Wal­ter Schmögn­er was born in Vien­na in 1943 and spent his child­hood in Toledo/Spain. After his aca­d­e­m­ic train­ing as a graph­ic artist in Vien­na, he under­took numer­ous study trips and stays abroad in Ger­many, France, Switzer­land, Eng­land, Italy, Spain and North Africa. The year 1963 was the start of a live­ly exhi­bi­tion activ­i­ty since then and since 1977 the artist has also worked as a stage design­er. A guest pro­fes­sor­ship at the Ham­burg Uni­ver­si­ty of Applied Sci­ences in 1988 was fol­lowed by fur­ther teach­ing activ­i­ties at the Inter­na­tion­al Sum­mer Acad­e­my in Salzburg in 1998 and 1999, as well as at the Euro­pean Jour­nal­ism Acad­e­my in Vien­na in 2003. From 2007 to 2019, a week­ly com­ic (COMix by Wal­ter Schmögn­er) appeared in the Stan­dard. The world in Schmögner’s pic­tures often seems to be upside down, allow­ing us to look deep into human souls and abysses. The painter, drafts­man, book artist, sculp­tor and stage design­er lives and works in Vien­na and south­ern Bur­gen­land. 1993 – first exhi­bi­tion in the gallery Welz.

Wal­ter Schmögn­er was born in Vien­na in 1943 and spent his child­hood in Toledo/Spain. After his aca­d­e­m­ic train­ing as a graph­ic artist in Vien­na, he under­took numer­ous study trips and stays abroad in Ger­many, France, Switzer­land, Eng­land, Italy, Spain and North Africa. The year 1963 was the start of a live­ly exhi­bi­tion activ­i­ty since then and since 1977 the artist has also worked as a stage design­er. A guest pro­fes­sor­ship at the Ham­burg Uni­ver­si­ty of Applied Sci­ences in 1988 was fol­lowed by fur­ther teach­ing activ­i­ties at the Inter­na­tion­al Sum­mer Acad­e­my in Salzburg in 1998 and 1999, as well as at the Euro­pean Jour­nal­ism Acad­e­my in Vien­na in 2003. From 2007 to 2019, a week­ly com­ic (COMix by Wal­ter Schmögn­er) appeared in the Stan­dard. The world in Schmögner’s pic­tures often seems to be upside down, allow­ing us to look deep into human souls and abysses. The painter, drafts­man, book artist, sculp­tor and stage design­er lives and works in Vien­na and south­ern Bur­gen­land. 1993 – first exhi­bi­tion in the gallery Welz.


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