Künstler Helmuth Gräff mit Bundesminister Wolfgang Brandstetter

Helmuth Gräff (born 12 April 1958 in

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) is an Austrian painter,

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and

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. Gräffs painterly style is rooted on the one hand in the artistic heritage of

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, and on the other hand he can also be regarded as a precursor or heritage of the Neuen Wilde.

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 Kaiserebersdorf (1818–1883). Gräff was married first to Martina Maria Gach, daughter of the architect Richard Gach. His son

Matthias Laurenz Gräff Matthias Laurenz Gräff (also known as ''Matthias Laurenz Gräff Ilpenstein''; born 19 July 1984) is an Austrian academic painter, private historian, politician, political activist and organizer of the non-partisan platform Dialog im Kamptal f ...

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 Wiener Kunstschule by Fritz Martinz. Between 1979 and 1983 he studied art at the

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of Gustav Hessings and later

Friedensreich Hundertwasser Friedrich Stowasser (15 December 1928 – 19 February 2000), better known by his pseudonym Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser (), was an Austrian visual artist and architect who also worked in the field of environmental protection ...

s masterclass of painting. 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, Palais Todesco and Museum of Young Art as well in the

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Vienna. His artworks were auctionated at

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and Auktionshaus Im Kinsky.

Collections

* Sammlung Dr.

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(

), Vienna/AT * Museum/Sammmlung Heinz Angerlehner, Upper Austria/AT

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions: * 2019 "Mein Leben für die Kunst", Kunstmuseum Waldviertel, Schrems, AT * 2016 "Unterwegs ...", Palais Todesco, Vienna/AT * 2014 "Memento mori", KunstSalon, Vienna/AT * 2011 " La pura women's health resort kamptal", 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", Oskar Kokoschka-Dokumentationszentrum, Pöchlarn/AT * 2008 "Sunloft Center" und Wyvern Hotel, Punta Gorda, Florida/USA * 2008 "Zwischen den Welten", Dommuseum, Vienna/AT * 2008 "Zwischen den Welten", Buchpräsentation und Ausstellung, MOYA - Museum of Young Art, Vienna/AT * 2007 Galerie Weihergut, Salzburg/AT Group Exhibitions: * 2015: "Matthias Laurenz Gräff und Helmuth Gräff. Zwischen den Welten - Zwischen den Generationen", Galerie Daliko, Krems an der Donau * 2011 "The exitement continues - Zeitgenössische Kunst aus der Sammlung Leopold II",

, Vienna/ATPressetext aus dem Leopold Museum. "THE EXCITEMENT CONTINUES. Zeitgenössische Kunst aus der Sammlung Leopold II"
/ref> * 2011 "Gräff trifft Seitz", Exhibition with Friedrich Martin Seitz, The land of Lower Austria- Ausstellungsbrücke, St. Pölten/AT

Literature

* Heinrich Fuchs, 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. * Helmuth Gräff, Zwischen den Welten. Dionysisch - Apollinisch - Erde - Wasser - Feuer - Luft. Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz, 2008, 222 pages.

References

External links

Profile
artfacts.net; accessed 22 September 2015.
Profile
basis-wien.at; accessed 22 September 2015.

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Helmuth Gräff at artnet.com

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