Herbert Albrecht

Her­bert ALBRECHT was born on Feb­ru­ary 7, 1927 in Au-Rehmen in Bre­genz. From 1941 he stud­ied at the Kun­st­gewerbeschule in Inns­bruck (sculp­ture class with Hans Pon­tiller). In 1949 he began his stud­ies at the Acad­e­my of Fine Arts in Vien­na. He attend­ed the sculp­ture class of Franz San­tifall­er, par­al­lel to that the evening act by Her­bert Boeckl. In 1951, Her­bert Albrecht trans­ferred to Fritz Wotruba’s sculp­ture class, which he attend­ed until his grad­u­a­tion in 1955. After his stud­ies Her­bert Albrecht returned to Vorarl­berg. The por­tal sculp­ture for Mehrerau Abbey was cre­at­ed in the ear­ly 1960s and Albrecht began work on his “head series”. From 1964 onwards, the artist reg­u­lar­ly took part in exhi­bi­tions and exhi­bi­tion par­tic­i­pa­tions at home and abroad. The sculp­tor has received numer­ous hon­ors and awards, includ­ing the Hugo-von-Mont­fort Prize (1961), the Theodor-Körn­er Prize (1967), the Sil­ver Medal of Hon­or of the Province of Vorarl­berg (1986) and the Inter­na­tion­al Art Prize of the Province of Vorarl­berg (1987). Her­bert Albrecht used the clas­si­cal sculp­ture mate­ri­als, stone and bronze. His artis­tic inter­est was the human fig­ure, the stand­ing, the sit­ting per­son, espe­cial­ly the head. In 1997 he made the grave­stone for Elias Canet­ti in Zurich. In 1999, the stage design was cre­at­ed in Mehrerau as part of the Bre­genz Fes­ti­val. In 2017, the Kun­sthis­torisches Muse­um in Vien­na, in coop­er­a­tion with the vorarl­berg muse­um in Bre­genz, ded­i­cat­ed an exhi­bi­tion in the rooms of the Antiken­samm­lung to the artist’s 90th birth­day. Her­bert Albrecht died on Octo­ber 9, 2021 in Wol­furt. 1982 — first exhi­bi­tion par­tic­i­pa­tion, 1986 — first solo exhi­bi­tion at Galerie Welz.