Willy Puchner

Willy Puchner ( born March 15, 1952 in Mistelbach, Lower Austria ) is an Austrian photographer, artist, illustrator and author.

Life

Willy Puchner grew up in the Lower Austrian district capital Mistelbach up as the son of a photographer couple. From 1967 to 1974 he attended the Graphical Federal Education and Research Institute in Vienna, Department of Photography. After that, he was a teacher for two years at the same school. Since 1978 freelance photographer, illustrator, artist and author. From 1983 to 1988 he studied philosophy, journalism, history and sociology. In 1988 he approved with a thesis in social philosophy with the title " private photography." Since 1989, regular participation in the Wiener Zeitung.

Willy Puchner became famous with the project " The longing of the Penguins ". He traveled with the polyester Penguin figures Joe & Sally for four years by the sea and in the desert, to New York, Sydney, Beijing and Paris, Venice, Tokyo, Honolulu and Cairo to hold them there in the picture. Freddy Langer wrote about this project in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: " Before famous sights he had them pose as if they were tourists - and photographed them. So he created the most beautiful travel photo album of the twentieth century: ' The desire of the Penguins '. ( FAZ, 8 March 2001)

Its subscribed and handwritten ( Travel ) material books, published as "Diary of Nature" (2001) and " pictorial Wanderlust " (2006), are " one restless Measuring the World ," or maybe the desire to his own place in the coordinate system of the globe to find. (see also "Book Illustration" )

Willy Puchner worked a lot with old people, the projects " The 90 -year-old ", " 100 -year ", "Life history and photography " and "Love in old age" there arose "Dialogue with age ".

Exhibitions (selection)

International Exhibitions

  • Germany: Berlin, Braunschweig, Bremen, Frankfurt am Main, Kleve, Munich
  • Japan: Tokyo, Osaka, Oita, Nagoya, Sapporo
  • United States Norfolk, Washington ( D. C. )
  • Lebanon: Beirut
  • India: Bombay

Publications

  • Trees. 1980, with an essay by Henry David Thoreau, ISBN 3-85447-271-4
  • As a farewell, to return. 1981 with texts by Hermann Hesse, ISBN 3-20601-222-8.
  • Designing with light, form and color. 1981, ISBN 3-87467-207-7.
  • Pictures of Austrian cities. with a text by Harald Sterk, 1982, ISBN 3-21701-262-3.
  • Radiant downfall. with a text by Christoph Ransmayr, 1982, ISBN 3-85447-006-1.
  • Andalusia. with a text by Walter Haubrich, 1983, ISBN 3-7658-0420-7.
  • Pictures of Austrian landscape. with a text by Harald Sterk, 1983, ISBN 3-21701-189-9.
  • The clouds of the desert. with a text by Manfred Pichler, 1983, ISBN 3-89416-150-7
  • Village images. 1983, ISBN 3-21800-387-3
  • Migratory birds since time immemorial. with a text by Erich Hackl, 1983, ISBN 3-21024-848-6.
  • The heart of the sky. with a text by Erich Hackl, 1985, ISBN 3-21024-813-3.
  • The longing of the Penguins, 1992, ISBN 3-44617-200-9.
  • I am ... 1997, ISBN 3-79182-910-6.
  • Diary of nature. 2001, ISBN 3-85326-244-9.
  • Airport. A world of its own. 2003, ISBN 3-85326-277-5.
  • The longing of the Penguins. revised edition, 2004, ISBN 3-89405-518-9.
  • Illustrated wanderlust. Come from travel and home. 2006, ISBN 3-89405-389-5.
  • Vienna. Pleasure and melancholy. 2008, ISBN 3-85033-159-8.
  • Willy Puchners animal life. 2008, ISBN 3-85033-200-4.
  • Willy Puchners world of colors. Residenz Verlag, Salzburg 2011, ISBN 3-70172-081-9.
  • A bunny rabbit, Bloomsbury, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-82705-521-7.
  • ABC's of fabulous princesses. North-South Verlag, Zurich, 2013, ISBN 978-3-314-10129-8.

Publications in journals

Puchner since 1989 working as a freelance editor for the Wiener Zeitung. He also had publications in the journals extra leaf, Universe, butterflies, concreteness, Mare, Stern, GEO, Life (USA), Corriere della Sera (Italy ), Marco Polo ( Japan) and many others.

In weekly travel journal of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung published Puchner alone until December 2013 so far 39 full-page texts, drawings and collages entitled Puchners color theory.

Film

  • Screenplay ( with others) for the movie " theater of the mind ", directed by Michael Glawogger, Vienna 1996

Awards

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