Gottfried MAIRWÖGER was born on February 4, 1951 in Tragwein in Upper Austria. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with Josef Mikl and Wolfgang Hollegha. The generous, spacious paintings of the artist, who was also successful in the USA, possess lightness and rhythm. Large sections of Gottfried Mairwöger’s oeuvre mark a connecting intermediate position within Color Field Painting, which emerged in the USA at the beginning of the 1960s, and the Abstract Expressionism that preceded it. In 1976 Mairwöger met the art critic Clement Greenberg, who invited him to the USA. In the USA, Mairwöger established numerous contacts with American painters. Study and work visits have repeatedly taken Mairwöger to Italy, Spain, the USA, Mauritius and Sri Lanka. In 1974 Mairwöger took part in the exhibition “Oberösterreichische Avantgarde” at the New Gallery of the City of Linz (Lentos). From 1975, he regularly exhibited and participated in exhibitions in Austria and abroad.
Gottfried Mairwöger received the Upper Austrian State Prize for Painting in 1972 and the Monsignor Otto Mauer Prize for Painting in 1982.
Gottfried Mairwöger died in Vienna in 2003. 2022 — Welz Gallery.
Gottfried MAIRWÖGER was born on February 4, 1951 in Tragwein in Upper Austria. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with Josef Mikl and Wolfgang Hollegha. The generous, spacious paintings of the artist, who was also successful in the USA, possess lightness and rhythm. Large sections of Gottfried Mairwöger’s oeuvre mark a connecting intermediate position within Color Field Painting, which emerged in the USA at the beginning of the 1960s, and the Abstract Expressionism that preceded it. In 1976 Mairwöger met the art critic Clement Greenberg, who invited him to the USA. In the USA, Mairwöger established numerous contacts with American painters. Study and work visits have repeatedly taken Mairwöger to Italy, Spain, the USA, Mauritius and Sri Lanka. In 1974 Mairwöger took part in the exhibition “Oberösterreichische Avantgarde” at the New Gallery of the City of Linz (Lentos). From 1975, he regularly exhibited and participated in exhibitions in Austria and abroad.
Gottfried Mairwöger received the Upper Austrian State Prize for Painting in 1972 and the Monsignor Otto Mauer Prize for Painting in 1982.
Gottfried Mairwöger died in Vienna in 2003. 2022 — Welz Gallery.
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