandl , Wolfgang Pavlik , Lentos Art Museum Linz
- 2008 With numerous others: Traces of light. Photographs from the collection. Lentos Art Museum Linz
- 2009 Linz view. Cityscapes in Art 1909 to 2009. Lentos Art Museum Linz
Publications
- Photo.spaces. Tragic synchronisms. With the text rhizome. by Peter Zawrel, exhibition catalog, Blau-Gelb Galerie, Vienna 1989, ISBN 3-85460-003-8 .
- Image blending. With the text Moments by Vilém Flusser , edition neue texte, Verlag Droschl, Graz 1991, ISBN 3-900292-64-7 .
- with Waltraud Seidlhofer : 7-star. Photographs from the Gerda and Erich Walter collection. Exhibition catalog. Weitra 1991, ISBN 3-900878-61-7 .
- Drawers with dog. Text by Martin Hochleitner , Galerie im Stifterhaus Linz 2000, and Galerie im Traklhaus Salzburg, ISBN 3-85483-022-X .
- with Reinhold Rebhandl and Elke Schuster : warm up Kunsthalle.TMP Steyr. 1997-2001. Documentation about the five-year exhibition. Published by Vereom Rohstoff, an art initiative. Steyr, Weitra 2001, ISBN 3-85252-514-4 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Walter Ebenhofer, in: Web presence of the Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz queried on December 26, 2015.
- ↑ nextroom : Architectural photos by Walter Ebenhofer on the website of nextroom.at
- ^ Walter Ebenhofer , Works in the Art Collection of the Province of Upper Austria
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ebenhofer, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Valentin (Lower Austria) |