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HELMUT S W O B O D A

New works

Exhi­bi­tion open­ing: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2021, 3 — 7 p.m.

Exhi­bi­tion dura­tion: 13 Octo­ber — 20 Novem­ber 2021

The artist, who was born in Amstet­ten in 1958, is nature is a source of inspi­ra­tion. His paint­ing shows the rough­ness of the moun­tain land­scapes that inspire the artist. In his recur­ring motifs he tries to repro­duce the move­ments of the water, to take up the rhythm of the water and to trans­fer it to the can­vas. Hel­mut Swo­bo­da works with brush­es, brooms, sponges, rags and mate­ri­als he finds in nature. His cre­ative process is pri­mar­i­ly about see­ing, and imple­ment­ing what he sees. In his land­scape ideas Swo­bo­da plays with the bor­der between the abstract and the rep­re­sen­ta­tion­al. In the process, his land­scape motifs increas­ing­ly approach the abstract and mono­chrome. Swoboda’s art lives from the dialec­tic between the ref­er­ence to nature and the auton­o­my of the some­times quite mono­chrome con­densed image. (Peter Weier­mair)

The exhi­bi­tion will fea­ture recent works on paper and can­vas by the artist.

Par­al­lel to the exhi­bi­tion:
HELMUT SWOBODA — WIE EIN SPAZIERGANG | Spe­cial Exhi­bi­tion |
Muse­um Anger­lehn­er | Sep­tem­ber 12, 2021 to Jan­u­ary 23, 2022

On the 1st floor

KARL M O S T B Ö C K (1921 — 2013)

Paper works

Exhi­bi­tion open­ing: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2021, 3 — 7 p.m.

Exhi­bi­tion dura­tion: 13 Octo­ber — 20 Novem­ber 2021

Karl Most­böck, born in Grein (Upper Aus­tria) in 1921, was an auto­di­dact from 1946 onwards and con­tin­u­ous­ly occu­pied him­self with Euro­pean art his­to­ry. Land­scapes, nudes and still lifes are the themes of his ear­ly paint­ings. From 1964 onwards, the influ­ence of Zen Bud­dhism assert­ed itself in his work. From 1985 onwards, infor­mal ele­ments increas­ing­ly flowed into his work. The detach­ment from the rep­re­sen­ta­tion­al enabled the artist to inter­twine Zen paint­ing with the informal.

Karl Most­böck is con­sid­ered an Aus­tri­an rep­re­sen­ta­tive of infor­mal and scrip­tur­al paint­ing. On the occa­sion of his 100th birth­day On the occa­sion of the artist’s 100th birth­day, works on paper from his oeu­vre will be shown in the exhibition.

KARL MOSTBÖCK|1921 — 2021 |On the 100th anniver­sary of his death. Birth­day
http://www.mostboeck-archiv.at/gedenkjahr-2021/

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DRAGO P R E L O G (1939 — 2020)

Pic­tures from 1987 to 2019

Exhi­bi­tion Open­ing: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2021, 3 — 7 PM.

Exhi­bi­tion dura­tion: 15 Sep­tem­ber — 9 Octo­ber 2021

Dra­go Julius PRELOG, born in Cel­je Yugoslavia in 1939, stud­ied at the Acad­e­my of Fine Arts in Vien­na from 1958 to 1962. In 1960 Prel­og cre­at­ed his first char­ac­ter­is­tic scrip­tur­al works based on the late for­mu­la. These works marked the begin­ning of a scrip­tur­al phase of his work that last­ed over a decade. In the ear­ly 1970s, Prelog’s rep­re­sen­ta­tion­al “bomb and explo­sion” paint­ings devel­oped. This was fol­lowed by topo­graph­i­cal pic­tures moti­vat­ed by maps, as well as moun­tain pic­tures and the “St. Stephen’s Tow­ers”. Start­ing from pro­file rep­re­sen­ta­tions, the artist arrived at his “cir­cu­lat­ing pic­tures”, in which he approached the pic­ture sup­port lying on a table from all four sides, which were of equal val­ue to him, cir­cled the paint­ing ground and set lines. In 1986 Prel­og devel­oped “prel­og­ra­phy”, a repro­duc­tion tech­nique he devel­oped based on the use of sten­cils. With the help of these, the fourth large work sec­tion, the skin and bark pic­tures, came into being.
The exhi­bi­tion will fea­ture acrylic paint­ings from 1987 to 2019 from the work phas­es “Umlauf­bilder”, “Alpha­bet­bilder”, “Haut- und Schup­pen­bilder” and “Lochbilder”.

On the 1st floor 

INTERNATIONAL PRINT GRAPHICS

Exhi­bi­tion Open­ing: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2021, 3 — 7 PM.

Exhi­bi­tion dura­tion: 15 Sep­tem­ber — 9 Octo­ber 2021

On the 1st floor of the gallery, Inter­na­tion­al Prints, by Georges Braque, Sam Fran­cis, Fer­nand Léger, Sean Scul­ly, as well as Got­thard Graub­n­er, Frieden­sre­ich Hun­dert­wass­er, Heinz Mack, Serge Poli­akoff, Pierre Soulages, Gün­ther Ueck­er, u. v. m. shown.

