Elmar Peintner (born 13 October 1954) is an Austrian contemporary artist. Peintner lives and works in Imst, Tyrol.
Early life
Peintner was born in 1954 in Zams, near Landeck in Tyrol, the second of seven children of Hubert Peintner, a teacher, and Laura Peintner, née Koeck, a tailoress.
From 1954 to 1972, he spent his childhood and youth in Landeck. In 1972, he sat his A-level examinations at Landeck Grammar School.
Higher education
Between 1972 and 1974, he was a student at the Teacher Training Academy in Zams, qualifying as a primary school teacher. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts under Prof. Maximilian Melcher from 1974 to 1979. In 1979, he was awarded a diploma and a Master of Fine Arts.
2008 Price at the International Print Exhibition Yunnan 2008, Kunming, China
2009 Price of honour at the 1st International Graphik Biennial - China 2009, Fushun City, China
2009 Guanlan International Print Prize at the 2nd Guanlan International Print Biennial 2009, Shenzhen, China
2013 Decoration of Honour of the state Tyrol, Austria
2016 Decoration of Honour of the City of Landeck for Art and Culture
Art
Menschenbilder (senescent children)
The Window, 1983, Pencil, Aquarell on Paper, 13 x 18,5 cm
Elmar Peintner rose to popularity at the beginning of the 1980s. He was a contemporary artist best known for his “Menschenbilder” (senescent children pictures), usually executed with hard pencils and additional water-colour, the models being from the family circle, the neighbourhood, or local rest homes. In the forefront, as with all his work, is not the naturalistic reproduction of nature, but the attempt to penetrate to the physical and mental structure of man via realism of microstructures.
Visibility, Invisibility, Reality
Nightpicture # 1049: Falling plastic Houses and Head of Eagle, 2002, Pencil, Egg tempera on primed paper, 38 x 27 cm, Collection Europa Haus, Tokyo
In the 90s work Peintner restricts himself to placing totally different objects next to or above, and thus in relation to, each other. The artist does not seek to create a "super – reality" by means of dream and subconscious, but in his pictures he presents poetic enigmas containing questions of reality. Far from any illusionism, neutrally suspended, what has been experienced and reflected, the real and the imaginary, meet in a tense relationship with each other, in the intention of contributing to the awareness and perception of reality.
Transform
Now Elmar Peintner presents (Museum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck, 2004) a new series of graphite drawings which deal purely and simply with what nature offers: records of fragments or conglomerates from the patterns in nature, fanned out facet-like and presented in their transparency: ramifications, hollows, dense plasticity, nerve structures. They are not scientific herbaceous exhibits, nor are they a catalogue of floral prints. On the contrary, the subject matter emanates a liveliness of substance with all the phases of growth and decay. Inner issues and energy are released. The various processes in the unyieldingness of the substance are noted. Peintner's position as a re-creator of this nature also comes out. He declares himself in his consistency and his stamping of the graphic production. He reduces his ideal world to the factual in the motif.
