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Drehnung I / Rotation I
By Walter Strobl
Located in Wien, 9
Walter Strobl opens a new chapter in his explorations of the neverending tension between stillness and movement. Strobl´s vibrant nudes capture women in movement: they are there and gone again, letting the pictoral space pulsate with both the presence and absence of the outlines of their bodies. He paints women with a keen interest in the lived experience of the body, avoiding clichees in his depictions. The viewer is excluded from this inner sensation, but it is precisely the privacy of the model`s slumber that permits us to revel in our own proprioception. His cityscapes and still lives tell their...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Neben der Augartenbrücke
Located in Wien, 9
Elke Schönberger ist am 31 Mai 1966 in Wien geboren, lebt und arbeitet in Wien.
Nichts könnte die Arbeit von Elke Schönberger unzutreffender beschreib...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Allee Schönbrunn
Located in Wien, 9
Elke Schönberger ist am 31 Mai 1966 in Wien geboren, lebt und arbeitet in Wien.
Nichts könnte die Arbeit von Elke Schönberger unzutreffender beschreib...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Kagrantis
Located in Wien, 9
Elke Schönberger ist am 31 Mai 1966 in Wien geboren, lebt und arbeitet in Wien.
Nichts könnte die Arbeit von Elke Schönberger unzutreffender beschreib...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Jenseits / Beyond
Located in Wien, 9
Elke Schönberger ist am 31 Mai 1966 in Wien geboren, lebt und arbeitet in Wien.
Nichts könnte die Arbeit von Elke Schönberger unzutreffender beschreib...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Fairytale
Located in Wien, 9
Xenia Ostrovskaya was born on August 7, 1989 in Leningrad, Soviet Union. She lives and works in Vienna.
The artist explores ideas of heritage and belonging in her work, juxtaposing t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
Paris Blue Bird
Located in Wien, 9
Xenia Ostrovskaya was born on August 7, 1989 in Leningrad, Soviet Union. She lives and works in Vienna.
The artist explores ideas of heritage and belonging in her work, juxtaposing t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Viennese Breakfast
Located in Wien, 9
Xenia Ostrovskaya was born on August 7, 1989 in Leningrad, Soviet Union. She lives and works in Vienna.
The artist explores ideas of heritage and belonging in her work, juxtaposing t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
Motherhood
Located in Wien, 9
Xenia Ostrovskaya was born on August 7, 1989 in Leningrad, Soviet Union. She lives and works in Vienna.
The artist explores ideas of heritage and belonging in her work, juxtaposing t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
Happily Ever After
Located in Wien, 9
Xenia Ostrovskaya was born on August 7, 1989 in Leningrad, Soviet Union. She lives and works in Vienna.
The artist explores ideas of heritage and belonging in her work, juxtaposing t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
Fasching / Carneval
By Alfred Wickenburg
Located in Wien, 9
Monogr. and dat. lower left: AW / 37
The work is present in the catalogue raisonné of the Belvedere under the number Ex 26402.
Provenance: Private property, Graz (Austria)
Catalogu...
Category
1970s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Klage (Die orangene Stadt)
By Robert Hammerstiel
Located in Wien, 9
In his painting, Robert Hammerstiel is in constant search of the balance and harmony of form. In his drastic reduction to the physical essentials and the colourful placarding, he cre...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Der Hundemann
By Robert Hammerstiel
Located in Wien, 9
In his painting, Robert Hammerstiel is in constant search of the balance and harmony of form. In his drastic reduction to the physical essentials and the colourful placarding, he cre...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Blockade Stillleben (Hommage à Karl Schmidt Rottluff)
By Robert Hammerstiel
Located in Wien, 9
In his painting, Robert Hammerstiel is in constant search of the balance and harmony of form. In his drastic reduction to the physical essentials and the colourful placarding, he cre...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Begegnung
By Robert Hammerstiel
Located in Wien, 9
In his painting, Robert Hammerstiel is in constant search of the balance and harmony of form. In his drastic reduction to the physical essentials and the colourful placarding, he cre...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Danse du ventre devant homme impassible
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Wien, 9
Signed with artist stamp lower right, numbered lower left: 21/50
Shown in: Georges Bloch, Pablo Picasso Catalogue of the printed work 1970-72, Band I...
Category
1970s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Femme Couchée et Deux Visages
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Wien, 9
Femme couchée et deux visages, from Suite 156, 1970
signed on lower right, dated in the plate higher right
Georges Bloch, Catalogue de l'oeuvre gravé et lit...
