As part of the Capital of Culture Bad Ischl Salzkammergut 2024, the Tanglberg Gallery will be presenting internationally recognised Austrian artists in the collection at Schloss Hochhaus. Hubert Scheibl with large-format works on paper. The photographer Elfie Semotan with photo prints from her travels, still lifes and portraits. Bauhaus student Hans-Joachim Breustedt with paintings and lithographs, and Peter Kogler with drawings in the Ur-Galerie Tanglberg.
A look back to the ‘68s shows collages and photomontages by the legendary artist group ZÜND-UP, which explored alternative models of thought, visions and experiments.
Hubert Scheibl – (born 1952 in Gmunden), painter, sculptor, musician, researcher.
He is one of the most important Austrian representatives of abstract painting and has enjoyed international success. Nature and the cosmos are considered his most important sources of inspiration. His painting is a permanent experiment in which past, present and future are condensed into a fleeting moment captured in a painting that negates the linear continuity of time. Scheibl deals with essential questions of life that flow into his painting. ‘I have long been searching for an evolutionary primal current in my art, be it in painting, drawing or when I make music.’
Elfie Semotan (born 1941 in Wels, grew up in Vorchdorf), photography.
She lived in Vienna, Paris and New York. She photographed and filmed advertising campaigns for Palmers and Römerquelle, among others, and worked as a portrait photographer for international magazines such as Vogue, Elle, Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar and The New Yorker. Art and nature serve as a source of inspiration for Semotan. They can be found in many of her series, her still lifes, as well as in the haunting portraits of artists with which she changes the view of femininity. She has captured moments of poetry in her landscape photographs and journeys to Africa.
Hans-Joachim Breustedt (1901-1984) – Painter
Born in Thuringia, he was a Bauhaus painter and a master student of Lyonel Feininger in Weimar. His pre-war work was destroyed as a result of the war and he lost his first wife.After the war, he came to Upper Austria through friends and became an Austrian citizen. At the beginning of the 1950s, he married Margret Bilger and lived in Taufkirchen an der Pram. Breustedt was a member of the Vienna Art Club and the MAERZ artists’ group. Solo exhibitions at the Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz and the OÖ. His mostly small formats range between abstract representationalism (heads, figures, still lifes, landscapes) and abstract works with geometric elements.
Zünd-up artist-architect group
The artist group ZÜND-UP was founded in 1969 by Timo Huber, Bertram Mayer, W.M. Pühringer and Hermann Simböck. Alongside Haus-Rucker-Co, COOP HIMMELBLAU, Salz der Erde and Missing Link, it is one of the experimental groups of that generation of architects who explored alternative models of thought and associated visions. As representatives of visionary architecture in Austria, they were directed against encrusted social structures in order to create a new and open atmosphere.
Peter Kogler: At the end of the 1990s, the artist increasingly found his form of artistic expression in computer animations. Tubes, ants, globes and brains remain Kogler’s most important motifs to this day. The artist transforms galleries and museum spaces, as well as railway station concourses and public squares, into virtual labyrinths with sometimes endless and bottomless spatial alignments that change dynamically in exhibition installations. Drawings can be seen in the Tanglberg Gallery.
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Art today?
View the exhibition and then discuss art over a meal in the restaurant. In this way, the Tanglberg/Schloss Hochhaus gallery meets the taste of art lovers.
More about the project at salzkammergut-2024.at
