2014 | awarding of the title „professor“ through federal minister Andrä Rupprechter |
since 1987 | Freelance artist |
1986 | Scholarship for a 6-month study visit for Pharaonic Art in Cairo, Egypt |
1982 – 1987 |
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, student under Professor Ferdinand Welz and Professor Franz Xaver Ölzant |
1978 – 1982 | University of Applied Sciences for Sculpture – technical collage, Innsbruck |
1960 | Born on 29th September in Wörgl |
2018 | Exhibition st. Stephen’s Cathedral / Barbarakapelle "12 Apostel & Hl. Barbara" |
2016 | Exhibition Sparkasse Kufstein, Kufstein |
2012 | Museum of Fine Arts in Valletta, Malta |
2011 | Exhibition EU Parliament, Brussels, with presentation "Silent Night Path" |
2009 | Exhibition and speech, EU Parliament in Strassbourg, theme: “Art and Hunting”, speech in the EU Parliament, exhibition Jerusalem, Via Dolorosa (Austrian hospice) |
2008 | Exhibition Euregio-House in Brussels |
2007 | Exhibition Austrian Cultural Institute in Rome, Audience with Pope Benedict XVI |
2006 | German Chamber of Commerce in Prague |
2004 | World Trade Center, New Orleans, USA |
2001 | Art Cult Centre Vienna, Tobacco Museum |
1999 | Exhibition in the Vienna House of Arts |
1996 | Real Estate H&H in Innsbruck |
1995 | Weißenburgpark in Stuttgart, presentation "Zodiac Calendar” Vienna House of Arts |
1994 | Sailer Gallery in Innsbruck, Donau Business Centre inVienna, Interalpen Hotel Telfs, presentation “Bergzyklus” Schloss Kaps in Kitzbühel |
1993 | Ken's Art Gallery in Florence, Ulrichshaus in Innsbruck, Vienna House of Arts “Christliches Werk” |
1992 | Management Centre – Schloss Elbroich in Duesseldorf, Germany |
1991 | Atelier in Hamburg, Admiralitätsstraße |
1990 | ORF regional studio Tirol, gallery Elefant in Hall in Tirol, Association of Industrialists, Vienna |
1989 | Participation in the exhibition “Neuaufnahmen 1980 – 89” in the Vienna House of Artists, presentation “Tiroler Freiheit 1809 – 1989” in Wörgl, Austria |
large sculptures | |
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2020 | Tennis player, bronze, 2.85 m, Schloss Kaps Kitzbühel / golf player, bronze 3.4 m Schloss Kaps Kitzbühel / Beethoven’s relief, plaster 1.7 m x1.2 m, Kitzbühel / Faistenberger’s Kitzbühel relief 1620-2020, plaster, 1.1 m x 1.05 m |
2019 | “Hubertus” relief, bronze, St. Anton am Arlberg, 2.5 m x 1.85 m 12 tree reliefs “project Canada”, plaster, 0.6 m x 0.4 m |
2018 | 2 stone statuettes 1.4 m, Southafrican marble / “spring statuette” and ‚stream of water‘ 1.9 m and 1.9 m, marble of Laas / Twelve apostles, Saint Barbara, both 1.25 m, made for the exhibition at St. Stephen’s Cathedral, starting 2016 |
2017 | sitting and lying musicians, bronze, 1.4 m Graz |
2016 | “Diana”, bronze, 3.2 m, Mellrichstadt an der Rhön |
2015 | Large stone statuette, “source of life”, Treporti, Venice, 1.8 m x 1.2 m x 1 m |
2014 | „spring of life” - jura marble - 1.80 m tall “7 waterways” - carrara marble 1.20 m long various sculptures |
2013 | relief Pope Hadrian VI, carrara marble 1.70m x 1.20m, library Santa Maria dell’anima Rome, fountain “Waldwainberg WBG” 5.30 m long, 2.50 m wide, 3 m tall finalization “Friedensweg / Path of Piece“ Hochburg Ach |
