Paul Flora

Paul Flora ( born June 29, 1922 in Glorenza, South Tyrol, † 15 May 2009 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian artist, cartoonist, graphic artist and illustrator.

3.1 Selections

4.1 texts

5.1 in Galleries
5.2 in museums

Life

Paul Flora was born in 1922 in Glorenza Venosta in South Tyrol. In 1927 he moved with his family to North Tyrol. At the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, he studied from 1942 to 1944 under Adolf Schinnerer and Olaf Gulbransson. He attended two semesters at the Abendakt Max von Esterle. In 1944 he was drafted into military service in Italy, Hungary and Slovakia. In 1945, he returned after a short American captivity back to Tyrol back and has since worked as a freelance artist in Innsbruck. He lived on the hunger castle, a northern district above Innsbruck.

In 1948 he was admitted as a member of the Art - Club (Vienna). Since 1986 he was a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. Since 1999 he was a member of the PEN Club Liechtenstein. From 2003 to 2006 he worked there as president and was elected honorary president because of his many contributions to the club.

Working out of his hand can be found in many public and private collections.

In addition, he was co-founder of the municipal gallery Taxispalais in 1964, and initiator of the "Austrian graphic competition". From 1964 to 1992 he curated alongside Wilfried Kirschl, Oswald Oberhuber and Peter Weiermair exhibitions for the gallery in Taxispalais.

Paul Flora died in the night of May 15, 2009 in Innsbruck hospital surrounded by his family. At his own request Paul Flora was buried in the cemetery of his birth community Glurns. At Flora's 89th birthday, on 29 June 2011, the Paul Flora museum dedicated to him posthumously Glurns the community in Valle tower. There has since been to see a permanent exhibition on the life and work.

Artistic creation

Technology

Even before 1950 he broke with the dense hatching, the finely annoying, thin line, delicate outline drawing applied to and developed a distinctive line art with pen and ink, with which he was in future identified. From the wrinkled brittle outlines his cartoonist time he gone evolved to greater line density, variable network of lines and fine hatching. In the sixties, the bar has been fixed, the outline thicker, the internal drawing increasingly dominant. By a narrow area network, a variety of shades of gray created. By these means he created so aware of through-composed images. From his " nervous line storms " and gray-value variants diverse moods showed predominantly dark and melancholic. In the seventies of the hatch, the tide began to reconquer, by which he produced effects with finely graded contrast from light to dark. At the same time, he also set the color as another picturesque element of his graphic work, a ( watercolor, colored pencil later ). In the eighties, he supplemented his oeuvre with the pencil drawing.

Work for newspapers

Began in 1949 through the mediation of Werner Scholz his participation in the American daily newspaper for Germany, the Neue Zeitung. Between 1957 and 1971 he delivered weekly drawings to the Hamburg newspaper Die Zeit, in particular for Rudolf Walter Leonhardt's column Pros & Cons. In these years, around 3000 political cartoons and Flora emerged thus made himself as a political cartoonist a name. His drawings have been published in international Scroll: The Times Literary Supplement, You, Dagens Nyheter and The Observer.

Book illustrations

In the early days of his work many book illustrations created satirical content. In 1953, an intensive cooperation with the Diogenes Verlag began in Zurich. In addition to folders and thematic compilations of his own works were books by Peter Hacks, Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Erich Kästner, Josef Müller- Marein and Hans Weigel, who were among many other of Paul Flora not only illustrated, but complements brilliantly with his pen.

Layout and design

1963 Flora designed the sets for Amphitryon ( Kleist ) in the Academy Theatre in Vienna and in 1998 set the stage for The King ( Ionesco ) in the German Schauspielhaus in Hamburg

Between 1985 and 1998, several stamp series with designs by Paul Flora in Austria (1985 and 1993) and the Principality of Liechtenstein (1998) and a set of seven Olympic Marks ( 1988) appeared. For example, Paul Flora Flying Harlequin image adorns a commemorative stamp. The Flying Harlequin reflects the hustle and bustle of the Carnival of Venice and also the atmosphere of the city. The figures and masks, which still transform Venice at the time of the carnival in a city of illusion, inspired the imagination of the artist.

Michel No. 887-889 First Day December 9, 1985: Theatre
Michel No. 934-936 First Day December 7, 1987: Olympic Winter Games Calgary
Michel No. 947-950 First Day September 5, 1988: Summer Olympic Games Seoul
Michel No. 1004 First Day December 3, 1990: 500 years of international postal communications in Europe
Michel No. 1173-1176 First Day June 2, 1998: Greeting Stamps - Fun on the letter

Michel No 1829 First Day October 25, 1985: Modern Art in Austria
Michel No 2095 first day of issue April 16, 1993: EUROPE - Contemporary Art

Since 1980 the Austrian post office phone cards issued. In 1994 one of Paul Flora decorated with puppets series of four telephone cards.

United Nations - New York

Michel No. 577 First Day August 23, 1989: United Nations Office in Vienna 10 years - a value of six values comprehensive edition.

For his South Tyrolean wine suppliers, he designed wine labels. The fee he settled preferably in the form of natural products ( wine) " pay out ". He dedicated to various clubs logos or drawings, such as the " cine- round Kufstein ", the " art circle Aichwald " or the " Absamer mud besiegers ."

Although they represent only a small part of his work, the spitzschnabeligen Ravens, with whom he symbolized human behavior, a hallmark of Paul Flora's were.

Works

Selections

The catalog raisonné of illustrated books published in 1992 for the 70th birthday Paul Floras. It includes 135 book titles and 10 portfolios of 45 years and are available in 67 illustrations, an overview of the artist's work.

Works in the public domain (selection)

Texts

Exhibitions

In Galleries

And exhibitions in hundreds of galleries in Europe and the USA. Its common galleries were in Innsbruck ( Gallery Flora) and Salzburg (gallery Seywald )

In museums

Awards and prizes

Movies

From 1989 to 1991, several films were made over and flora for the ORF:

The ravens of San Marco ( the flora )
Flora Fauna (via Flora)
A fisherman in the Over ( on Alfred Kubin )
An adventurer in a dressing gown (via Paul von Rittinger )
On the bottom line - Paul Flora in the 2007 film,
Documentary about the artist Paul Flora by Eva Testor ( Mobile Movie )

Others

In one scene of the film Solo Sunny (1980 ) by Konrad Wolf is to see the picture " sphere, a castle ruining " by Paul Flora.

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