Hannes Heinz Goll (August 31, 1934 – January 27, 1999) was an

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

sculptor Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

printmaker Printmaking is the process of creating work of art, artworks by printing, normally on paper, but also on fabric, wood, metal, and other surfaces. "Traditional printmaking" normally covers only the process of creating prints using a hand proce ...

and

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

, who worked predominantly in

Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...

Life and work

Goll was the son of Johanna and Rudolf Goll, an upper-middle-class family with three children from

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.''Heinz Goll - 1934-1999. Sein Leben, sein Werk'', 2001 He was considered an enfant terrible of the Austrian art scene in the 1960s, was co-founder of the "Grüne Galerie" (''green gallery'') in his hometown in 1964, and established the art collective of Mieger in 1970. He also established a rehabilitation workshop for drug addicted adolescents in

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, and treated them with a self-developed

art therapy Art therapy (not to be confused with ''arts therapy'', which includes other creative therapies such as drama therapy and music therapy) is a distinct discipline that incorporates creative methods of expression through visual art media. Art thera ...

, before he moved to

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in the mid 1970s, where he founded a further rehabilitation group. A few years later he moved to Colombia, where he met his future wife, the psychologist Piedad Tamayo in

Sibaté Sibaté () is a municipality and town of Colombia in the Soacha Province, part of the department of Cundinamarca. Sibaté is located on the Bogotá savanna with the urban centre at an altitude of and a distance of from the capital Bogotá. I ...

, and settled down to live. In his works he was inspired by

pre-Columbian In the history of the Americas, the pre-Columbian era spans from the original settlement of North and South America in the Upper Paleolithic period through European colonization, which began with Christopher Columbus's voyage of 1492. Usually, th ...

symbolism and Indigenous arts. In many of his works, especially in his nude madonna works, he combined sacred and erotic items. Other topics of his work include: chained indigenous people, people on the run and politically displaced persons of Colombia. Shortenly before Goll exhibited in his hometown in the end of 1998, physicians diagnosed that he was suffering from

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and

hepatitis C Hepatitis C is an infectious disease caused by the hepatitis C virus (HCV) that primarily affects the liver; it is a type of viral hepatitis. During the initial infection people often have mild or no symptoms. Occasionally a fever, dark urine, a ...

. A few days later he died in the hospital of Sibaté near Bogota, the town where he is buried.

Famous works

* "Wörthersee-Mandl", Klagenfurt, 1962 * "Das letzte Abendmahl" (''The Last Supper''), 1976, 7 bronze plaques * Heinz Pototschnig's ''Nachtkupfer'' (illustration work) * Jesus Christ, plaque in the Christ-König church,

Krumpendorf Krumpendorf am Wörthersee ( sl, Kriva Vrba) is a municipality in Klagenfurt-Land District, in Carinthia, Austria. It is situated on the Wörthersee. Geography Krumpendorf stretches along the northern shore of Wörthersee, Carinthia's largest ...

Exhibitions

* Klagenfurt "Stadthaus" (''town house''), December 1999-January 2000 (posthumous) * "Haus Grünspan", Mühlboden/Feffernitz (

Paternion Paternion ( sl, Špaterjan) is a market town in the district of Villach-Land in the Austrian state of Carinthia. It is located within the Drava valley about in the north-west of the city of Villach. Geography Paternion is subdivided into six Ka ...

), 2009 (posthumous)Vernissage: The Colombian cycle, Heinz Goll
Haus Grünspan

Literature

* Woschitz, Mejía Rivera, Rojas Herazo: ''Heinz Goll - 1934-1999. Sein Leben, sein Werk'', 2001

References

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Goll, Heinz 20th-century Austrian painters Austrian male painters Colombian painters Colombian male painters Austrian sculptors Austrian male sculptors Austrian printmakers Colombian printmakers Artists from Klagenfurt 1934 births 1999 deaths Austrian emigrants to Colombia 20th-century Colombian sculptors 20th-century printmakers 20th-century Austrian male artists