Willy Puchner

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Willy Puchner

Willy Puchner (born March 15, 1952 in Mistelbach , Lower Austria ) is an Austrian photographer , artist , draftsman and author .

Life

Willy Puchner grew up in the Lower Austrian district capital Mistelbach as the son of a photographer couple. From 1967 to 1974 he attended the Federal Graphical Training and Research Institute in Vienna, photography department . After that he was a teacher at the same school for two years. Since 1978 freelance photographer, draftsman, artist and author. From 1983 to 1988 he studied philosophy, journalism, history and sociology. In 1988 he approved with a diploma thesis in social philosophy entitled “About private photography”. Since 1989 regular work for the Wiener Zeitung .

Willy Puchner became famous with the project Die Sehnsucht der Pinguine . He traveled with the polyester penguin figures Joe & Sally for four years to the seaside and into the desert, to New York, Sydney, Beijing and Paris, to Venice, Tokyo, Honolulu and Cairo in order to capture them there. Freddy Langer wrote about this project in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung : “He had them pose in front of famous sights as if they were holidaymakers - and photographed them. So he created what is probably the most beautiful travel photo album of the twentieth century: 'The Penguins' Longing. "

His drawn and handwritten ( travel ) material books, published as Diary of Nature (2001) and Illustrated Fernweh (2006), are “a restless survey of the world”, perhaps also the desire to find one's own place in the coordinate system of the globe. (see also " book illustration ")

Willy Puchner worked a lot with old people, resulting in the projects The 90 Years , Dialogue With Old Age , The 100 Years , Life Story and Photography and Love in Old Age .

Willy Puchner - Pictures from nature's diary

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1980: Vienna, MUMOK , trees
  • 1980: Vienna, Niederösterreichische Galerie Künstlerhaus , The 90-year-olds
  • 1981: Vienna, Palais Pálffy , Persistent Images
  • 1982: Vienna, Museum of the 20th Century, Turkish Living Spaces
  • 1983: Vienna, Museum of Modern Art, village pictures
  • 1984: Bad Ischl, Austrian Photo Museum , village pictures
  • 1992: Graz, Styrian Autumn , The Longing of the Penguins
  • 2001: Vienna, Galerie Atrium ed Arte , At home while traveling
  • 2001: Vienna, Natural History Museum , Nature's Diary
  • 2005: Vienna, Atrium ed Arte Gallery, Stopover New York
  • 2005: Vienna, Galerie Peithner-Lichtenfels, I am ...
  • 2007: Vienna, Main Library Vienna, Illustrated Wanderlust
  • 2008: Vienna, Natural History Museum , Willy Puchner's animal life
  • 2008: Salzburg, Literaturhaus Salzburg , Illustrated Wanderlust
  • 2008: Vienna, Photo Gallery Vienna, Love in Old Age
  • 2009: Vienna, Galerie Peithner-Lichtenfels, Creation is a strange game
  • 2012: Berlin, Austrian Cultural Forum, A Hare on the Move
  • 2014: Munich, International Youth Library , Blutenburg Castle, "Willy Puchner's Universe"
  • 2015: Tbilisi ABC of fabulous princes and princesses , Tbilisi Book Days,
  • 2017: Vienna, Vienna Main Library, Fabulous Sea

International exhibitions

  • Germany: Berlin, Braunschweig, Bremen, Frankfurt am Main, Kleve, Munich
  • Japan: Tokyo, Osaka, Oita, Nagoya, Sapporo
  • United States: Norfolk, Washington (DC)
  • Lebanon: Beirut
  • India: Bombay
  • Georgia: Tbilisi

Publications

Publications in magazines

Puchner has been working as a freelance editor for the Wiener Zeitung since 1989 . In addition, he has had publications in the magazines Extrablatt , Universum , Falter , Konkret , Eselsohr , Mare , Stern , GEO , Life (USA), Corriere della Sera (Italy), Marco Polo (Japan) and many others.

In the weekly travel paper of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Puchner published 89 full-page texts, drawings and collages with the title Puchner's theory of colors until October 2019 alone .

Movie

  • Script (with others): for the movie "Kino im Kopf", director: Michael Glawogger , Vienna 1996

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ FAZ of March 8, 2001
  2. Willy Puchner 'Ein Hase auf Reisen' ( Memento from December 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on Kulturforumberlin.at
  3. Willy Puchner's universe on IJB.de
  4. http://www.goethe.de/ins/ge/de/tif/kul/mag/20656007.html
  5. Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 3, 2017 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.buechereien.wien.at
  6. ^ FAZ of August 16, 2012, page R6
  7. derStandard.at of March 15, 2012 . Retrieved March 16, 2012.
  8. Deutschlandfunk. The best 7 books for young readers dradio.de, October 6, 2012
  9. St. Leopold Peace Prize 2014 ( Memento from October 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on Stift-klosterneuburg.at
  10. https://www.wien.gv.at/rk/msg/2016/12/20002.html
  11. https://www.leserstimmen.at/autorin/willy-puchner