Helmuth Gräff

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Helmuth Gräff
Helmuth Gräff im Gespräch mit Günter Stummvoll.jpg
Helmuth Gräff (left) and , former Austrian Secretary of State
Born12 April 1958 (1958-04-12) (age 63)
NationalityAustria
Known forPainter, drawer and poet
MovementExpressionism
Awards1st prize "Freunde der Akademie" (1983)
WebsiteHelmuth Gräff official website
Exhibition, Helmuth Gräff with the Vice-Chancellor of Austria, Wolfgang Brandstetter (centre)

Helmuth Gräff (born 12 April 1958 in Gars am Kamp) is an Austrian painter, poet and drawer. Gräffs painterly style is rooted on the one hand in the artistic heritage of Vincent van Gogh,[1] and on the other hand he can also be regarded as a precursor or heritage of the Neuen Wilde.[2]

Life[]

Helmuth Gräff is the child of Rudolf Gräff and Leopoldine Gräff (born Kimmerl) from Vienna-Schwechat, who belongs to the family of former imperial judge Matthias Kimmerl of (1818–1883). Gräff was married first to Martina Maria Gach, daughter of the architect Richard Gach. His son Matthias Laurenz Gräff works also as an academic painter.

In his youth Helmuth Gräff had been drawing thousands of artworks and kept on practising until the age of 20 where he began to study at the by .[3] Between 1979 and 1983 he studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna of and later Friedensreich Hundertwassers masterclass of painting.[4]

Since 1989 is Gräff self-employed as an academic painter, drawer and poet. The themes of his artworks are on the one hand compositions with spiritual and religious contents, and on the other hand works in the nature (Italy, France, Florida, Bali).

Gräff exhibited among others in the Palais Palffy,[5][6] Palais Todesco[7] and Museum of Young Art[8] as well in the Leopold Museum Vienna.[9] His artworks were auctionated at Dorotheum[10] and Auktionshaus Im Kinsky.[11]

Collections[]

Exhibitions[]

Solo Exhibitions:

  • 2019 "Mein Leben für die Kunst", , Schrems, AT[13]
  • 2016 "Unterwegs ...", Palais Todesco, Vienna/AT
  • 2014 "Memento mori", KunstSalon, Vienna/AT
  • 2011 "", Gars am Kamp/AT
  • 2010 "Intarsien - Eine malerische Rundreise", Palais Palffy, Vienna/AT
  • 2010 "Frühlingskantate", Salon - Galerie Cornelia Mensdorff-Pouilly, Vienna/AT
  • 2010 "Gräff meets OK", , Pöchlarn/AT
  • 2008 "Sunloft Center" und Wyvern Hotel, Punta Gorda, Florida/USA
  • 2008 "Zwischen den Welten", , Vienna/AT
  • 2008 "Zwischen den Welten", Buchpräsentation und Ausstellung, MOYA - Museum of Young Art, Vienna/AT
  • 2007 , Salzburg/AT

Group Exhibitions:

  • 2015: "Matthias Laurenz Gräff und Helmuth Gräff. Zwischen den Welten - Zwischen den Generationen", Galerie Daliko, Krems an der Donau[14]
  • 2011 "The exitement continues - Zeitgenössische Kunst aus der Sammlung Leopold II", Leopold Museum, Vienna/AT[15]
  • 2011 "Gräff trifft Seitz", Exhibition with Friedrich Martin Seitz, The land of Lower Austria-, St. Pölten/AT

Literature[]

  • , Die österreichischen Maler des 20. Jahrhunderts. Ergänzungsband 1, p. 69
  • Helmuth Gräff. Edition Thurnhof, Heft No 5, anlässlich der Personalausstellung in der Horner Galerie Thurnhof, 1990, 20 pages.
  • Helmuth Gräff, Akt - Landschaft - Allegorie. Edition M wie Kunst in der Bibliothek der Provinz. Verlag für Literatur, Kunst und Musikalien, 2005, 102 pages. ISBN 3-85252-645-0
  • Helmuth Gräff, Zwischen den Welten. Dionysisch - Apollinisch - Erde - Wasser - Feuer - Luft. Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz, 2008, 222 pages. ISBN 978-3-85252-908-0

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