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 switched to Fritz Wotruba’s sculpt­ing class, which he attend­ed until he grad­u­at­ed in 1955. After his stud­ies Her­bert Albrecht returned to Vorarl­berg. In the ear­ly 60’s the por­tal sculp­ture for the Abbey Mehrerau was cre­at­ed and Albrecht start­ed work­ing on his “head series”. From 1964 onwards, the artist reg­u­lar­ly took part in exhi­bi­tions and exhi­bi­tion par­tic­i­pa­tions at home and abroad. Her­bert Albrecht received numer­ous hon­ours and awards, includ­ing the Hugo von Mont­fort Prize (1961), the Theodor Körn­er Prize (1967), the Sil­ver Dec­o­ra­tion of Hon­our 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 dies on 9 Octo­ber 2021 in Wolfurt.
1986 – first par­tic­i­pa­tion in an exhi­bi­tion, 1992 – first solo exhi­bi­tion in the gallery Welz.