OE Nr.130-15: Untitled, 2004, Pencil on canvas, 130 x 95 cm, Collection at the Tyrolean State Museum, Innsbruck
2016 World in the Eyes of Chinese Artists and China in the Eyes of World Artists, Yan Huang Art Museum, Beijing, China (Catalogue)
2016 1st TKO International Miniprint Exhibition 2016, B-gallery, Tokyo, Art Zone Kaguraoka, Kyoto, Gallery Irohani, Osaka, Japan (Catalogue)
2016 2nd JOGJA International Miniprint Biennale (JIMB) 2016, Sangkring Art Project, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (Catalogue)
2016 Relation in PRINT #2, Tirana House, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2016 8 Douro Biennial 2016, Douro, Portugal (Catalogue)
2016 15th Lessedra World Art Print Annual, Lessedra Gallery & Contemporary Art Projects, Sofia, Bulgaria (Catalogue)
2016 V. International Printmaking Competition Istanbul, Association of the Museums of Painting and Sculpture, CKM Caddebostan Cultural Center, Kadikoy, Istanbul, Turkey Catalogue)
2016 Grafik im Wechsel der Techniken, Theodor von Hörmann Galerie, Imst, Austria, Kuratorin Elisabeth Maireth
2016 OSTEN Biennial of Drawing, Museum of Drawing, Skopje, Macedonia (Catalogue)
2016 Amateras Annual Paper Art Exhibition 2016, Art Alley Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria (Catalogue)
2016 Experimentales von G.K.N. und Druckgrafik von Dürer bis..., Museum im Ballhaus, Imst, Austria
2016 13th International Biennial of Miniature Art, Cultural Centre Modern Gallery, Gornji Milanovac, Republic of Serbia (Catalogue)
2016 7th Lessedra International Painting & Mixed Media Competition, Lessedra Gallery & Contemporary Art Projects, Sofia, Bulgaria (Catalogue)
2015 6th Beijing International Art Biennial, National Art Museum of China (NAMOC), Beijing, China
2015 Einzelausstellung, "Changes and Transformations", Vertretung der Europaregion Tirol - Südtirol -Trentino, Brussels, Belgium
2015 Tokyo International Mini-Print Triennal 2015, Tama Art University, Japan, (Catalogue)
2015 18th International Print Biennial Varna 2015, Varna City Art Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria (Catalogue)
2013 4th Lessedra International Painting & Mixed Media Competition, Lessedra Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2013 Stillleben – Positionen aus sechs Jahrzehnten, Schloss Kastelbell, Kastelbell – Tschars, Italy
2013 Art Book exhibition, Sofia Paper Art Fest 2013, National History Museum, Sofia, Bulgaria, Catalogue)
2013 CRUX – Das Symbol des Kreuzes, Diözesanmuseum Hofburg Brixen, Brixen, Italy, Kurator Markus Neuwirth (Catalogue)
2013 Paper Art Exhibition 2013 Amateras, Art Alley Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria (Catalogue)
2013 17th International Print Biennial Varna 2013, Varna City Art Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria (Catalogue)
2013 12th Lessedra World Art Print Annual, Lessedra Gallery & Contemporary Art Projects, Sofia, Bulgaria (Catalogue)
2012 5th Beijing International Art Biennale (BIAB) 2012, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China (Catalogue)
2012 3rd Bangkok Triennale, International Print and Drawing Exhibition, Bangkok Art and Culture Center, Bangkok, Thailand (Catalogue)
2012 Creative Cities Collection, zusammen mit Bridget Riley, John Atkin, Sean Scully u. a., Barbican Centre, London, GB (Catalogue)
2012 Tribuna Graphic 2012, Art Museum of Cluj, Cluj, Romania (Catalogue)
2012 1st International Biennale of Santorini, Greece
2012 Amateras Paper Art Exhibition, Art Alley Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria (Catalogue)
2012 7th International Graphic Triennial Bitola, NI Institute and Museum, Bitola, Macedonia (Catalogue)
2012 33rd International Impact Art Festival, Kyoto City Museum, Kyoto, Japan (Catalogue)
2012 3rd International Exhibition in a very small size, Lessedra Gallery and Art Projects, Sofia, Bulgaria
2012 2nd International Print Exhibition Fushun 2012, Fushun Sculpture Museum, Fushun City, China (Catalogue)
2011 Bienal Internacional de Gravura Santos 2011, Pinacoteca Benedicto Calixto, Santos, São Paulo, Brazil (Catalogue)
2011 "Gastspiel", 40 österreichische Künstler aus der Sammlung der RLB, WGZ Bank, Düsseldorf, Germany, Kuratoren Ralf Hartweg und Silvia Höller (Catalogue)
2011 IV. International Print Exhibition Istanbul, Tophane-i Amire, Istanbul, Turkey (Catalogue)
2011 "Mythos Berg", together with Herbert Brandl, Andreas Gursky, Hamish Fulton, Walter Niedermayr u.a., RLB Kunstbrücke, Innsbruck, Austria, Kuratorin Silvia Höller, (Catalogue)
2011 Sofia Paper Art Festival - Amateras, Gallery Art Alley, Sofia, Bulgaria (Catalogue)
2011 Kunst und Kindheit, zusammen mit Kogler, Mullican, Fuchs u. a., UBUNTU Forum, Imst, Austria
2011 Grabados por la Paz México, Arte AC / Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
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