Bruno Gironcoli

Bruno Gironcoli ( born September 27, 1936 in Villach, † February 19, 2010 in Vienna) was an Austrian painter and sculptor.

Life and work

Bruno Gironcoli began in 1951 a goldsmith in Innsbruck, where he graduated in 1956 with a final examination. Between 1957 and 1962 he studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. He then went to Paris, where he influenced the works of Alberto Giacometti's artistic. Gironcoli worked with the materials of wood, nylon, iron, aluminum, glass, pitch, and wire. In 1968 he had his first solo exhibition at the Galerie St. Stephan.

1977 Giro coli was appointed as head of the school of sculpture at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, where he worked until 2004 as a successor to Fritz Wotruba. He received in 1993 the Grand Austrian State Prize for Fine Arts and in 2003 was the official representative of Austria at the Biennale di Venezia.

Bruno Gironcoli was buried at Vienna's Central Cemetery.

Awards

Museale reception

The largest overall view of his work is from September 2004 to visit in its own museum in the park of Schloss Herbersteins in (Styria ). At 2000 square feet of space many of his large-format, reminiscent of futuristic machines sculptures are exhibited.

In Vienna, some of his works in the arts and event hall Gironcoli crystal are on permanent display.

Publications

• The sculptures from 1956 to 2008. Deutsch. - Engl. Edited by Bettina M. Busse, 2008, ISBN 978-3-7757-1925-4.
• Bruno Gironcoli - 11 sculptures. Exhibition catalog Gerhard- Marcks - Haus, Bremen, 2007. ISBN 978-3-924412-58-6.
• Bruno Giro coli. Biennale di Venezia 2003. Austrian Pavilion. Deutsch. - Italien. - Engl. Edited by Kasper König and Bettina M. Busse, 2006, ISBN 978-3-85493-125-6.
• Christian Reder: Researchers ways of thinking. Essays on artistic works ( Bruno Giro coli and others), Edition Transfer Springer, Vienna / New York 2004, ISBN 3-211-20523-3
• The Unborn The Not Gotten, exhibition catalog MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna 1997.