Walter Salzmann (sculptor)

Walter Salzmann (born May 29, 1930 in Dornbirn ; † March 21, 2008 ) was an Austrian sculptor and ceramist .

Life

Walter Salzmann did a pottery apprenticeship with the ceramist Josef Mäser in Dornbirn from 1945 to 1947. In 1947 he went blind. From 1949 to 1952 he studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna with Robert Obsieger . He had a personal relationship with Fritz Wotruba and met the art theorist Heimo Kuchling . From 1952 he worked as a freelance sculptor and ceramist in Vorarlberg.

Initially, Walter Salzmann worked with clay, from the 1950s and 1960s also in stone. From 1967/1968 abrupt expressive work in clay for bronze casts. In the 1990s, paper works on a wire frame as a template for bronze casts.

Awards

Walter Salzmann received the Theodor Körner Prize for Art and Science in 1959 , the City of Dornbirn Culture Prize in 1963 and the Vorarlberg State Promotion Prize.

Art in public space

• 1962 Museum of the 20th Century Vienna , Sculpture Courtyard, Sculpture
• 1963 New Landhaus Bregenz , crouching figure, bronze casting
• 1965 HAK Bregenz , lute player
• 1981 Cultural Center for the Blind Linz, seated person
• 1994 Götzis municipality, concrete casts

literature

• Artist Lexicon of Fine Arts in Vorarlberg 1945–2005 , pp. 267–268
• Walter Fink (Ed.): The blind seer. Walter Salzmann, sculptor 1930–2008. With the authors Gottfried Bechtold , Susanne Fink , Helmut Swozilek ; Catalog for the exhibition at ORF Vorarlberg in Dornbirn from October 4, 2008 to January 11, 2009, Bucher Verlag, Hohenems 2008, ISBN 978-3-902679-05-5 .