Category
1970s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Le Delire du Couturier, Bleu, Rouge, Vert
By Joan Miró
Located in Wien, 9
signed on lower right, numbered 2/30 lower left
Category
1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Lithograph
Portugese man o´war
Located in Wien, 9
Xenia Ostrovskaya's work explores ideas of heritage and belonging by juxtaposing the Anthropocene world and its memorabilia with sculptural representations of flora and fauna. The no...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Entfernung (Serie) - 3/30 - Nr.5
Located in Wien, 9
Auguste Kronheim was born in Amsterdam in 1937. The artist makes woodcuts and drawings. She received her training in drawing from Hanns Kobinger and graduated from the Linz Federal T...
Category
20th Century Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Entfernung (Serie) - 3/30 - Nr.4
Located in Wien, 9
Auguste Kronheim was born in Amsterdam in 1937. The artist makes woodcuts and drawings. She received her training in drawing from Hanns Kobinger and graduated from the Linz Federal T...
Category
20th Century Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Maler und Modell (rot) / Painter and Model (red)
By Fritz Aigner
Located in Wien, 9
Fritz Aigner (1930 - 2005) was an Austrian artist who has been a solitary figure in the Austrian art scene of the 20th century throughout his life, defying any categorisation of art ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
Selbstporträt mit Lupe (rot) / Selfportrait with blue magnifying glass (blue)
By Fritz Aigner
Located in Wien, 9
Extremely rare testprint (unique piece). In the testprints the eye trough the glass in become a skull. This is phase one, where you can still see the full eye.
Fritz Aigner (1930 ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
Maler und Modell
By Fritz Aigner
Located in Wien, 9
Fritz Aigner (1930 - 2005) was an Austrian artist who has been a solitary figure in the Austrian art scene of the 20th century throughout his life, defying any categorisation of art ...
Category
1970s Modern Nude Photography
Materials
Etching
La Belle Epoque Novelle
By John W. Mills
Located in Wien, 9
John William Mills (born 4 March 1933, London) is an English sculptor.
He studied at Hammersmith School of Art, 1947–54, and at the Royal College of Art, 1956–60. He was a resident ...
Category
1970s Modern Nude Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Jerome Robbins
By John W. Mills
Located in Wien, 9
John William Mills (born 4 March 1933, London) is an English sculptor.
He studied at Hammersmith School of Art, 1947–54, and at the Royal College of Art, 1956–60. He was a resident ...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Adentrarse en el Desierto
By Eduardo Roca
Located in Wien, 9
Since the beginning of his career, Roca has moved with a high level of technical skill, a feel for light and color in the – at first glance – classic genres of landscape, still life ...
Category
2010s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Blumenkrug / Flower Jug
By Helmut Verch
Located in Wien, 9
Helmut Verch (1923-2002) was born in Berlin in 1923 and worked as a painter and graphic artist. In the 1940s, after his release from Russian captivity, he received artistic training ...
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dächer und Türme / Roofs and Towers
By Helmut Verch
Located in Wien, 9
Helmut Verch (1923-2002) was born in Berlin in 1923 and worked as a painter and graphic artist. In the 1940s, after his release from Russian captivity, he received artistic training ...
Category
1970s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sitting girl with open book
Located in Wien, 9
As a pupil of William Straube, Dora Hitz, Max Pechstein and Willy Jaeckel, Edith Meyer von Kamptz achieved her own individual aesthetic designs with colourfu...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ohne Titel
Located in Wien, 9
Margarethe Hollegha is a Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1935 in Vienna.
The picture is framed with a gilded flat moulding.
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Oggetto Matematico (Mathematical Object )
By Man Ray
Located in Wien, 9
Man Ray is considered a representative of Dadaism and Surrealism. He was born in Philadelphia in 1890. Man Ray was active as a painter, object artist, photographer and film director. His art assemblages deal with questions about the unconscious, the apparent and the mythical. What is present behind what is represented or not is Ray's preoccupation in conceiving his experiments with different materials and techniques. He has his first solo exhibition at the Daniel Gallery in New York. Together with Marcel Duchamp he founded the DADA group in New York. In 1921 Ray moved to Paris, where he worked in the Montparnasse environment with artists such as Dalí, Ernst, Matisse, Miró, Mondrian and Tanguy. In 1922 there is a split in Paris between the Dadaists and the Surrealists. Man Ray joins the co-founders of Surrealism. National Socialism, which also showed its effects in Paris in the late 1930s, prompted the Jewish artist to decide to leave the country. After a major appearance at Georges Wildenstein's Beaux-Arts Gallery in Paris in the exhibition "Exposition Internationale du Surrealisme", he fled to New York via Spain and Portugal. After the Second World War, he brought the artistic collection he had left in Paris to the USA. As he could not enjoy the success and prestige in America that he had enjoyed in Paris, he returned to Paris in 1951. In 1958, the artist took part in the exhibition "Dada. Documents of a Movement" at the Kunstverein Düsseldorf and in the large Dada exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. His first major retrospective is shown at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1966. Man Ray died in Paris in 1976, leaving behind the "Man Ray Trust", a foundation established by his widow.