2012 | relief Pope Benedict XVI, carrara marble, 1.7 m x 1.2 m, library Santa Maria dell’Anima, Rome altar Anima in Rome, 1.05 tall, 1.2 m wide and 1.8 m long |
2011 | Begin 8 piece cycle – Silent Night – Holy Night – Friedensweg |
2010 | The Trinity Cross, Divine Saviour Vienna, bronze, 2.8 m tall |
2009 | Raiffeisenbausparzentrale, Vienna – a fountain sculpture, stainless steel bronze, 6 m long |
2007 | Fountain made of stainless steel and bronze, Münster (senior-citizens home), 3.5 m tall sandstone figure, Innsbruck, 2.8 m tall |
2006 | Music relief, Schwaz, bronze 2.5 m x 1.6 m |
2005 | 2 sculptures of lions, cast stone sculptures 2.5 m tall, residential complex, Reith bei Kitzbühel |
2004 | Opening of the Franziskusweg – 9 sculptures made of stone and bronze, 3.5 m tall Trinity Cross, made of bronze, 2.8 m tall, M4-shopping centre Wörgl |
2002 | Completion 4 piece watercourse cycle – for head office of Donauversicherung, Vienna, 1.8 m – 3.5 m, fountain sculpture for Tirol Werbung, Innsbruck, bronze 2.5 m tall Bronze sculpture, portrait “Robert Schlumberger” 100th anniversary, company Underberg Schlumberger 2 m tall |
2001 | Mellrichstadt, relief for the company Reich's production hall 33 m long plaster/watercourse begin of large sculpture “Mother Earth”, carrara marble |
2000 | Completion sculptures for KTW in Kirchbichl, fountain, bronze 3.5 m long, stone sculpture carrara marble, 3 m tall, relief in bronze, 2 m diameter, globe, aluminium cast, 1,25 m diameter new construction of atelier, move from Vienna to Tirol |
1999 | Relief Vincenz of Paul, 2.4 m tall, 3.9 m long, hospital of the “Barmherzigen Schwestern” Vienna |
1998 | Fountain in cast stone, Bad Häring, Tirol, 2.5 m tall |
1997 | Relief for the Association for the Blind, Vienna, 2 m x 1.6 m, oak |
1996 | Fountain in St. Ulrich am Pillersee, 3.2 m tall, 5 m long |
1995 | Tennis sculpture for Leibnitz/Thomas Muster, bronze 2.5 m tall second renovation of atelier in Tirol/Wildschönau |
1994 | Pillar, way of the cross 2.2 m tall, oak, Landhaus Innsbruck |
1991 | 3 sculptures at the beginning of Wörgl, 3.5 m tall, aluminium and bronze |
1990 | Fountain Raiffeisenkasse Wörgl 1.6 m tall, bronze Brunnen Raiffeisenkasse Wörgl H 160 cm, Bronze |
1989 | Relief in limestone Raiffeisenkasse Wörgl, 2.6 x 2.4 m |
1988 | Sculpture “Control Data”, Dortmund, Germany, metal sculpture, 4.7 m tall |
I have lived and worked in Tirol and Vienna as a freelance artist since 1987. In all these years, I have moulded more than 45 large sculptures in bronze or stone.
Some important sculptures are for example:
• 4 sculptures in bronze - watercourse for head office of
Donauversicherung
• 5 sculptures up to 3 m tall for KTW in Kirchbichl
• 4.6 m tall sculpture for the south campus of the University
in Dortmund
• watercourse with 33 m for the Reich company in
Mellrichstadt/BRD
• 9 sculptures “Canticle of the Sun composed by Saint Francis
of Assisi”, in bronze and 3.2 m tall
I was awarded the “Theodor-Körner” award, for my sculpture “Mother Earth”.
Akademie Förderungspreis, member in the Vienna House of Artists