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Richard Hirschbaeck (German: Richard Hirschbäck; born 2 July 1937, Schwarzach St. Veit, died 13 July 2007 in Thumersbach, Zell am See) was an Austrian painter. He was co-founder of the Austrian artist group, Group 77.

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Richard Hirschbaeck in his studio in Thumersbach, Austria
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Richard Hirschbaeck, Untitled, 2002, Oil on canvas, 43 x 43 cm

Life and Work

Richard Hirschbaeck attended the Benedictine boarding school Edmundsburg in Salzburg. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, under Prof. Albert Paris Gütersloh from 1956 - 1961.[1] After his studies, in 1962 Hirschbaeck moved to Thumersbach, Zell am See where he lived until his death in 2007. In 1969, he joined the Austrian artist group Grazer Sezession[2] and in 1971, he became a member of the Artist's Association of Salzburg [3]. In 1977, Hirschbäck stepped out of the Grazer Sezession along with a group of artists and formed the Group 77 (Gruppe 77)[4] in Graz.

The vicinity to the Zeller See and surrounding mountains enabled Hirschbäck to study nature in relation to the urban environment, a main theme of interest present throughout his career. Hirschbaeck worked mainly with painting, oil on canvas and sometimes employed mixed media, assemblage and untypical, readymade objects, such as doors or windows as the basis for his paintings. He maintained a strict work ethic and painted daily. He was prolific in drawing and left behind thousands of works on paper in ink, pencil, aquarelle, tempera, oil and mixed media.[5] In the first years of his career, he was interested in geometric compositions and mathematically constituting the artistic work. In the seventies, he expanded the theme of landscape into the area of dreams, fantasy and fiction. Towards the eighties and nineties, Hirschbäck worked within the field of Abstract art, oscillating between expressionistic work and geometric compositions. The latter pieces dominated throughout the 2000’s. Hirschbaeck additionally combined his writings and poetry with his paintings, referring to literature and language, such as the Hebraic alphabet.[6]

In 1972, Hirschbaeck received the Art Prize Köflach followed by a retrospective in Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz Wolfgang-Gurlitt-Museum, today's Lentos Museum in Linz. [7]

His work is found in museum collections such as the Albertina Museum, Vienna[8], the Belvedere Museum in Vienna[9] and the LENTOS Art Museum in Linz.[10]

Selected Shows

Selected Solo Shows

  • 1958: Ernst Fuchs Gallery, Vienna
  • 1961: Neue Galerie (Landesmuseum Joanneum), Graz
  • 1968: Gallery Marktgasse, Salzburg
  • 1969, 72, 73, 74: With the „Graz Secession“, Galerie 15, Graz
  • 1969: Galerie 16, Secession, Graz
  • 1969: Galerie am Markt (Hans Widrich), Klagenfurt
  • 1970: Galerie Heide Hildebrand, Klagenfurt
  • 1972: Neue Galerie – City of Linz – Wolfgang-Gurlitt-Museum (LENTOS Art Museum). Linz
  • 1972: Galerie 15, Secession, Graz
  • 1973: Gallery Kunst der Ruhr, Essen
  • 1973: Gallery 15, Secession, Graz
  • 1973: Millstatt Congress, Millstatt
  • 1974: Gallery 15, Secession, Graz
  • 1974: Salzburger Graphik, Haus am Kleistpark/Municipality Berlin-Schöneberg, Berlin
  • 1974, 77, 79, 81, 83: Gallery Zell am See, Zell am See
  • 1975: Gallery Simmerl, Saalfelden
  • 1975: Gallery “Am Rabensteig”, Vienna
  • 1975: Traklhaus, Salzburg
  • 1976: Minoritensaal, Graz
  • 1976: Gallery 15, Secession, Graz
  • 1977: Kleine Galerie, Künstlerhaus Klagenfurt
  • 1978: Gallery Droschl, Graz
  • 1979: Safe-Haus, Salzburg
  • 1980: Minoritensaal, Graz
  • 1981: Künstlerhaus, Graz
  • 1985: Künstlerhaus Klagenfurt
  • 1985: Stift Schlierbach, Schlierbach
  • 1985, 86, 88: GIM Gallery, Munich
  • 1988: Bildhauergalerie, Berlin
  • 1989, 91: Gallery Walde & Partner, Zürich
  • 1990: Hipp-Halle, Gmunden
  • 1990: Schloss Goldegg, Goldegg
  • 1991: Bene, Zürich
  • 1991: Bildungshaus St. Virgil, Salzburg
  • 1996: Margret Pilger, Gallery Stift, Schlierbach
  • 1997: Regional Council, Zell am See
  • 1998: Gallery CC, Graz
  • 2004: Stift Mondsee, Mondsee
  • 2006: Stift Millstadt, Millstadt am See
  • 2011: Jesuiten Foyer, Vienna
  • 2016: Schloss Fischhorn, Bruck a.d. Glocknerstrasse

