Walter Navratil
Walter Navratil (born June 24, 1950 in Klosterneuburg , Lower Austria ; † January 10, 2003 ibid) was an Austrian artist . He created his own imagery with motifs and elements from Art brut , ethnology and oriental art and was considered one of the most interesting outsiders of the Austrian art scene in the second half of the 20th century.
Life
Born in 1950 as the son of the psychiatrist couple Erna and Leo Navratil , he grew up in the in-house, parents' service apartment in the Lower Austrian State Psychiatric Clinic Gugging and thus had close contact with the artist-patients of the Austrian Art brut promoted by his father. Among them Johann Hauser , Oswald Tschirtner and August Walla . Walter Navratil lived as a freelance painter in Vienna and rejected contemporary trends. He died in Klosterneuburg at the age of 52.
Exhibitions
He only had sporadic exhibitions, including the Parallel Visions shows in the Los Angeles County Museum, the Kunsthalle Basel, the Setagaya Museum Tokyo and the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn. After almost ten years of reluctance to exhibit in Vienna, he had an exhibition at the Bawag Foundation Vienna in 1998.
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| SURNAME | Navratil, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 24, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Klosterneuburg , Lower Austria |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 10, 2003 |
| Place of death | Klosterneuburg , Lower Austria |