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Exhi­bi­tion open­ing
TUESDAY, April 26, 2022, 3 — 6 PM

NICOLE BOTTET

Nicole Bot­tet, born in Pon­toise, France in 1942, grad­u­at­ed from the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1969. The cen­tral theme of her pic­to­r­i­al cre­ations is the still life and the human body, which increas­ing­ly emerged as a motif in the 1970s and to which she is now increas­ing­ly devot­ing her­self again.
In her works, Nicole Bot­tet cap­tures the aes­thet­ics of the every­day. Prefer­ably she works with oil paints on paper and can­vas as image car­ri­er. The char­coal pen­cil and col­lage tech­niques are incor­po­rat­ed into the oil paint­ing. The artist adds col­or accents to the sub­tle col­or­ful­ness of her paint­ings, which she enhances with gold and sil­ver leaf.
Since her first exhi­bi­tion in Paris in 1973, exhi­bi­tions have been held annu­al­ly in Euro­pean and Japan­ese gal­leries. Her works hang in the Alberti­na in Vien­na, Le Musée Olympique and Musée Jenisch Vevey in Switzer­land, the Bib­lio­thèque Nationale in Paris, and the Kasama Nichi­do Muse­um in Japan, among oth­ers. Nicole Bot­tet lives and works in Paris.
The exhi­bi­tion will fea­ture revi­sions and recent works by the artist.

KARL KORAB

Karl Korab, born in 1937 in Falken­stein (Low­er Aus­tria), stud­ied from 1957 to 1964 at the Acad­e­my of Fine Arts in Vien­na with Prof. Sergius Pauser. Since 1980 the artist lives and works in Son­ndorf in the Wald­vier­tel. In his paint­ings Korab con­cen­trates on still life and land­scape, but it is not about tra­di­tion­al land­scape paint­ing. Through his sub­tle abstrac­tion, he opens the viewer’s eye to redis­cov­er the hous­es of his child­hood and makes new inter­pre­ta­tions pos­si­ble.
Over the decades, Karl Korab was and is a trav­el­er who always returns home.
The exhi­bi­tion will fea­ture oil paint­ings, col­lages, gouach­es and draw­ings from the artist’s work.

Exhi­bi­tion dura­tion: April 27 — June 6, 2022

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Exhi­bi­tion open­ing
TUESDAY, 15 March 2022, 3 – 6 p.m

FRANZ GRABMAYR

Franz Grab­mayr, born in 1927 on the Pfaf­fen­berg in Obervel­lach (Carinthia), trained as an appren­tice. The exhi­bi­tion “Young Carinthi­an Tal­ents” in Kla­gen­furt, in which he par­tic­i­pat­ed in 1952, awak­ened in him the desire for pro­fes­sion­al train­ing. In 1954 he began study­ing at the Acad­e­my of Fine Arts in Vien­na with Prof. R. C. Ander­sen and Her­bert Boeckl. In 1962 he gave up his teach­ing pro­fes­sion and from then on worked as a free­lance artist.
Start­ing in 1964, he cre­at­ed large-for­mat land­scape paint­ings and, from the mid-1960s, the leg­endary sand pit paint­ings, and lat­er the series of “Tanzblät­ter” (“Dance Sheets”).
In the 1980s, the Sand Pit artist worked on night and fire paint­ings. Impres­sive scenes with dancers around the camp­fire, which Grab­mayr staged on his Low­er Aus­tri­an farm, are cap­tured on can­vas­es.
In sum­mer he works in the Uttis­senbach in the Wald­vier­tel and in win­ter in his stu­dio in Vien­na. In 2002, on the occa­sion of his 75th birth­day, his life’s work up to that time was pre­sent­ed at the Öster­re­ichis­che Galerie im Oberen Belvedere in Vien­na. The artist passed away in Vien­na on May 8, 2015.
In the mass­es of col­or wild­ly applied to the pic­ture sup­ports, the ele­ments of water, fire, sky and earth appear again and again. Franz Grab­mayr found inspi­ra­tion for his expres­sive, pow­er­ful works in nature.
The exhi­bi­tion will fea­ture oil paint­ings on can­vas and works on paper and moli­no from var­i­ous cre­ative peri­ods of the artist, includ­ing land­scape paint­ings, sand pit paint­ings and dance sheets.

