Peter Bischof

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Peter Bischof was born in Vien­na in 1934. From 1954 to 1957 he stud­ied at the Acad­e­my of Fine Arts in Vien­na under Pro­fes­sors Her­bert Boeckl and Albert Paris Güter­sloh. At the same time, he trained as a den­tist and sub­se­quent­ly prac­ticed this pro­fes­sion along­side his artis­tic work. As ear­ly as 1957, the artist’s inten­sive pre­oc­cu­pa­tion with the human fig­ure made it clear to him that he not only want­ed to depict it, but also incor­po­rate his thoughts and asso­ci­a­tions. In 1959, Josef Mikl intro­duced him to the Galerie St. Stephan and the first solo exhi­bi­tion was shown in the same year. Since 1958, he has con­tin­u­ous­ly par­tic­i­pat­ed in exhi­bi­tions and graph­ic art bien­ni­als at home and abroad (Europe, Amer­i­ca, Japan and India). From the 1960s onwards, he also cre­at­ed numer­ous stained glass win­dows for sacred build­ings, such as the cathe­dral in Wiener Neustadt, the col­le­giate church in Klosterneuburg, the Heili­genkreuz and Göt­tweig monas­ter­ies and many more. Peter Bischof passed away on August 5, 2021. The artist lived and worked in Kößl­wang in Upper Aus­tria and his works are rep­re­sent­ed in numer­ous impor­tant Aus­tri­an muse­ums and col­lec­tions of con­tem­po­rary art. 1982 — first exhi­bi­tion in the Welz Gallery.

Peter Bischof was born in Vien­na in 1934. From 1954 to 1957 he stud­ied at the Acad­e­my of Fine Arts in Vien­na under Pro­fes­sors Her­bert Boeckl and Albert Paris Güter­sloh. At the same time, he trained as a den­tist and sub­se­quent­ly prac­ticed this pro­fes­sion along­side his artis­tic work. As ear­ly as 1957, the artist’s inten­sive pre­oc­cu­pa­tion with the human fig­ure made it clear to him that he not only want­ed to depict it, but also incor­po­rate his thoughts and asso­ci­a­tions. In 1959, Josef Mikl intro­duced him to the Galerie St. Stephan and the first solo exhi­bi­tion was shown in the same year. Since 1958, he has con­tin­u­ous­ly par­tic­i­pat­ed in exhi­bi­tions and graph­ic art bien­ni­als at home and abroad (Europe, Amer­i­ca, Japan and India). From the 1960s onwards, he also cre­at­ed numer­ous stained glass win­dows for sacred build­ings, such as the cathe­dral in Wiener Neustadt, the col­le­giate church in Klosterneuburg, the Heili­genkreuz and Göt­tweig monas­ter­ies and many more. Peter Bischof passed away on August 5, 2021. The artist lived and worked in Kößl­wang in Upper Aus­tria and his works are rep­re­sent­ed in numer­ous impor­tant Aus­tri­an muse­ums and col­lec­tions of con­tem­po­rary art. 1982 — first exhi­bi­tion in the Welz Gallery.

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