Fritz Aigner

Fritz Aigner ( born July 13, 1930 in Linz, † 9 January 2005 ) was an Austrian painter.

Life and work

Fritz Aigner attended from 1935 to 1941, the primary school and the secondary school in Linz. From 1941 to 1945 he was homeschoolers in Kremsmünster. At the age of 17 he was admitted without entrance exam of Sergius Pauser in the Vienna Academy, where he studied until 1952. For his thesis Aigner winning the State Prize of the Academy of Fine Arts for the action of the Prodigal Son. Since then, he lived as a freelance artist in Spain, Ireland, London and Linz.

Aigner sat down in his work frequently with Rembrandt apart ( exemplified his oil paintings of Rembrandt trick of the light), in Linz was talk of Aigner as the " Rembrandt of Linz ." Here, Aigner award to as a draftsman and printmaker, these works represent some very dark and apocalyptic scenes with Anspiegelungen on society and well-known people. Also worth mentioning is a separate unit block of large-scale reverse glass paintings.

The ORF wrote on the occasion of his death: " Aigner's most monumental paintings of the old masters in technique, his paintings on glass and a plethora of graphics moving in the field of tension between Eros and religion, between surrealism, realism and fantastic realism. Similarly, concrete allusions that can reach to the limit of the cartoon can be found in his work. "

Aigner was first marriage with the wood seamstress Auguste Kronheim - Aigner and since 1969 with Helga Aigner and had six children. With three of his sons, he has had numerous exhibitions. Paul Florian, Matthias Claudius and Lukas Johannes Aigner were also artists. He died at the age of 74 years in the Wagner Jauregg hospital in Linz.

The artist's works are now in numerous public and private collections. Throughout his life, then many of his works were shown in exhibitions at home and abroad.

The Linz City Museum Nordico devoted Fritz Aigner from 29 September 2008 to 11 January 2009, an exhibition entitled " prodigy painter machine". The show, which was curated by Hannes Etzlstorfer, showed 160 of the approximately 1700 works Aigner.