Friedrich Danielis

Friedrich DANIELIS, born on Novem­ber 20, 1944 in Bad Reichen­hall, moved to Salzburg in 1955. In 1964 he moved into a stu­dio in Vien­na. 1966 first large-for­mat egg tem­pera works and 1968 first pas­tel draw­ings. In 1973, the self-taught artist began an exten­sive water­col­or cycle and a large-for­mat pas­tel polyp­tych. From 1975 Danielis was engaged in gouache paint­ing. In 2009, water­col­or mono­types are cre­at­ed. A large ceil­ing fres­co “Tri­on­fo del­la Ragione” (1981), for the Göt­tweig Abbey in Low­er Aus­tria, shows his dif­fer­ent for­mat pre­oc­cu­pa­tions. Most­ly Danielis devel­oped his pic­to­r­i­al ideas as cycles and series. He exe­cut­ed the major­i­ty of his works in pas­tel, gouache or egg tem­pera. Since 1970 Danielis was a cor­re­spond­ing mem­ber of the Vien­na Seces­sion and a mem­ber of the PEN Club. Study vis­its took him to Berlin, Lon­don, Mex­i­co, New York and Venice, among oth­er places. The artis­tic work of Friedrich Danielis includes a lit­er­ary oeu­vre with texts, essays and libret­ti and a pic­to­r­i­al oeu­vre with egg tem­pera paint­ings, gouach­es, pas­tels, draw­ings and graph­ics. Paint­ing books, with his own texts and texts of oth­ers, are also an essen­tial part of his work. Orig­i­nal pho­tographs of Friedrich Danieli’s “Bewegte Stille / Pass­ing Through”, pho­tographs of Leopold­skron Park from 1961 and 1962, were pre­sent­ed as the first exhi­bi­tion at the fes­tive open­ing of the New Gallery at Leopold­skron Palace in Salzburg in 2021. Inter­rupt­ed by stays in Berlin and Lon­don, the artist has lived alter­nate­ly in New York, Venice and Vien­na since 1979. Friedrich Danieli’s paint­ings are sketch­es of a world where the imag­i­na­tion is mas­ter of the house, a house that belongs to man alone. Friedrich Danielis dies in Vien­na on July 16, 2021.
1974 — first exhi­bi­tion in the Welz gallery.