Between 1934-36 Man Ray photographed...
Category
1930s Surrealist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Selbstporträt / Selfportrait
Located in Wien, 9
Julius Zimpel
* 30.8.1896 Vienna, † 11.8.1925 Vienna
"First artistic inspiration by his uncle Gustav Klimt. 1911-16 attended the School of Arts and Crafts under F. Cizek, A. v. Ken...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Arkadien, Abend am See (Evening at the Lake)
By Markus Lüpertz
Located in Wien, 9
Markus Lüpertz was born in Reichenberg in 1941 and works as a German painter, graphic artist and sculptor. He lives and works in Berlin, Karlsruhe, Düsseldorf and Florence and has hi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Häuser in einer Landschaft
Located in Wien, 9
In expressionist style, a house surrounded by trees and bushes is shown. The reduction to the essential reinforces the impression of the anonymous village. Henri Schäfer...
Category
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Szene aus der Operette "Aventures du roi pausole"
By Mariette Lydis
Located in Wien, 9
Mariette Lydis (Vienna 1887 - Buenos Aires 1970) is an Austrian painter and illustrator who was successful in Paris in the 1930s, in Montparnasse and then in Argentina, where she emigrated in 1940. Mariette Lydis was born on 24 August in Vienna, Austria 1887. From 1919 to 1922 she signed her works with the initials MPK for Marietta Pachoffer Karñy, a name derived from her first marriage in 1910 to Julius Koloman Pachoffer-Karñy, who died on 22 April 1922. Subsequently she lived in different cities around Europe, among others: Athens and Florence. She moved to France from 1926 to 1939, during these years she exhibited and became a member of the Salon d'Automne. She befriended Count Giuseppe Govone, the art publisher, in 1928 and married him on 1 August 1934, for whom she illustrated the books of many authors and cultivated a great friendship with Henry de Montherlant, which came about through the publication of a first in 1938 monograph by the author of Les Jeunes Filles. Fearing the German invasion, she travelled to England and then to Buenos Aires in July 1940, where she stayed and published published her latest paintings...
Category
1930s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Milchmädchen mit Kuh / Milkmaid with cow
By Mariette Lydis
Located in Wien, 9
Mariette Lydis (Vienna 1887 - Buenos Aires 1970) is an Austrian painter and illustrator who was successful in Paris in the 1930s, in Montparnasse and then in Argentina, where she emigrated in 1940. Mariette Lydis was born on 24 August in Vienna, Austria 1887. From 1919 to 1922 she signed her works with the initials MPK for Marietta Pachoffer Karñy, a name derived from her first marriage in 1910 to Julius Koloman Pachoffer-Karñy, who died on 22 April 1922. Subsequently she lived in different cities around Europe, among others: Athens and Florence. She moved to France from 1926 to 1939, during these years she exhibited and became a member of the Salon d'Automne. She befriended Count Giuseppe Govone, the art publisher, in 1928 and married him on 1 August 1934, for whom she illustrated the books of many authors and cultivated a great friendship with Henry de Montherlant, which came about through the publication of a first in 1938 monograph by the author of Les Jeunes Filles. Fearing the German invasion, she travelled to England and then to Buenos Aires in July 1940, where she stayed and published published her latest paintings...
