Wolfgang Hollegha

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Wolfgang Hollegha, undated, 2007

Wolfgang Hollegha (born March 4, 1929 in Klagenfurt , Carinthia) is an Austrian painter .

biography

From 1947 to 1954 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with Josef Dobrowsky and Herbert Boeckl . In 1956 he founded the “St. Stephan painter group” with Josef Mikl , Markus Prachensky and Arnulf Rainer . In 1960 he was invited by Clement Greenberg to New York to take part in a group exhibition of abstract painters. In 1964 he took part in Documenta 3 in Kassel . He has lived and worked on the Rechberg (Styria) since 1962 , where he had a 15-meter-high wooden studio built according to his plans. From 1972 to 1997 he was professor and head of a master class at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.

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Wolfgang Hollegha is considered one of the most important abstract painters in Austria. On the occasion of an exhibition in the St. Stephan Gallery (1959), the charm of his works was described by one of his most important promoters, Monsignor Otto Mauer , as “Mozart-like”, “that is: sublime without being pontifical”. His works can be found in many private collections as well as in museums around the world (e.g. Albertina , Vienna; Museum für Moderne Kunst Stiftung Ludwig , Vienna; Museum of Art, Portland, Oregon; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh).

“As long as I look at things, they are alive. If I were to stubbornly draw it now, it would suddenly be dead, so I see that my body, the way I move my hand, the shift in gravity that you can feel, that all of this remains in the drawing . The spontaneity of the body plays a role. I don't paint geometrically because you don't see things geometrically. I have always started from nature, from what I see. My basic tendency is to escape geometry. "

- Wolfgang Hollegha

Solo exhibitions

Awards

Collections

Austria

International

Web links

Commons : Wolfgang Hollegha  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Strabag Art Forum, accessed on September 7, 2019
  2. ↑ Appreciation Prize of the State of Styria for Fine Art: Prize Winners ( Memento from April 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved April 17, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Hollegha, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Klagenfurt , Carinthia, Austria