Christian Attersee
Christian Ludwig Attersee (born Christian Ludwig on 28 August 1940 in Bratislava) is an Austrian artist.[1]
Biography
After he had spent his youth in Upper Austria (also at the Attersee, that's where his artist's name comes from), Attersee began his studies in 1957 at the then-named Vienna Akademie für angewandte Kunst (Academy of Applied Arts, in 1998 renamed to "University of Applied Arts") with E. Bäumer, keeping these up until 1963. From 1966 on, he got in touch with the short-lived Viennese Actionism movement. Being very intrigued by object and action art from the start, Attersee attempted to combine music, speech, photo and video art with the basic form to create a new form of total artwork (also known by the German term Gesamtkunstwerk) like object inventions such as the "Speisekugel" ("food sphere"), the "Speiseblau" ("food blue"), the "Prothesenalphabet" ("prosthetical alphabet"), the "Speicheltönung" ("saliva tinge" or "saliva hue"), the female vagina as an object of arts as well as the self-coined "Attersteck". In later years, the quintessence of his work shall be characterized by subjects like sexuality and natural studies.
His work is denoted by a figural-to-symbolic style transition, bright colors and an energetic ductus. Moreover, there are ambiguous, artsy connotations and imaginations of a likewise free-spirit and somewhat very Austrian mentality with a bias towards sexual malapropism. The context too gets incorporated into the artist's work many times, along with additional textual elements embedded into it.
C. L. Attersee's exhibitions are likely to be composed of artistical shows, accompanied by music and literature; to some extent even by fellow artists attending and participating in the show.
In 1984, he was representing his home country at the Venice Biennial. Since 1990, Attersee has been holding a chair at the Vienna University of Applied Arts and is one of the most renowned contemporary Austrian artists worldwide.
Honours and awards
- City of Vienna Prize for Visual Arts (1989)
- Grand Austrian State Prize for Fine Arts (May 1998)
- Lovis Corinth Prize of Künstlergilde Esslingen, Baden-Wurttemberg (Summer 2004)
- Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class (September 2005)[2]
- Silver Commander's Cross of Honour for Services to the province of Lower Austria (2007)
See also
References
- ↑ Hegyi, Lóránd; Spain), Fundación "La Caixa" (Madrid,; Cultural, Fundació "La Caixa". Centre (1994*). La visión austríaca: tres generaciones de artistas. Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien. pp. 32â. Retrieved 24 September 2011. Check date values in:
|date=(help) - ↑ "Reply to a parliamentary question" (PDF) (in German). p. 1661. Retrieved 22 October 2012.
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