Walter Prankl

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Walter Prankl (born April 4, 1935 in Wilhersdorf , Lower Austria ) is an Austrian architect and mixed media artist.

Life

Walter Prankl attended secondary school in St. Pölten , completed an apprenticeship as a precision electrical mechanic and then worked at Siemens & Halske in Vienna. In 1959 he completed his secondary education and began studying at the Academy of Applied Arts Vienna with Oswald Haerdtl and Roland Rainer , which he completed in 1965 with a diploma in architecture and urban planning. He then worked until 1970 as an employee in various architecture offices, such as Roland Rainer, Victor Gruen , Bertel Saarnio and Juha Ilmari Leiviskä in Helsinki.

In 1971 he left Austria and from then on alternated between Germany , Finland and Switzerland , but remained connected to Viennese cultural life until around 1980. The reason for his departure abroad was the low response that a traffic planning for Vienna developed by him together with the architect and publicist Günther Feuerstein and the city and traffic planner Gerhard Wallner received.

From 1976 to 1980 Prankl was a media, exhibition and PR specialist for the Federal Ministry for Health, Family and Youth in Vienna. From 1980 to 1987 he worked as a media and exhibition specialist as well as educational director at the Munich Adult Education Center. From 1987 Prankl worked in the fields of environmental design, architecture, urban planning and visual communication, graphic design and education. He is the founder and director of the Platon Academy 4 in Müllheim in southern Baden .

Walter Prankl lives and works in Müllheim. He is married to the designer and photo artist Marga Prankl.

Solo exhibitions

  • 1961: Galerie Junge Generation, Vienna, 34 graphic sheets, catalog introduction: Wilhelm Mrazek
  • 1967: Gallery on the Stubenbastei, Vienna, ink painting, catalog design: Peter Baum

Works (selection)

  • 1967: Otto Wagner, his traffic structures & the Vienna Naschmarkt. Minimanifest: I also live on 4m². Opinion on the dormitory problem, Vienna
  • 1968: What is urban design , Arkkitehti 8/68, Helsinki. Pilot foundation of the 1st magazine for environmental design in Austria: Human Industrial Design, 2 issues. The fourth skin , model of a pedestrian-friendly city. Seminar on Finnish Architecture and Town Planning, No. 2. Editorial staff: Planning, building and living
  • 1970 to 1979: with Peter Baum : electronic records: Editing and editing: Umweltdesign, specialist journal for optical culture. Seat height module: Contribution to ergonomic seating comfort for children and adults
  • 1971: Urban module: Contribution to pedestrian-friendly planning in urban development
  • 1972: Environmental design charter: for the first time a comprehensive concept for a course in environmental design in the area of ​​continuing education
  • 1973: Industrial Design, teoria e pratica nella prospettiva degli anni 70, Milano
  • 1974: Austriado Manifesto: for the first time a comprehensive concept for a regional transport line for the peripheral areas of Austria to solve the problem of the working population and tourism in synergy
  • 1975 to 1977: Coloring books: Cities of Europe, for children and adults
  • 1985 to 2010: Sculptures, linear records: ironic-satirical apocalypse and since 2009 graphic gradations (digital-aesthetic metamorphoses)

Literature (selection)

  • Human Industrial Design magazine , 2 issues, 1968
  • Umwelt-Design, Journal of Optical Culture in poster format, B / W, 59 × 84cm, 1970–1968
  • Online Journal, http://www.kultur-punkt.ch , 1999–2010 ff ...

Catalogs

  • 1977: Documenta Kassel, 30 pp.
  • 1977: Art Market Cologne, 30 pp.
  • 1978: Art Basel, 30 pp.
  • 1978: Venice Biennale, 40 pages
  • 1978: Art market Düsseldorf, 30 p ...

swell

  • Michael Z. Wise: Capital Dilemma, Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 1998; P. 127, competition for a national memorial to Jewish Holocaust victims, ISBN 978-1-56898-134-5
  • Günther Feuerstein: Visionary Architecture Vienna 1958–1988, Ernst & Sohn, Vienna; P. 127, The fourth skin, model of a city, Walter Prankl, Werner Höfer.
  • Industrial Design: teoria e pratica nella prospettiva degli anni 70, 1967; S. 142ff., A paedagogical Design Concept for Italy, W. Prankl
  • Günther Feuerstein: Urban Fiction, Strolling through Ideal Cities from Antiquity to the Present Day; p. 358, The Fourth Skin 1968, model, Walter Prankl, Werner Höfer, ISBN 978-3-930698-26-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ by Zezschwitz Kunst und Design ( Memento of the original from December 15, 2015 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.von-zezschwitz.com
  2. ↑ German National Library
  3. ^ German National Library with Werner Höfer (architect, Lower Austria): model of a city. The fourth skin = La quatrième peau. With a French and English summary, Ranner Verlag, Vienna 1968.
personal data
SURNAME Prankl, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian architect and mixed media artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Wilhersdorf