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Weiler, Max
© Copyright Max Weiler, Schönbichl bei Gerlos, painting, 1945 (Wiener Städtische Versicherung AG, Vienna) Weiler, Max, b. Absam (Tyrol), Aug. 27, 1910, d. Vienna, Jan. 29, 2001, painter and graphic artist. 1964-1980 thought at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, 1960 Austrian representative at the Biennale in Venice, from 1967 in the Austrian Arts Senate. Tries to capture the "inner life" of nature and landscape in abstract forms. Has created panel paintings, water paintings, drawings and graphic reproductions, and since 1946 significant sequences of frescoes (at first controversial) e.g. in Innsbruck (St. Theresa Church on the Hungerburg plateau, Central Railway Station, Stadtsaal multi-purpose centre) and in Linz (Friedenskirche Church in Urfahr), as well as mosaics, glass paintings and ceramic murals in public places. 1960 Grand Austrian State Prize, Austrian Award for Science and Art in 1979. Literature: W. Skreiner, M. W., 1975; O. Breicha (ed.), W., die innere Figur, 1989; K. Hauser, M. W., Portraits 1933-1990, 1990; W. Innenschau, exhibition catalogue, Innsbruck 1992; M. W. Bilder von 1985-1991, exhibition catalogue, Vienna 1994; W. Schmied, M. W., 1998; E. Köb (ed.), M. W. Im Jahrhundert der Moderne. Malerei seit 1927, exhibition catalogue, Vienna 1999. References to other albums:
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