Gunter Damisch

(*1958)

Austria – Contemporary Art – Neo-Expressionism – Gunter Damisch

Vita:

Gunter Damisch studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. His professors included Arnulf Rainer and Maximilian Melcher. In 1983 he successfully completed his studies with a diploma in graphics. He owes his breakthrough to his environment „the new wild painting“ and the fact that he soon also belonged to this group. The “new savages” were characterized by the idea of ​​further developing figurative painting towards open pictorial forms. This new development gave this team, and of course Gunter Damisch, the opportunity to establish themselves in the art scene. Numerous exhibitions and honors that he received for his oeuvre followed. To this day Gunter Damisch and his work are described as unmistakable, convincing and consistent. All of these characteristics gave him the fame and reputation that he is one of the most important international representatives of Austrian contemporary art.

Work:

The work of Gunter Damisch is characterized by the versatility he creates between abstraction and figuration. His basic idea is that his art is about thinking in pictures. It is a kind of visual world interpretation that does not want to prescribe anything but wants to represent the causality between order and chaos, solidification and dissolution. His oeuvre can be divided into the earlier work, which was characterized by graphic techniques and sculptures, and into the later work, which was mainly characterized by painting with the intensive use of strong colors. In the latter part of his work he is characterized by the reference to pointillism and art nouveau.