Otto EDER was born in 1924 in See­bo­den in Carinthia. In 1948, he ini­tial­ly stud­ied under Wal­ter Rit­ter at the School of Arts and Crafts in Graz, but moved to Pro­fes­sor Fritz Wotru­ba at the Acad­e­my of Fine Arts in Vien­na in the same year and stud­ied there until 1951. In 1964, he became a mem­ber of the Vien­na Seces­sion and co-found­ed the “Begeg­nung in Kärn­ten” asso­ci­a­tion in 1967. In 1962, he was award­ed the Aus­tri­an State Prize for Sculp­ture. Otto Eder, who was also a painter and graph­ic artist, worked pri­mar­i­ly with stone, con­crete, bronze and wood in his sculp­tures. Even his ear­ly works showed what was impor­tant to him: the reduc­tion of the human body to hap­tic plas­tic­i­ty and an archa­ic form while main­tain­ing har­mo­nious pro­por­tions. His rest­ing, volu­mi­nous and com­pact forms were not sub­ject to any sys­tem. He reduced his fig­ures to strict basic geo­met­ric forms: cones, cylin­ders, cir­cles and tri­an­gles. At the begin­ning of the 1950s, Otto Eder devel­oped a new, then sen­sa­tion­al tech­nique of “dow­el sculp­tures” made of stones placed on top of each oth­er. He lat­er reduced the forms to phys­i­cal, round, most­ly female fig­ures. The inte­gra­tion of the stone sculp­ture into the urban space was impor­tant for the artist from the start. Otto Eder died in See­bo­den on Lake Ossi­ach in 1982.

Otto EDER was born in 1924 in See­bo­den in Carinthia. In 1948, he ini­tial­ly stud­ied under Wal­ter Rit­ter at the School of Arts and Crafts in Graz, but moved to Pro­fes­sor Fritz Wotru­ba at the Acad­e­my of Fine Arts in Vien­na in the same year and stud­ied there until 1951. In 1964, he became a mem­ber of the Vien­na Seces­sion and co-found­ed the “Begeg­nung in Kärn­ten” asso­ci­a­tion in 1967. In 1962, he was award­ed the Aus­tri­an State Prize for Sculp­ture. Otto Eder, who was also a painter and graph­ic artist, worked pri­mar­i­ly with stone, con­crete, bronze and wood in his sculp­tures. Even his ear­ly works showed what was impor­tant to him: the reduc­tion of the human body to hap­tic plas­tic­i­ty and an archa­ic form while main­tain­ing har­mo­nious pro­por­tions. His rest­ing, volu­mi­nous and com­pact forms were not sub­ject to any sys­tem. He reduced his fig­ures to strict basic geo­met­ric forms: cones, cylin­ders, cir­cles and tri­an­gles. At the begin­ning of the 1950s, Otto Eder devel­oped a new, then sen­sa­tion­al tech­nique of “dow­el sculp­tures” made of stones placed on top of each oth­er. He lat­er reduced the forms to phys­i­cal, round, most­ly female fig­ures. The inte­gra­tion of the stone sculp­ture into the urban space was impor­tant for the artist from the start. Otto Eder died in See­bo­den on Lake Ossi­ach in 1982.


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