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MASTER SCULPTORS AROUND WOTRUBA

ALBRECHT — AVRAMIDIS — HRDLICKA — PILLHOFER — REITER — URTEIL

Exhi­bi­tion opening:
SATURDAY, JULY 17, 2021, 11 A.M.

Exhi­bi­tion dura­tion: 17 July — 4 Sep­tem­ber 2021

Fritz Wotru­ba is one of the most influ­en­tial Aus­tri­an sculp­tors of the 20thcen­tu­ry. In our fes­ti­val exhi­bi­tion we focus on the rep­re­sen­ta­tives and the devel­op­ment from the artists influ­enced by Wotru­ba to their unmis­tak­able style. While the ear­ly sculp­tures show the typ­i­cal squat cubist, angu­lar forms, the indi­vid­ual devel­op­ment of the sculp­tors can be seen in the lat­er works.

Among the many great names that Wotruba’s school pro­duced, sculp­tures and sculp­tures by Her­bert Albrecht, Joan­nis Avramidis, Alfred Hrdlic­ka, Josef Pill­hofer, Erwin Reit­er and Andreas Urteil will be shown along­side works by Fritz Wotru­ba. The sculp­tur­al work of each is com­ple­ment­ed by draw­ings and sketches.

On the 1st floor

CONTEMPORARY ART AND CLASSIC MODERN

Exhi­bi­tion opening:
SATURDAY, JULY 17, 2021, 11 A.M.

Exhi­bi­tion dura­tion: 17 July — 4 Sep­tem­ber 2021

On the 1st floor of the gallery are works of art of the clas­si­cal mod­ern and con­tem­po­rary art, among oth­ers by Marc Cha­gall, Lyonel Feininger, Wolf­gang Hol­legha, Ernst Lud­wig Kirch­n­er, Gus­tav Klimt, Oskar Kokosch­ka, Joan Miró, Markus Prachen­sky, Egon Schiele, Oth­mar Zechyr u. v. m. shown.

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HANNES M L E N E K

New works

Exhi­bi­tion open­ing:
TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 2021, 3 — 7 P.M.

Exhi­bi­tion dura­tion: 2 June — 10 July 2021

Hannes Mlenek is pri­mar­i­ly a drafts­man. The cen­tral theme of his cre­ations is the human body. The expres­sive, pow­er­ful expres­sion of his work, most­ly in over­sized pic­ture for­mats, draws shad­owy forms of the human body.
Cur­rent works, which are unusu­al­ly small-for­mat for the artist, are shown in the exhi­bi­tion. Hannes Mlenek was born in Wiener Neustadt in 1949 and attend­ed the Uni­ver­si­ty of Applied Arts in Vien­na as a guest stu­dent. The drafts­man and painter has been work­ing as a free­lance artist since 1976. Mlenek has con­sis­tent­ly devel­oped a work that can be locat­ed both in the area of the ges­tur­al-expres­sive as well as in the area of the fig­u­ra­tive.
Mlenek’s works, work cycles and instal­la­tions have recent­ly been shown in exhi­bi­tions at the Leopold Muse­um in Vien­na, the Grenz Kun­st Halle in Jen­ners­dorf and the Anger­lehn­er Muse­um in Thal­heim near Wels.
Mlenek lives and works in Vien­na. Since 2016 the artist has a fed­er­al sculptor’s stu­dio in Vienna’s Prater.

On the 1st floor 

RUDOLF H R A D I L (1925 — 2007)

Still life

Exhi­bi­tion open­ing:
TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 2021, 3 — 7 P.M.

Exhi­bi­tion dura­tion: 2 June — 10 July 2021

Still lifes are among Rudolf Hradil’s pre­ferred motifs. At Hradil there is sel­dom still life clear­ly exclud­ed from the envi­ron­ment. The sur­round­ings of the land­scape or the inte­ri­or flow into them from all sides. A pre­cise def­i­n­i­tion of the still life as a spe­cial genre of his work is not pos­si­ble. Rather, the artist puts togeth­er indi­vid­ual build­ing blocks to cre­ate some­thing still life-like.
Rudolf Hradil, born in Salzburg in 1925, stud­ied at the Acad­e­my of Fine Arts in Vien­na. Schol­ar­ships and work stays took him to France, Eng­land, the USA, Switzer­land and Italy, among oth­er places. His graph­ic and painter­ly oeu­vre is rep­re­sent­ed in numer­ous state and pub­lic col­lec­tions in Aus­tria and abroad, includ­ing: Alberti­na Graph­ic Col­lec­tion, Vien­na; Salzburg Muse­um; Muse­um der Mod­erne, Salzburg; Palaz­zo Strozzi, Flo­rence; Museo di Roma; Würth Col­lec­tion, Künzel­sau; Essl Col­lec­tion, Klosterneuburg. Stra­bag Art­col­lec­tion, Vien­na; Liau­nig Col­lec­tion, Neuhaus.
Rudolf Hradil, painter, print­mak­er, drafts­man and water­col­orist, lived and worked in Salzburg and Vien­na.
At the end of June 2021, the Müry Salz­mann pub­lish­ing house will release the pub­li­ca­tion
Rudolf Hradil. Still life
with a text by Niko­laus Schaffer

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