Otto EDER was born in 1924 in See­bo­den in Carinthia. In 1948 he first stud­ied with Wal­ter Rit­ter at the Kun­st­gewerbeschule in Graz, but in the same year switched to Pro­fes­sor Fritz Wotru­ba at the Acad­e­my of Fine Arts in Vien­na, where he stud­ied until 1951. In 1964 he became a mem­ber of the Vien­na Seces­sion and in 1967 co-founder of the asso­ci­a­tion “Encounter in Carinthia”. In 1962 he received the Aus­tri­an State Prize for Sculp­ture. Otto Eder, who was also a painter and graph­ic artist, works in sculp­ture pri­mar­i­ly with stone, con­crete, bronze and wood. His ear­ly works already show what is impor­tant to him: the reduc­tion of the human body to hap­tic plas­tic­i­ty and an archa­ic form while main­tain­ing har­mo­nious pro­por­tions. Its self-con­tained, volu­mi­nous and com­pact struc­tures are not sub­ject to any sys­tem. He reduced his fig­ures to strict basic geo­met­ric shapes: to cones, cylin­ders, cir­cles, 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 one anoth­er. Lat­er he reduced the forms to phys­i­cal­ly round, most­ly female fig­ures. The inte­gra­tion of the stone sculp­ture into the urban space was impor­tant for the artist from the start. In 1982 Otto Eder died in See­bo­den on the Ossiachersee.

Otto EDER was born in 1924 in See­bo­den in Carinthia. In 1948 he first stud­ied with Wal­ter Rit­ter at the Kun­st­gewerbeschule in Graz, but in the same year switched to Pro­fes­sor Fritz Wotru­ba at the Acad­e­my of Fine Arts in Vien­na, where he stud­ied until 1951. In 1964 he became a mem­ber of the Vien­na Seces­sion and in 1967 co-founder of the asso­ci­a­tion “Encounter in Carinthia”. In 1962 he received the Aus­tri­an State Prize for Sculp­ture. Otto Eder, who was also a painter and graph­ic artist, works in sculp­ture pri­mar­i­ly with stone, con­crete, bronze and wood. His ear­ly works already show what is impor­tant to him: the reduc­tion of the human body to hap­tic plas­tic­i­ty and an archa­ic form while main­tain­ing har­mo­nious pro­por­tions. Its self-con­tained, volu­mi­nous and com­pact struc­tures are not sub­ject to any sys­tem. He reduced his fig­ures to strict basic geo­met­ric shapes: to cones, cylin­ders, cir­cles, 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 one anoth­er. Lat­er he reduced the forms to phys­i­cal­ly round, most­ly female fig­ures. The inte­gra­tion of the stone sculp­ture into the urban space was impor­tant for the artist from the start. In 1982 Otto Eder died in See­bo­den on the Ossiachersee.


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