Wolfgang Baumüller

Wolfgang Baumüller (born May 22, 1954 in Kollerschlag ) is an Austrian art manager , art producer and founder of the Kollerschlag workshop.

Live and act

Wolfgang Baumüller learned the trade of retail salesman . In 1983 he took over his parents' business, a department store in Kollerschlag . His father Heinrich Baumüller, a businessman who died in 1978, was also a sculptor. From 1978 to 1983 the business was run as a widow's business.

In 1980 he married the kindergarten teacher Maria, née Höfler, with whom he has four children. The couple lives in Kollerschlag. His older brother Heinz Baumüller studied art in Linz and Düsseldorf and always brought international artist friends home with him. These circumstances meant that he became interested in art at an early age and began to collect it.

In 1985 he founded the Kollerschlag workshop with his brothers Heinz and Werner Baumüller , with the aim of bringing international artists to Kollerschlag and making their sculptures together with local craftsmen. The former stables of the parents' house have been converted into exhibition rooms. After the grocery store closed in 1988, the sales rooms were also converted into a gallery. Numerous vernissages have taken place since the Kollerschlag workshop was founded. The concept of the Kollerschlag workshop was changed after ten years of exhibition activity. Instead of presenting their own exhibitions, they devoted themselves to the conception and realization of art in public space - art and architecture.

In 2008, Wolfgang Baumüller handed over the role of managing director to his younger brother Werner; he is still primarily responsible for the production of the commissioned artistic works. It also offers regional performing artists an opportunity to perform in a self-built, 7 meter high tipi .

He is also the founding chairman of the regional cultural association “Grenzgänger - Association for Village Development and Culture in Kollerschlag”.

Commissioned works (selection)

Vito Acconci , Joseph Beuys , Jonathan Borofsky , Tony Cragg , Felix Droese , Alfred Haberpointner , Jan Hamilton Finlay, Anselm Glück , Erwin Heerich , Georg Herold , Jene Highstein, Harald Klingelhöller , Imi Knoebel , Per Kirkeby , Peter Kogler , Jeff Koons , Brigitte Kowanz , Thomas Locher , Matt Mullican , Dennis Oppenheim , Ortner & Ortner , Walter Pichler , David Rabinowitch , Sabine Richter, Eva Schlegel , Susana Solano , Keith Sonnier , Daniel Spoerri , Johannes Stüttgen , Rolf Walz , Isolde Wawrin , Lawrence Wiener , Erwin Wurm .

Exhibitions (selection)

Works from the Kollerschlag workshop were on display: Palais Liechtenstein , Vienna (A); Kröller-Müller Museum , Otterlo (NL); Center National d'Art, Contemporain de Grenoble (F); New Port Harbor Museum (USA); Tramway, Glasgow (GB); IVAM, Valencia (E); Biennale, Venice (I); Kunsthalle Krems , Krems (A); Documenta, Kassel (D); ICA, London (GB), Leo Castelli Gallery, New York (USA); Lisson Gallery, London (GB); Museum Narodnis Gallery, Prague (CZ); Ace Gallery, New York (USA), Van Abbemuseum , Eindhoven (NL); State Gallery Stuttgart (D); Museum der Moderne Salzburg with Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery (A); Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum , Duisburg (D); Kunsthalle Rostock (D); Martin Gropius-Bau, Berlin (D); Overbeck Society, Lübeck (D), Museu de Arte Contemporanea, Porto (P); Municipal Gallery Lenbachhaus - Munich (D); Wolfsburg Art Museum (D); Lucerne Art Museum (CH); Kunsthalle Basel (CH); Lentos , Art Museum Linz (A); Künstlerhaus Bregenz (A); Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles (USA); Art bunker Tumulka, Munich (D); aedes, Vienna (A); Museum of Modern Art Passau (D); Ismaning Sculpture Park (D); Museum Liaunig Neuhaus (A).

Awards

2019: Saint Anna Prize

literature

Art: Holes and Trimmings Der Spiegel 20/1996, May 13, 1996, accessed on May 15, 2018.
Martina Gahleitner: Art outside the protection zones: Werkstatt Kollerschlag has set standards all over Europe. In: Tips Linz , December 5, 2017, accessed on May 15, 2018.

Web links

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Baumüller, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian art manager, art producer
DATE OF BIRTH	May 22, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kollerschlag

[1] shop Heinrich Baumuller, 1961

[2] Heinrich Baumüller, a late caller of the arts 1973

[3] Association for Village Development and Culture in Kollerschlag

[4] Cultural association “Grenzgänger” is indispensable.

[5] Heimatbuch is being created online.

[6] The cross-border commuters are here!

[7] A life as a total work of art: Wolfgang Baumüller awarded the St. Anna Prize. July 28, 2019, accessed July 28, 2019 .