Category
1930s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Prozession
Located in Wien, 9
Grete Copony attended various art schools in Germany, such as with Moritz Heymann in Munich and the drawing and painting school of the Association of Berlin Women Artists, and the Budapest Art...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Nachtgespenst / Night ghost
Located in Wien, 9
Franz Rogler (1921 -1994) studied wood and stone sculpture with Wilhelm Gösser at the Graz School of Applied Arts and attended the master class for painting with Rudolf Szyszkowitz. During his studies he was drafted for military service and, together with fellow artist Hans Fronius, was deployed as a war painter in Austria, Germany, Italy, the former Yugoslavia, Greece and Russia. During this time he completed studies at the Academy in Zagreb and organised exhibitions in Austria. In 1944 he deserted and managed to escape to Switzerland, where he settled in Basel after his internment and came into contact with the Swiss Surrealists of "Group 33" and with the artists Hans Arp, Max Ernst and Meret Oppenheim through his friend Regula Weilenmann. After the end of the war, he studied at the Basel Art School with Walter Bodmer and Heinrich Müller, which introduced him to Constructivist art. In 1947 Rogler returned to Graz and became a member of the Graz Secession. From 1948 to 1950 he studied at the Vienna Academy with Albert Paris Gütersloh, before returning to Graz as a freelance artist in 1950. In 1953 he received the Art Prize of the City of Graz and his works were published in the first issue of the "Surrealist Publications" edited by Edgar Jené and Paul Celan...
Category
1940s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Du entgehst der Strafe nicht / You do not escape the punishment
Located in Wien, 9
Franz Rogler (1921 -1994) studied wood and stone sculpture with Wilhelm Gösser at the Graz School of Applied Arts and attended the master class for painting with Rudolf Szyszkowitz. During his studies he was drafted for military service and, together with fellow artist Hans Fronius, was deployed as a war painter in Austria, Germany, Italy, the former Yugoslavia, Greece and Russia. During this time he completed studies at the Academy in Zagreb and organised exhibitions in Austria. In 1944 he deserted and managed to escape to Switzerland, where he settled in Basel after his internment and came into contact with the Swiss Surrealists of "Group 33" and with the artists Hans Arp, Max Ernst and Meret Oppenheim through his friend Regula Weilenmann. After the end of the war, he studied at the Basel Art School with Walter Bodmer and Heinrich Müller, which introduced him to Constructivist art. In 1947 Rogler returned to Graz and became a member of the Graz Secession. From 1948 to 1950 he studied at the Vienna Academy with Albert Paris Gütersloh, before returning to Graz as a freelance artist in 1950. In 1953 he received the Art Prize of the City of Graz and his works were published in the first issue of the "Surrealist Publications" edited by Edgar Jené and Paul Celan...
Category
1940s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Jünglinge / Youths
Located in Wien, 9
Franz Rogler (1921 -1994) studied wood and stone sculpture with Wilhelm Gösser at the Graz School of Applied Arts and attended the master class for painting with Rudolf Szyszkowitz. During his studies he was drafted for military service and, together with fellow artist Hans Fronius, was deployed as a war painter in Austria, Germany, Italy, the former Yugoslavia, Greece and Russia. During this time he completed studies at the Academy in Zagreb and organised exhibitions in Austria. In 1944 he deserted and managed to escape to Switzerland, where he settled in Basel after his internment and came into contact with the Swiss Surrealists of "Group 33" and with the artists Hans Arp, Max Ernst and Meret Oppenheim through his friend Regula Weilenmann. After the end of the war, he studied at the Basel Art School with Walter Bodmer and Heinrich Müller, which introduced him to Constructivist art. In 1947 Rogler returned to Graz and became a member of the Graz Secession. From 1948 to 1950 he studied at the Vienna Academy with Albert Paris Gütersloh, before returning to Graz as a freelance artist in 1950. In 1953 he received the Art Prize of the City of Graz and his works were published in the first issue of the "Surrealist Publications" edited by Edgar Jené and Paul Celan...
Category
1940s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Das Mondgespenst / The ghost of the moon
Located in Wien, 9
Franz Rogler (1921 -1994) studied wood and stone sculpture with Wilhelm Gösser at the Graz School of Applied Arts and attended the master class for painting with Rudolf Szyszkowitz. During his studies he was drafted for military service and, together with fellow artist Hans Fronius, was deployed as a war painter in Austria, Germany, Italy, the former Yugoslavia, Greece and Russia. During this time he completed studies at the Academy in Zagreb and organised exhibitions in Austria. In 1944 he deserted and managed to escape to Switzerland, where he settled in Basel after his internment and came into contact with the Swiss Surrealists of "Group 33" and with the artists Hans Arp, Max Ernst and Meret Oppenheim through his friend Regula Weilenmann. After the end of the war, he studied at the Basel Art School with Walter Bodmer and Heinrich Müller, which introduced him to Constructivist art. In 1947 Rogler returned to Graz and became a member of the Graz Secession. From 1948 to 1950 he studied at the Vienna Academy with Albert Paris Gütersloh, before returning to Graz as a freelance artist in 1950. In 1953 he received the Art Prize of the City of Graz and his works were published in the first issue of the "Surrealist Publications" edited by Edgar Jené and Paul Celan...
