Wolfgang Walkensteiner

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Wolfgang Walkensteiner (* 1949 in Klagenfurt ) is an Austrian painter .

Life

Wolfgang Walkensteiner was born in Klagenfurt in 1949. From 1967 to 1968 he studied architecture under Norbert Schlesinger at the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna , and from 1968 to 1973 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Max Weiler . In 1974 he received the Austrian State Scholarship for Fine Arts.

In his pictures between 1974 and 1975, Walkensteiner dealt intensively with Weiler's art. "Paintings like Morning Tree , In Thicket , or The Night of the Tree , as well as the watercolors floating in the white of the paper, thematically as well as in the painterly style, adopt the artistic language of the characteristic landscapes of Weiler." - Silvie Steiner Walkensteiner was at the 37th Venice Biennale Represented in 1976 with his painting "Die Nacht des Baumes", Germany with the installation " Straßenbahnhaltestelle / Tram Stop / Fermata del Tram " (1961–1976) by Joseph Beuys .

Between 1976 and 1980, Walkensteiner dedicated himself to installations and works that have a spatial reference. In the "Interieurs" series (1977–1978) he still made use of the two-dimensional image surface, and object installations were created a year later. "In addition to impressions from dealing with the art of Joseph Beuys and Marcel Duchamps , these works also contain reflections on a gestural, actionist position." -Silvie Steiner 1980 he returned to painting. In his self-portraits in the series "Triangle, caput mortuum - a secret anatomy", Walkensteiner finally broke away from Weiler's formal language .

The background of his figurative painting mostly remained monochrome until the mid-1990s. The figures stand out clearly from the background. At the end of the 1990s, the figures partially dissolve in the painting ground, the background is of greater interest in painting.

Walkensteiner has been a member of the Carinthian Art Association since 1972, and a member of the Society of Visual Artists in Vienna since 1994. From 2000 to 2002 he was the cultural advisory board for the fine arts of the state of Carinthia. 2000 to 2009 Vice President of the Carinthian Art Association.

As a homage to the writer Gert Jonke , who died in 2009, Walkensteiner installed his work Der ferne Klang in the Robert Musil Literature Museum in Klagenfurt in the form of 9 picture panels.

Walkensteiner lives and works in Vienna.

Prices

  • 1972 Silver Füger Medal for Graphics, Vienna
  • 1972 Paul Troger Prize for Painting, Vienna
  • 1972 INTART three-country biennial, Udine, 1st prize
  • 1972 Grand Concours International de Peinture, Musée 2000 Luxembourg, purchase price
  • 1973 Award for the fine arts of the Province of Carinthia
  • 1973 Golden Füger Medal for Graphics, Vienna
  • 1973 Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, master school award
  • 1975 Dr. Leopold Goess Prize for Fine Arts

Personal exhibitions

  • 1971 Gallery M 59, Graz
  • 1977 Gallery at the Stubenbastei, Vienna
  • 1986 Atelier 2000, Vienna
  • 1986 BINZ 39 Gallery, Zurich
  • 1996 Municipal Gallery, Lienz
  • 2000 Hofstätter Gallery, Vienna
  • 2002 Gallery Peithner-Lichtenfels, Vienna
  • 2005 Gorenski Muzej, Kranj, Slovenia
  • 2005 Galerija Prešernove Hiše, Kranj, Slovenia
  • 2005 Galerija V Mestni Hiši, Kranj, Slovenia
  • 2005 Mala Galerija Kranj, Slovenia
  • 2007 "Embodiment", Galerie Elisabeth Michitsch, Vienna
  • 2009 "manic masses", Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna
  • 2009 "G for Jonke", Literature Museum, Klagenfurt
  • 2011 "mahler cometix", Musikforum Viktring, Klagenfurt
  • 2012 "OGU", Sala Terrena in Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna
  • 2013 Center of Contemporary Art M17, Kiev
  • 2013 Eurogold art gallery, Zhitomir (UKR)
  • 2014 "Greetings from Tel Aviv", Israel
  • 2015 "ce soir", forum mozartplatz, Vienna
  • 2015 "as good as nothing", MMKK Museum of Modern Art Carinthia, Klagenfurt
  • 2017 "PLACE AND PLACE", Palais de Beaux Arts BOZAR, Brussels
  • 2018 Galerie du Tableau, Marseilles
  • 2018 Kunstraum Lindenhof, Raabs-Thaya
  • 2018 "this uneasy reason, sometimes", Rudolfiner Private Clinic, Vienna
  • 2019 "DIRECTOR's CUT", Hall of Mirrors of the Carinthian Goverment, Klagenfurt
  • 2019 Works from the work block "DIRECTOR's CUT", Amthof Feldkirchen, Felkrichen
  • 2020 "nothing you can see" Stadtgalerie, Wiener Neustadt
  • 2020 Kunsthalle Leoben, Leoben