Selected Group Shows

  • 1959 – 1961: Young Generation, Vienna Secession
  • 1972: Austrian Painting 1972, Künstlerhaus, Graz
  • 1975: Perspectives of Art in the Post-war Era, Essen, Germany
  • 1975: Artists from Salzburg. Exhibition of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture, State Gallery of Burgenland, Schloß Esterhàzy, Eisenstadt, Burgenland, Austria
  • 1979: Group 69, Cologne, Germany
  • 1979: Modern Art Gallery, Vienna
  • 1979: Group 77, Darmstadt, Germany
  • 1979: Group 77, Nürnberg, Germany
  • 1980: Group 77, Künstlerhaus, Graz
  • 1981: REALISATIONS, Unrealised projects – realisations, Group 77 with guests, Secession, Vienna
  • 1983: Elfen, Hirschbäck, Lojen, Künstlerhaus Graz, Graz / Österreich
  • 1984: THE IMPATIENT PAPER, An exhibition project, Secession, Vienna
  • 1985: Hommage to Fabian (1905 – 1984), For Gottfried Fabian, from his art group, Group 77 and friends, Minoriten Gallery, Graz
  • 1987: ARTIFEST group exhibition, Künstlerhaus, Graz
  • 1991 – 1992: SZOMBATHELYI, PÉSC, PRAG, Exhibition project
  • 1992: Querschnitt – Three generations, Gallery Traklhaus, Salzburg; Kunstverein Horn, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck; Oberösterreichischer Kunstverein, Linz
  • 2003: 30 Years of Gallery Traklhaus. Part I, Rixdorfer Printing Workshop, Traklhaus, Salzburg
  • 2004: Acquisitions of Salzburg Province 2001-2003. Part I and II, Gallery Traklhaus, Salzburg
  • 2008: Salzburg Museum, Salzburg; From the Collection of the Province of Salzburg II – “Intuitive, Dynamic, Informel”
  • 2010: Salzburg Museum, Salzburg, From the Collection of the Province of Salzburg IV – “Plains and Hills”, curated by Dr. Dietgard Grimmer – Galerie im Traklhaus and Dr. Nikolaus Schaffer – Salzburg Museum

Public Projects

  • St. Elisabeth Parish, Salzburg
  • St. Paul Parish, Salzburg
  • Windows of the Parish Church Schüttdorf, Zell am See, Architect Fidelius Schmidt
  • Parish Church Bruck, Bruck am Ziller, Tyrol
  • Windows of the Parish Church Fusch, Architect Fidelius Schmid
  • Windows of the Parish Church Schwoich, Architect Clemens Holzmeister
  • Windows of the Parish Church Zell am See
  • Windows of the Chapel in Saalfelden, Architect Georg Aigner
  • Windows of the Chapel in Flachau, Architect Georg Aigner
  • Hospital in St. Veit im Pongau, Chapel

