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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