Karl Korab
Works from 1969 - 1999
Palais Harrach, 1st Floor
September 14 - October 17, 1999
As an artistic individualist, Karl Korab created during the last decades a substantial and very consistent oeuvre, characterised technically by its particular combination of painting and collage. Especially during the last few years, his pictorial compositions have concentrated on the theme "landscape and have created wide ranging "spaces of experiences combined with concrete material experiences.
The exhibit at the Palais Harrach will offer both an overview of Karl Korabs artistic development, and present his most recent groups of works for the first time. Thus the unique power of the artists pictures, which reach out to the viewer in a comprehensive way and particularly not one confined to purely art-historical categories - will become apparent.
In conjunction with the exhibition a comprehensive catalogue-book documenting the whole development of the artists works will be published.
Karl Korab was born on April 26, 1937 in Falkenstein/Lower Austria as the son of a forestry superintendent. He was eight when the Second World War ended, and his experience of aerial bombardments is noticeable in his early pictures. In 1949, the family moved to Maissau in the Weinviertel /Lower Austria, and Korab attended the local high school (Realgymnasium) at Horn. His strong interest in painting intensified when he was 14, and his wish to become a painter began to develop and mature.
After finishing high school in 1957, he attended the master-class of Sergius Pauser at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. During his first year at the Academy, he received the Award of the Masterschool and the Golden Fuger Medal.
1958 he comes into contact with the Vienna School of Fantasists;
Hausner, Lehmden, Hutter, Fuchs, and Brauer
influence his early paintings
1959 he is invited by Ernst Fuchs to exhibit together with the Fantasists
1964 he receives diploma and Finishing Award of the Academy
1965 he participates at the Trigon in Graz
1968 he creates stage set and costumes for Schnitzlers
"Zum großen Wurstel"
1971 he buys a plot of land in the Weinviertel/Lower Austria, and builds a house with studio.
He concludes a 10-year contract with the Krugier Gallery in Geneva, which leads to exhibitions in, among others, Paris, London, New York, Tokyo, Brussels, Geneva, and Zurich
1972 he receives Lower Austrias Award for Culture
1973 he receives the Sandoz Prize
1997 he receives Lower Austrias Golden Medal for Distinguished Service on the occasion of a large-scale retrospective at Grafenegg
Opening Hours:
September 14 until October 17, 1999
daily 10 a.m. until 6 p.m.
Entrance Fees:
Adults ATS 100,-
Concessions ATS 70,-
Family Ticket ATS 200,-
School groups per pupil ATS 20,-
Ticket for guided tour ATS 20,-
Catalogue:
200 pages, hardcover edition, c. ATS 398,-
Further Information:
Kunsthistorisches Museum
A-1010 Vienna, Burgring 5
tel. (+43/1) 525 24 - 403, - 404
fax: (+43/1) 523 27 70
e-mail: annita.mader@khm.at
e-mail: ruth.strondl@khm.at
"Im Dunklen"
"Fundstelle"
Still Life
Landscape
"Gefäße"