Heinz Leinfellner

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Heinz LEINFELLNER was born in Stein­brück (Low­er Styr­ia) in 1911. The fam­i­ly moved to Graz in 1916. He attend­ed the School of Applied Arts in Graz from 1927 to 1930 and stud­ied at the Vien­na Acad­e­my under Anton Hanak and Josef Müll­ner from 1932 to 1940. From 1946 to 1948 Lein­fell­ner worked as a free­lancer for Fritz Wotru­ba and from 1947 to 1951 as his assis­tant at the Acad­e­my in Vien­na. Nature, the archa­ic and the func­tion­al were things that repeat­ed­ly defined Lein­fell­ner’s art. Artis­ti­cal­ly, he fol­lowed Hanak, Wotru­ba and Hen­ry Moore and car­ried out process­es of abstrac­tion, but nev­er aban­doned the fig­u­ra­tive form. The human fig­ure was one of his fun­da­men­tal con­vic­tions. Exhi­bi­tions and par­tic­i­pa­tion in exhi­bi­tions at home and abroad, includ­ing 1949, first Aus­tri­an exhi­bi­tion abroad in Turin and in the same year at the Paris Salon de mai. 1952, 1954 and 1956 par­tic­i­pa­tion in the Venice Bien­nale. Lein­fell­ner is one of the found­ing mem­bers of the Art Club. From 1959 pro­fes­sor at the Acad­e­my of Fine Arts in Vien­na. His works can be found in pub­lic spaces and in pub­lic col­lec­tions. Heinz Lein­fell­ner died in Vien­na in 1974.

Heinz LEINFELLNER was born in Stein­brück (Low­er Styr­ia) in 1911. The fam­i­ly moved to Graz in 1916. He attend­ed the School of Applied Arts in Graz from 1927 to 1930 and stud­ied at the Vien­na Acad­e­my under Anton Hanak and Josef Müll­ner from 1932 to 1940. From 1946 to 1948 Lein­fell­ner worked as a free­lancer for Fritz Wotru­ba and from 1947 to 1951 as his assis­tant at the Acad­e­my in Vien­na. Nature, the archa­ic and the func­tion­al were things that repeat­ed­ly defined Lein­fell­ner’s art. Artis­ti­cal­ly, he fol­lowed Hanak, Wotru­ba and Hen­ry Moore and car­ried out process­es of abstrac­tion, but nev­er aban­doned the fig­u­ra­tive form. The human fig­ure was one of his fun­da­men­tal con­vic­tions. Exhi­bi­tions and par­tic­i­pa­tion in exhi­bi­tions at home and abroad, includ­ing 1949, first Aus­tri­an exhi­bi­tion abroad in Turin and in the same year at the Paris Salon de mai. 1952, 1954 and 1956 par­tic­i­pa­tion in the Venice Bien­nale. Lein­fell­ner is one of the found­ing mem­bers of the Art Club. From 1959 pro­fes­sor at the Acad­e­my of Fine Arts in Vien­na. His works can be found in pub­lic spaces and in pub­lic col­lec­tions. Heinz Lein­fell­ner died in Vien­na in 1974.

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