Category
1940s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink
CL45
Located in Wien, 9
Mikesch, who had lived in Berlin as a freelancer since 1966, was originally active as a painter and graphic artist. He worked for radio from 1979. He wrote prose texts for children a...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Klare Sicht / Clear View
Located in Wien, 9
Mikesch, who had lived in Berlin as a freelancer since 1966, was originally active as a painter and graphic artist. He worked for radio from 1979. He wrote prose texts for children a...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Entfernung (Serie) - 3/30 - Nr.2
Located in Wien, 9
Auguste Kronheim was born in Amsterdam in 1937. The artist makes woodcuts and drawings. She received her training in drawing from Hanns Kobinger and graduated from the Linz Federal T...
Category
20th Century Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Entfernung (Serie) - 3/30 - Nr.3
Located in Wien, 9
Auguste Kronheim was born in Amsterdam in 1937. The artist makes woodcuts and drawings. She received her training in drawing from Hanns Kobinger and graduated from the Linz Federal T...
Category
20th Century Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Ischia II
By Hans Franta
Located in Wien, 9
If you compare Hans Franta’s earliest works – from around 1911 to 1920 – with his later work from the years after the Second World War, the fact becomes obvious that you are dealing ...
Category
20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Alvin Ailey
By John W. Mills
Located in Wien, 9
John William Mills (born 4 March 1933, London) is an English sculptor.
He studied at Hammersmith School of Art, 1947–54, and at the Royal College of Art, 1956–60. He was a resident ...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Granite, Bronze
Bob Fosse
By John W. Mills
Located in Wien, 9
John William Mills (born 4 March 1933, London) is an English sculptor.
He studied at Hammersmith School of Art, 1947–54, and at the Royal College of Art, 1956–60. He was a resident ...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Frederick Ashton
By John W. Mills
Located in Wien, 9
John William Mills (born 4 March 1933, London) is an English sculptor.
He studied at Hammersmith School of Art, 1947–54, and at the Royal College of Art, 1956–60. He was a resident ...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Lying fawn
By Fritz Heidenreich
Located in Wien, 9
Fritz Heidenreich was a German porcelain sculptor and worked primarily with small sculptures and as a ceramist.
Heidenreich worked for the porcelain manufacturer Rosenthal from 1919...
Category
20th Century Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Message in the Morning
By Robert Hammerstiel
Located in Wien, 9
In his painting, Robert Hammerstiel is in constant search of the balance and harmony of form. In his drastic reduction to the physical essentials and the colourful placarding, he cre...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The yellow separation
By Robert Hammerstiel
Located in Wien, 9
In his painting, Robert Hammerstiel is in constant search of the balance and harmony of form. In his drastic reduction to the physical essentials and the colourful placarding, he cre...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Wooden Heads
Located in Wien, 9
Since Franz Ecker’s early death in 1999 his work has been newly appreciated, what is manifested in numerous exhibitions, catalogues and in the acclaimed film about the artist. He was extremely productive and left behind an almost unmanageable scope of works in various styles. Among them some of the top works that are unparalleled in recent Austrian art history and whose significance has not yet been adequately appreciated.
After finishing his studies in 1966 in class of prof. Sergius Pauser and after receiving his two prizes, Franz Ecker moved back to Leonding where he developed his clear, abstract language of forms. Among his sources of inspiration are Cezanne and Picasso, as well as Martin Polasek who was one of his teachers. This led him to painting in a flat and abstract manner, which triggers a spatial experience through its exact color coordination and strict composition. The strongest period in his oeuvre is the time when his paintings are between figuration and abstraction. Only until around 1975 he additionally creates numerous watercolors, even though he restricts this medium to his more lyrical works.
If Franz Ecker cannot be included in the avant-garde cannon of the 70’s, it is only because he witheld from presenting his works on the art market. Instead of using the opportunities that were offered to him in Vienna, he returned after his time at the academy to Linz where there was no appreciation nor market for his works. Distanced from the established art business, Ecker lives uncompromisingly the precarious life of a lonely genius. An artist myth, which in his case certainly is a bitter reality. Unimpressed by this, Ecker develops an increasingly broad language of forms within the clear line of abstract pictorial conception, which he emphasizes with constantly new forms of signature.
At the end of the seventies his works became more gestural and expressive. His works like “Kafka” anticipate the “Neue Wilden”. When these are celebrated as the “return of painting...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paint, Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