CLASSIC MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART

On the first floor of the gallery, works of art of clas­sic mod­ern and con­tem­po­rary art, includ­ing works by Marc Cha­gall, Joan Miró, Gus­tav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokosch­ka, Max Weil­er, Wil­helm Thöny, Gunter Damisch, Josef Mikl and Markus Prachen­sky are shown.

Exhi­bi­tion dura­tion: March 16 – April 23, 2022

WOLFGANG S T I F T E R
Works on paper and canvas

Exhi­bi­tion opening
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2022, 3 — 6 P.M.

Exhi­bi­tion dura­tion: Feb­ru­ary 9 — March 12, 2022

Wolf­gang Stifter, born in Otten­sheim (Upper Aus­tria) in 1946, stud­ied at the Acad­e­my of Fine Arts in Vien­na from 1964 to 1970 under Prof. Max­i­m­il­ian Melch­er, who will cel­e­brate his 100th birth­day in 2022. I’d be cel­e­brat­ing my birthday.
“In this exhi­bi­tion Wolf­gang Stifter inter­twines two series of works that have been suc­ces­sive­ly devel­oped for quite some time: “Die Dinge des Lebens (Le cose del­la vita)” start­ed in Italy in 2019 and “Leaves from the Amber Room” already in 2017, where­by the use of hard oils on Japan­ese paper, which make the pic­ture sup­port par­tial­ly translu­cent, rep­re­sents the per­son­al nov­el­ty in these works.
In the for­mer series, “The Things of Life”, mixed media on paper and can­vas, the indi­vid­ual ele­ments that make up the com­po­si­tion of the pic­ture remain more vis­i­ble than before, more con­toured and some­times only loose­ly con­nect­ed to one anoth­er. In the mean­time, the series “Leaves from the Amber Room” is head­ing for a new cli­max: the leaves are get­ting larg­er and denser and — because of their implied ori­gin — are under­laid with Cyril­lic print in their trans­par­ent parts.
All the works bear titles that, in addi­tion to the many zoomor­phic ele­ments, intro­duce a fur­ther asso­cia­tive lev­el that makes the view­er linger longer in front of the pic­ture.” (Wolf­gang Stifter)
Wolf­gang Stifter lives and works in Ottensheim.

On the 1st floor

MARTIN S T A U F N E R
New works

Exhi­bi­tion opening
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2022, 3 — 6 P.M.

Exhi­bi­tion dura­tion: Feb­ru­ary 9 — March 12, 2022

Mar­tin Staufn­er, born in Immenstadt/Allgäu (Ger­many) in 1964, com­plet­ed an appren­tice­ship at the Fach­schule für Gebrauchs­graphik from 1985 to 1989 and stud­ied at the Hochschule für kün­st­lerische und indus­trielle Gestal­tung in Linz from 1990 to 1995. The exhi­bi­tion will fea­ture new works by the artist.

“His moti­va­tion for the paint­ings is borne less by a trans­fig­ured love of plants than by a respect­ful detach­ment from the motif and a fas­ci­na­tion that is root­ed in the wealth of forms of plants. As imag­i­na­tive and incred­i­ble as nature shows itself to us, the world of paint­ing and draw­ing is just as won­der­ful and fas­ci­nat­ing. In each pic­ture lies the desire to cap­ture all this for itself and the view­er, but it always suc­ceeds only in cap­tur­ing a moment.” (Mar­tin Staufner)
Mar­tin Staufn­er has lived and worked in Linz since 1968.