Josef Pillhofer
Exhibitions and work in public places
"My work has taught me that the determination of a final form depends on the notion of an inner centre to which all pictorial relationships must be assigned. The outline, the silhouette, is the boundary, which is determined from within and the mass of matter to a harmonious appearance."
Meine Arbeit hat mich gelehrt, dass die Bestimmung einer endgültigen Form von der Vorstellung eines inneren Zentrums, dem alle bildnerischen Verhältnisse zugeordnet sein müssen, abhängt.
Der Umriss, die Silhouette, ist die Begrenzung, welche von innen her bestimmt wird
und der Masse der Materie zu einem harmonischen Erscheinungsbild verhilft.
Der Umriss, die Silhouette, ist die Begrenzung, welche von innen her bestimmt wird
und der Masse der Materie zu einem harmonischen Erscheinungsbild verhilft.
excerpt from: Aphorisms by Josef Pillhofer © - Susanna Tabaka-Pillhofer (artist's estate administration)
Biografy
| 2010 - 1921 | most important events / waypoints |
|---|---|
| 1921 | born on 1 June in Vienna, grew up with his parents in Mürzzuschlag, Styria |
| 1938 - 1941 | attended the School of Arts and Crafts in Graz, sculpture class of Professor Wilhelm Gösser |
| 1946 - 1951 | Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with Professor Fritz Wotruba |
| 1950 | Awarded the State Prize of the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna |
| 1950 - 1951 | Studies at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière with Ossip Zadkine; maintains intensive contacts with Constantin Brancusi, Henri Laurens, Alberto Giacometti and Serge Poliakoff |
| 1954 | Participates in exhibitions at the Venice Biennale, the "Exposition internationale de sculpture contemporaine" in the Musée Rodin, Paris, and "9 scultori austriaci" in the Galleria Numero, Florence |
| 1954 -1970 | Assistant lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna |
| 1956 | Participation in the Venice Biennale; award of the Dr. Theodore Korner Prize; |
| 1959 | together with the art theorist Heimo Kuchling and artists such as Oswald Oberhuber, Adolf Frohner, Otto Muehl, Matthias Kohn and Joannis Avramidis, he founded the association "Die Gruppe 59" (Group 59) |
| 1968 | Award of the Austrian State Prize |
| 1970 - 1981 | he becomes professor at the department of sculpture at the School of Applied Arts in Graz and leads a master class |
| 1982 - 1984 | he becomes supportive full professor for artistic design at the Technical University of Graz |
| 2006 | acquires an old sawmill hall in Neuberg and begins to build its own sculpture hall |
| 2008 | Opening of the Josef Pillhofer Skulpturenhalle Neuberg with the exhibition "Josef Pillhofer. Reality and Abstraction" |
| 2010 - 1960 | countless national and international exhibitions, symposia and creation of large sculptures in public space |