Jos Pirkner's monumental work

On Friday, October 19th while visiting Anni Fuchs at the Ernst Fuchs Museum I met the most fascinating artist, Jos Pirkner, whom Anni introduced me to. His monumental work just left me speechless! 

JOS PIRKNER

Jos Pirkner was born on 2 December 1927 in Sillian, East Tyrol. He attended the School of Applied Arts in Klagenfurt, graduated from the Master School of Applied Arts in Graz. He discovered his love for metalwork as a private student of Rudolf Reinhart in Salzburg.

Website:

 JOS PIRKNER

Articles in German:
Der Letzte Bulle 

Red Bull-Zentrale mit Jos Pirkners Skulptur eröffnet

Fulminante Plastiken sind das Markenzeichen von Jos Pirkner. In jahrelanger Arbeit hat er die Red Bull-Zentrale mit Europas größter Bronzeskulptur geplant und geschaffen.

Excerpt from his Biography, translated from German:

The young artist followed an offer from the Brom brothers in 1951 and began working as an independent gold and silver sculptor for this world-famous studio in the Netherlands. Jos Pirkner was accepted by the Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam and attended as a guest auditor the Free Academy in Utrecht. This city was his second home for the next 25 years. Pirkner opened his own studio and married in 1966 Joke Baegen. Immediately after the birth of his son Gidi, he returned to East Tyrol in 1978. Prof. Jos Pirkner lives with his family in Tristach near Lienz. The work of Jos Pirkner unites imagination and energy. And another, rare quality of a sculptor: the sense of human sensitivity. In the midst of the destruction and poverty of the post-war years, my parents have financed me with an artistic education. Where bread is scarce, art has no value. Nevertheless, my parents advised me to go my own way, as did the Dutch painter Charles Eyk years later, whom I met in Amsterdam. These people have not shaped my work, but my personality as an artist. I owe to them the self-confidence, undeterred by commercial and intellectual fashions, simply to make my art.

I feel privileged to have met this great artist!

Order of the Pope for Jos Pirkner

More information found here (German):
XXL KUNSTMAGAZIN - JOS PIRKNER 

In Pulse of Life - Exhibition Tulln an der Donau

IN PULSE OF LIFE

In Pulse of Life - poster by Fabián Jiménez

More information on this invitation folder:

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Die Stadtgemeinde Tulln

lädt herzlich ein zur Eröffnung

des Kunstprojektes von Gerlinde Zickler

Rosenmädchen Seelenclown

In Pulse of Life 

Gemälde,Objekte, Bücher

Freitag, 24. April 2015, 19 Uhr

Minoritenkloster Tulln

Minoritenplatz 1, 3430 Tulln an der Donau

Ausstellung vom 25. April bis 24. Mai 2015

jeden Mi - So 10 - 17 Uhr

UPDATE:
Slide-show of the opening on my website blog

WOLFGANG HUTTER PASSED AWAY

This is very sad -another Icon of the Fantastic Realists is gone. This would have gone largely unnoticed (what a shame, actually) were it not for Sigrid Nepelius posting in her German language webzine Phantastisch. A quick websearch reveals that there is nothing at all, other than this article on Phantastisch. The papers didn't notice, and neither the english nor the german wikipedia articles had been updated.
ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THIS ARTICLE:
The Phantasten Community mourns one of its greats. The Viennese painter and graphic artist Wolfgang Hutter (13 December 1928) passed away on September 26, 2014. Hutter was a founding member of the Art Club and one of the main representatives of the famous Vienna School of Fantastic Realism. His magical canvasses are worked out to the smallest detail and reveal his sensitive handwriting. Hutter's art encompasses also tapestries and mosaics such as the mosaic floor in the Theater an der Wien. For three decades, Wolfgang Hutter worked as a professor at the Vienna University of Applied Arts. In 1977 he received the Prize of the City of Vienna for Visual Arts, and 2011 he was honored with the Golden Medal for Service to the City of Vienna. Let's hope that the death of Wolfgang Hutter is no longer ignored in the public media. Such a large and internationally important Austrian artist and his family should in any case be granted the final tribute in the form of an honoring obituary. Many thanks to Gerhard Habarta without whom the sad news of the death of Wolfgang Hutter and this little obituary would not exist.

The Vienna School of Fantastic Realism

Austria National Day - Ernst Fuchs honored with Fanfare

ERNST FUCHS HONORED WITH A SPECIAL FANFARE ON HELDENPLATZ

On Saturday October 26th 2013 Austria celebrates it's National Day. The Austrian Armed Forces are on the Heldenplatz in Vienna.
The swearing-in of recruits in the presence of the Federal President and the Federal Government takes place at 10:30 AM. Shortly after 11 AM a special fanfare composed in honor of Prof. Ernst Fuchs will be ceremoniously presented to him.

Foto: Bundesheer/Harald Minich
Nationalfeiertag 2013 in Wien

Bundespräsident Heinz Fischer und Ernst Fuchs
Heldenplatz, Wien, 26.10.2013
Österreichischer Nationalfeiertag
- photo by Vesna Krasnec -

Ernst Fuchs Museum - Facebook Page

Kunstmesse Art Austria - Leopold Museum, Vienna

Austrian Art Fair at the Leopold Museum in Vienna, from April 1tth to 14th, 2013

click image above to see my facebook album of this event.

or, more convenient: here is a picasa slide show:

check the on-line e-magazine (german)

early works by De Es Schwertberger on Vimeo

early works by De Es Schwertberger from De Es Schwertberger on Vimeo.

early works by De Es Schwertberger on Vimeo

Longing for Summer

Being caught in a deep-freeze right now, I fondly look back to the summer months spent in Vienna and surroundings, and later in Montreal:

AUSTRIA SUMMER 2008


FAMYLY RAPP IN AUSTRIA, SUMMER 2008


MONTREAL SUMMER 2008