Participation in exhibitions

  • 1972 INTART three-country biennial, Udine
  • 1972 Musée 2000, Luxembourg
  • 1976 37th Venice Biennale , Italy
  • 1980 "Correcti Altudi - 10 Artisti della Carincia", Austrian Cultural Institute in Rome
  • 1982 Autrichien Institute, Paris
  • 1991 Cité des Arts Internationales, Paris
  • 1994 Taidemuseo, Lapinlahden, Finland
  • 1998 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
  • 2001 Salon d'Automne, Paris
  • 2002 Intart Biennale, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • 2005 "Companions", Galeria Prisma, Bozen, Italy
  • 2007 “swapped 2”, K / haus Galerie, Künstlerhaus Vienna
  • 2009 "The distant sound", homage to Gert Jonke, Robert-Musil-Literatur-Museum Klagenfurt
  • 2010 Foundation of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Almaty (KAS)
  • 2011 focus collection 02. VIEWS. Images of people, Museum of Modern Art Carinthia, Klagenfurt
  • 2013 Cover-up_curated by Anthony Hudek, Liverpool Tate Gallery, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
  • 2013 focus collection 04. ANIMALS, Museum of Modern Art Carinthia, Klagenfurt
  • 2014 Museum Angerlehner, Wels
  • 2014 WienOne by Galerie Robert Weber, Munich, brick-5, Vienna
  • 2014 TwinTownArt 1 Klagenfurt - Dachau “Remembering”, Alpen-Adria-Galerie, Klagenfurt
  • 2015 Burning Questions, Künstlerhaus Vienna
  • 2015 TwinTownArt 2 - Dachau "Remember", artists' association, Dachau
  • 2016 Eye Views, Museum Liaunig, Neuhaus | Suha (AUT)
  • 2018 "Frame tilted at an angle. The Liaunig Collection in motion", Museum Liaunig , Neuhaus / Suha (AUT)
  • 2019 "Sincerely dedicated to the future", Museum Liaunig, Neuhaus / Suha (AUT)

Publicly owned works

  • Collection of the City of Vienna
  • Federal Ministry of Art, Vienna
  • Carinthian State Gallery
  • Museum of Modern Art Carinthia MMKK, A
  • City of Klagenfurt Collection
  • City of Villach Collection
  • City of Lienz Collection
  • Mestna Galerija, Ljubljana, SLO
  • Mestna-Galerija, Ljubljana
  • New gallery at the Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
  • Austrian Gallery, Upper Belvedere Vienna
  • Kastejev Museum, Almaty, KAS
  • Museum Liaunig, Neuhaus | Suha, A
  • Bernhard and Elisabeth Hainz Collection, Vienna, A

literature

  • Thomas fence screen: Wolfgang Walkensteiner. In: Aspects of the landscape. New gallery at the Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz and Kärntner Landesgalerie, Klagenfurt, 1974.
  • Lee Springschitz: Walkensteiner. In: Hoflehner, Kedl, Wukounig, Walkensteiner. XXXVII Biennale di Venezia 1976. Austria, Vienna, 1976.
  • Arnulf Rohsmann: Wolfgang Walkensteiner "opening the center". In: Sechserlei, Künstlerhaus, Klagenfurt, 1981/82.
  • Wolfgang Walkensteiner. Hole in the body. In. Michael Kos, Egon Straszer (ed.): DINGE, an sich. Wieser Verlag, Klagenfurt 2004.
  • Marko Košan in "Head for Heads", Gorenski Muzej, Kranj, Slovenia, 2005
  • Bernd Czechner and Wolfgang Walkensteiner: The pictures in the head, the painter in the ear. In: Gorenski Muzej, Kranj, Slovenia, 2005.
  • Bernd Czechner: Wolfgang Walkensteiner. In: Vernissage, Vienna 2005.
  • Silvie Aigner: Body's Short Stories. In: Die Brücke, Klagenfurt, 2005.
  • Silvie Aigner: Crossover II. Künstlerhaus Klagenfurt , 2005.
  • Yves Kobry: Walkensteiner's Biomorphism in PARNASS, March 2007.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cit. from "Wolfgang Walkensteiner - Courage of the Painter", Ritter Verlag, 1999. P. 11 ISBN 3-85415-264-7 .
  2. ↑ cit. from "Wolfgang Walkensteiner - Courage of the Painter", Ritter Verlag, 1999. P. 12 ISBN 3-85415-264-7 .

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personal data
SURNAME Walkensteiner, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Klagenfurt