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Robert
Hammerstiel
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http://www.hammerstiel.at
Prof.
Robert
HAMMERSTIEL
Altstraße 43
2630 Ternitz
Tel.und
Fax: +43 2630 37788
Meinen
Sohn Robert F. Hammerstiel (arbeitet mit Fotografie, Video, Installation)
erreichen
Sie unter www.hammerstiel.net
NEW
YORK
ZYKLUS
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Die Eindrücke meiner New York Reisen ab dem Jahr 1988 haben meinen
Arbeiten eine neue Grundlage gegeben.
So schuf ich bis heute, durchaus beeindruckt
von den großflächigen und farbkräftigen Arbeiten meiner New Yorker
Malerkollegen - aber meinem Stil treu bleibend - einen Zyklus von mehr
als 100 Arbeiten, hier eine kleine Auswahl.
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The
impressions of my journeys to New York starting in 1988 gave my works a
new foundation.
And so I created till today, quite impressed by large size and colorful
paintings of my New York Painter colleagues - but remaining true to my
style – a cycle of more than 100 works, here you see a small sample of
them.
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Artist's
Biography
Born
on February 18th, 1933 in Vrsac, in the former Yugoslavia
1944-1947 Displacement and detention in various internment and concentration
camps
1958 Awarded Prize for Painting by the Austrian Trade Union Federation
Studied at the Vienna School of the Arts (Wien Kunstschule)
1968 First single exhibition in Vienna
1988 Trip to New York
Robert
Hammerstiel’s early childhood was strongly impacted by the events of World War
2. In 1944 his ethnic German family was displaced from the Banat region.
Detentions in various internment and concentration camps followed, until in 1947
they succeeded in fleeing to Austria and settled near Ternitz in Lower Austria.
Hammerstiel found initial employment as a steel worker in Ternitz. In 1950, he
turned his attention to art and painting under the direction of his father. In
1958, he was awarded a Prize for Painting by the Austrian Trade Union
Federation, which made it possible for him to complete an art degree at the
Vienna School of the Arts (Wien Kunstschule).
It is above all the traumatic events of his childhood, which flowed through the
work of the young artist and inspired his work into his later years.
Dark and dreary color palettes with sporadic color accents were characteristic
of these war inspired pictures. In the presentation of the figures, Hammerstiel
was limited to basic human forms, lacking individual traits of any kind, whereby
the images conveyed an ominous latent tension. His intention was to disorient
the observer, to shake and reprove. A stay in New York in 1988 caused a drastic
change in his work. The impact of the diverse American art scene caused
Hammerstiel to develop a new style: his previously already simple forms were
once more radically reduced, and the dreary color palette gave way to strong,
bright, flashy colors in red, orange, pink, green, yellow, and blue. A new
simplicity emerged.
A
later trip to New York in the 1990s inspired the artist to a comprehensive
series of more than 100 pictures.
He created an additional 77 part series entitled ?Homage,? which he dedicated to
significant artists of the 19th and 20th centuries from Renoir to de Staal. He
skillfully positioned these artists? works alongside his own typical Hammerstiel
figures.
In addition to the general emphasis on the dignity of every man, which is pulled
like a red thread through his work, there are topics from the world of work and
religion, inspired by his own personal experiences, which give his images an
unusual timelessness. His work joins his own life experiences and his life?s
conviction with the artistic creation in an inseparable unity.
Robert Hammerstiel still lives and works in Ternitz in Lower Austria.
Biographical
Information from:
http://www.galerielehner.at/index.php?artist=29&bio&lang=en
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