Gottfried Mairwöger

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 exhi­bi­tions and par­tic­i­pa­tions in exhi­bi­tions took place reg­u­lar­ly at home and abroad.
Got­tfried Mair­wöger received the Upper Aus­tri­an Provin­cial Pro­mo­tion Prize for Paint­ing in 1972 and the Mon­sign­or Otto Mauer Prize for Paint­ing in 1982.
In 2003 Got­tfried Mair­wöger dies in Vienna.