Willy sale

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Willy Sales (born March 6, 1917 in Zurich ; † February 12, 1994 in Vienna ), artist name André Verlon, also known as Willy Sales-Verlon, was a Swiss - Israeli - Austrian visual artist, writer, publisher and publicist.

biography

Sales came to Vienna as a child. In 1933 he emigrated to Palestine. He worked as a gardener , writer , bookseller , publisher , art dealer and visual artist . During the National Socialist era he was also active as a resistance fighter . He was also director of the KPÖ party publisher Globus and published magazines such as Das Tagebuch , Erbe und Zukunft and Die Bücherschau .

In 1946 he returned to Vienna, where he published the magazine Erbe und Zukunft until 1948 . In 1958, Vertrieb took on the name André Verlon and devoted himself exclusively to art. Influences of Boccioni's futuristic collages , of the Suprematist Malevichs , as well as the paper collés of the Cubists can be found in Verlon's own definition as well as those of Heartfield's photomontages . They are political images full of explosive content in an experimental design. He is considered to be the inventor of montage painting. As early as 1961, he was represented in the groundbreaking exhibition The Art of Assemblage at MoMA , New York, alongside works by Marcel Duchamp , Ernst and Oppenheim. From 1961 to 1971 he was domiciled in Paris and then lived mainly in Vienna again.

Sale was excluded from the KPÖ in 1948 . With his third wife, he donated the Willy and Helga Sales-Verlon Prize for anti-fascist Austrian journalism , which is awarded by the Documentation Archive of Austrian Resistance . Sales was also chairman of the Theodor Kramer Society from 1987 until his death , which in turn awards the Theodor Kramer Prize .

Sale rests together with his wife Helga in an honorary grave in Vienna's central cemetery (group 40, number 167).

Publications

Solo exhibitions

Solo exhibitions:

1961 Galerie Klihm, Munich

1962 Kunsthalle Düsseldorf

1962 Brook Street Gallery, London

1962 D'Arcy Galleries, New York

1963 Galerie Arditti, Paris

1963 Galerie d'Art Moderne, Basel

1963 International House, Denver

1963 Academy of Arts, Memphis USA

1963 Galleria Arturo Schwarz, Milano

1963 Galleria Penelope, Roma

1964 Museum of Art, Athens USA

1964 Galleria Incontro, Salerno

1964 Galleria Guida, Napoli

1964 Künstlerhaus , Vienna

1964 Landesmuseum, Graz

1964 New Gallery of the City of Linz

1965 Galleria Lerici, Carrara

1965 International Arts Festival, Town-Hall, Harlow

1965 Alwin Gallery, London

1966 La Case d'Art, Paris

1967 Le Solstice Gallery, Marseille

1967 Hasenclever Gallery, Cologne

1967 Festival d'Automne, Ville de Champigny

1967 Galleria Penelope, Roma

1968 Galleria d'Arte Moderna Il Vaglio Firenze

1968 Modern Art Center Vienna

1969 Museum of Modern Art, Haifa

1969 Old Jaffa Gallery, Tel Aviv

1969 Zivot, Bratislava

1969 Dum umeni, Brno

1969 Svaz, Ales, Praha

1970 Ida Niggli Gallery, St.Gallen

1970 La Daurade Gallery, Toulouse

1970 FNAC, Paris

1971 Austrian Institute, New York

1973 Galerie Würthle , Vienna

1973 Tao Gallery, Vienna

1974 Gallery Busam, Berlin

1975 Bawag Foundation, Vienna

1975 City Hall Gallery Marl

1976 Austrian Gallery Belvedere , Vienna

1984 MMK Palais Liechtenstein , Vienna

1986 Austrian Gallery Belvedere , Vienna

2017 Kunsthandel Hieke, Vienna

swell

  • Entry on Willy sales in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
  • ORF1: Willy Sales-Verlon ( Memento from March 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  • DÖW: Willy and Helga Sales-Verlon Prize of the DÖW for Austrian anti-fascist journalism
  • Alexander Emanuely : Legacy and Collage - Life and Work of Willy Sales-Verlon. In: Even words have limits. Poems 1935-1993 . With an afterword by Alexander Emanuely. Theodor Kramer Gesellschaft, Vienna 2015. Pages 131–149
  • Constance Apel, Jean-Lou Cloos, Emile Scholtes: Willy Sales (Andre Verlon). Between exile and home. In: Manfred Bobrowsky (ed.) Feeling history. Austrian journalists in resistance. Picus Verlag, 279 p., Vienna 1990, p. 207 ff.
  • Willi Sales (André Verlon) - Between exile and home. By Constance Apel, Jean-Lou Cloos, Emile Scholtes, video film 75 min., Vienna 1988, Oral Video History project, © Ass.-Prof. Dr. Manfred Bobrowsky, Institute for Media and Communication Studies at the University of Vienna
  • André Verlon, paintings and collages, Belvedere Vienna 1976
  • André Verlon, collage and montage painting 1958-1983, MuMok Vienna 1984
  • André Verlon - Paintings Tableaux 1960 - 1985, Belvedere Vienna 1986
  • Dieter Schrage, Montage as a Principle in the Work of Willy Lauf-Verlon, Vienna 1992
  • André Verlon 1917 - 1994, Kunsthandel Hieke, Vienna 2017

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personal data
SURNAME Sale, Willy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Verlon, Andre; Sale Verlon, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss-Israeli-Austrian visual artist, writer, publisher and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1994
Place of death Vienna