Gunter Damisch, Austrian Junge Wilde Abstract Etching Hand Signed, New Expressionist, c.1980s

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Gunter Damisch (1958, Steyr- 2016 in Vienna) was an Austrian painter and sculptor . He is one of "den Neuen … Read more Gunter Damisch (1958, Steyr- 2016 in Vienna) was an Austrian painter and sculptor . He is one of "den Neuen Wilde" New Savages. (Junge Wilde) Gunter Damisch attended the Musikgymnasium Linz and then studied medicine and German and history for a few semesters. By age 16, he had already made 150 woodcuts and attended the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg with Claus Pack, he studied from 1978 to 1983 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Maximilian Melcher and Arnulf Rainer . In 1992 he took on a visiting professorship at the Vienna Academy (master class for graphics ) in Vienna, and since 1998 he has been a full professor there. From 1997 until his untimely death in 2016, he was head of the graphic arts department at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. the 1980s Damisch was a member of the Viennese punk band Molto Brutto, where he played bass and organ. Gunter Damisch lived and worked in Vienna and Freidegg . He was one of the most important international representatives of contemporary Austrian art because of his unmistakable, convincing and consistently formulated repertoire of colors and shapes (reminiscent of Friedensreich Hundertwasser.) He worked in stone lithos, woodcuts, lithograph, artists’ books like a free jazz virtuoso, making huge, one-of-a-kind pieces with collage, drawing, painting, woodcut and monotype on the same sheet. In 1978, the Junge Wilde painting style arose in the German-speaking world in opposition to established avant garde, minimal art and conceptual art. It was linked to the similar Transavanguardia movement in Italy, USA (neo-expressionism) and France (Figuration Libre). The Junge Wilde painted their expressive paintings in bright, intense colors and with quick, broad brushstrokes very much influenced by Professor at the Academy of Art in Berlin, Karl Horst Hödicke They were also known as the Neue Wilde. Artists included; Austria: Siegfried Anzinger, Erwin Bohatsch, Herbert Brandl, Gunter Damisch, Hubert Scheibl, Hubert Schmalix, G.L. Gabriel-Thieler Germany: Berlin: Luciano Castelli, Rainer Fetting, Andreas Walther, Helmut Middendorf, Salomé, Bernd Zimmer, Elvira Bach, Peter Robert Keil Cologne: Hans Peter Adamski, Peter Bömmels, Jiri Georg Dokoupil, Volker Tannert, Stefan Szczesny, A. R. Penck. Düsseldorf: Jörg Immendorff, Albert Oehlen, Markus Oehlen, Martin Kippenberger, Markus Lüpertz, Werner Buettner, Horst Gläsker, Peter Angermann Select Awards 1983 Römerquelle art competition 1985 Otto Mauer Prize , Max Weiler Prize 1991 Karl Rössing Prize 1995 City of Vienna Prize for Fine Arts 1996 Anton Faistauer Prize for Painting from the State of Salzburg Prize at the 2nd International Graphic Triennial, Prague 1998 Culture Prize of the Province of Upper Austria for the fine arts 2011 Lower Austrian Culture Prize Appreciation Prize for Fine Arts Select Public collections Big World Hole Wall (1992), Linz, Museumstrasse 14 Germany Art gallery in Emden , Emden, Austria Essl Collection - Kunsthaus, Klosterneuburg State gallery at the Upper Austrian State Museum , Linz Lower Austrian State Museum , St. Pölten Ploner Collection , Vienna Angerlehner Museum , Thalheim near Wels See less