Works in Museum Collections

Honours and Awards

  • 1971: Advancement Prize of the Salzburg Province
  • 1971: Graphic Art Competition Prize of the Salzburg AG
  • 1972, 1973: Art Prize Köflach
  • 1974: Acquisition of the Austrian Graphic Art Competition, Innsbruck
  • 1977: Prize of the Province of Steiermark for Contemporary Painting
  • 1980: Slavi-Soucek-Prize for Graphic Art, Salzburg Province

Bibliography

  • Kasten, Walter. Richard Hirschbaeck: Gemälde - Graphik ; Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz Wolfgang-Gurlitt-Museum, 18. Mai bis 11. Juni 1972, Druck- u. Verlagsanst. Gutenberg, 1972
  • Grimmer, Dietgard. Richard Hirschbäck, In Zusammenarbeit mit der Galerie im TRAKLHAUS, Salzburg, 1992
  • RAURIS 1981, TRAKLHAUS, Arge-Alp-Symposium + Malertage, Salzburg, 1981
  • Gerhard Haberl, Horst. Richard Hirschbäck, Publikation in Zusammenarbeit mit der Galerie H, Graz, anläßlich der Ausstellungen in der Galerie AM RABENSTEIG, Wien und im TRAKLHAUS, Salzburg, 1975
  • Hirschbäck, Exhibition catalogue, Künstlerhaus, Salzburg, 1981
  • Hirschbaeck, Richard. Richard Hirschbäck, Exhibition catalogue, GIM Gallery München, 1986
  • Grimmer, Dietgard. Querschnitt, Traklhaus, Salzburg, 1992
  • Künstlergruppe 77, Graz, Künstlergruppe 77, Graz, 1991
  • Neuhold, Alois. Hommage a Gerhard Lojen, Minoriten Galerien Graz, Künstlergruppe 77, Graz, 2007
  • Ungeduldiges Papier, Ausstellung der Künstlergruppe 77 Graz in der Wiener Sezession, Oktober 1984

References

  1. ^ Hirschbäck, Richard. Prologue of the exhibition catalogue in GIM Gallery Munich, 1986
  2. ^ Grazer Sezession, Founding and Chronology from 1923 - 2017 (http://www.sezession-graz.at/)
  3. ^ Salzburger Kunstverein (http://www.salzburger-kunstverein.at)
  4. ^ Lackner, Erwin. Founding of Group 77, (http://www.gruppe77.at/en/verein/grundung/)
  5. ^ Hirschbäck, Richard, Prologue of the exhibition catalogue in GIM Gallery Munich, 1986
  6. ^ Grimmer, Dietgard. „BAUEN + KUNST“, Kultur Land Salzburg, Land Salzburg, 2007 (www.kunstambau.at)
  7. ^ Kasten, Walter. Richard Hirschbaeck: Gemälde - Graphik ; Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz Wolfgang-Gurlitt-Museum, 18. Mai bis 11. Juni 1972, Druck- u. Verlagsanst. Gutenberg, 1972
  8. ^ Richard Hirschbäck in the Collection of the Albertina Museum in Vienna (http://sammlungenonline.albertina.at/?query=Künstler/Verfasser=%5bRichard%20Hirschbaeck%5d&%20showtype=list)
  9. ^ Richard Hirschbaeck in the Collection of the Belvedere Museum, Vienna (http://digital.belvedere.at/people/810/richard-hirschback;jsessionid=9EB01F29828567FD5C0277B57DA1D579)
  10. ^ Richard Hirschbaeck in the Collection of the LENTOS Art Museum in Linz (http://sammlung.lentos.at:8088/showfilingcard.m-box?setmgrname=mboxobj&mobble=a%3A3%3A%7Bi%3A0%3Bi%3A0%3Bi%3A1%3Bi%3A472%3Bi%3A2%3Bi%3A14799%3B%7D&m-box_phpsessid=2f991a2b428b8c519690d6c2738ba293)

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