Walter Malli

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Walter Malli, 2011.

Walter Muhammad Malli (born July 13, 1940 in Graz , Styria ; † May 25, 2012 in Vienna ) was an Austrian visual artist and jazz musician ( soprano saxophone , drums ).

Life

Malli first attended the Graz School of Applied Arts . In 1956 he moved to Vienna to study with Carl Unger at the Academy of Applied Arts and with Albert Paris Gütersloh at the Academy of Fine Arts . At the end of the 1950s he dealt with informal painting , dealt with the culture of the Orient , before concentrating on object-oriented pen drawings from 1960 ; It was primarily urban landscapes with swaying houses and imaginative caricatures that emerged. In 1959, he and Richard Pechoc founded the Zum Roten Apfel gallery, which existed in Vienna until 1965.

...as well.

Soon he was also active as a musician: on May 28, 1961, he gave his first concert with the Ahmad Pechoc Trio in the Forum Stadtpark Graz. As a drummer and soprano saxophonist in the Masters of Unorthodox Jazz formation, which existed from 1964 to 1975, and also in the Reform Art Unit , which was active at the same time from 1968 , he was one of the first Austrian musicians to deal with free jazz ; in 1969 there were "scandal concerts" in the Wiener Konzerthaus .

Malli was still active as a musician until the end of his life, working with Franz Koglmann , Steve Lacy and Bill Dixon ( Opium 1976) and also performing at the festival in the Balver Höhle . In 1974 he founded his own group Malli's Free Samba Bassoonery , to which Karl Anton Fleck also belonged. With Paul Fields and Novotny he was active in 1975 among others as Three Motions . Until the late 1970s he also exhibited regularly in Austria and Germany.

From the end of the 1980s Malli also appeared with new interpretations of Wienerlied songs and as a saxophonist with the HipHop Finger project around Hans Holler and Chrono Popp (festival appearance at the Nickelsdorfer Konfrontationen 1992 with Leena Conquest). In Peter Zach's documentary Malli - Artist in Residence, Malli improvised Viennese music from the perspective of free jazz with musicians such as Eugene Chadbourne , Oskar Aichinger , Klaus Peham and Werner Dafeldecker .

Grave at the central cemetery

In 1993 Malli received the award for music from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education and the Arts . Before that, he had already been awarded the City of Vienna Prize and the Prize of the Vienna Art Fund. The artist died in 2012 and was buried in the immediate vicinity of Fatty George in an honorary grave in the Ehrenhain (group 40, no. 185) of the Vienna Central Cemetery.

Discographic notes

  • Masters of Unorthodox Jazz / Reform Art Unit Vienna Jazz Avantgarde (1971)
  • Hot Burrito # 2 (1993, with Eugene Chadbourne, Werner Dafeldecker)
  • Walk slowly through the old streets (2001, with Eugene Chadbourne, Peter Kowald , Sunny Murray )

Exhibitions

literature

  • Andreas Felber : The Viennese free jazz avant-garde. Revolution in the back room Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-205-77256-3
  • Semirah Heilingsetzer, Walter Koschatzky (Ed.) The ›Zum Roten Apfel‹ gallery 1959–1965: Artist positions in Vienna in the 1960s Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-631-50425-X

Web links

Commons : Walter Muhammad Malli  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andreas Felber in Die Wiener Free-Jazz-Avantgarde Böhlau-Verlag Vienna, chap. 3.2.2.2.2, page 73 above
  2. ↑ Andreas Felber Protected Workshops: The emergence of the Viennese free jazz avant-garde in the 1950s and 1960s ( memento of the original from August 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.viennavant.at
  3. ↑ Three Motions is one of the numerous names of the groups around Fritz Novotny, see reformARTmusic (Commons).
    Malli was close and friendly to Novotny and his conception of free music since 1968 and until his death.
personal data
SURNAME Malli, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Malli, Walter Muhammad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian draftsman and musician
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 2012
Place of death Vienna