Richard Hirschbäck (2 July 1937 – 13 July 2007) was an

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n painter. He was a founding member of the Austrian artist group Gruppe 77.

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Hirschbäck was born on 2 July 1937 in Schwarzach St. Veit. He attended the Benedictine boarding school in the in

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, and later studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Albert Paris Gütersloh.Richard Hirschbäck (1986). ''Richard Hirschbäck'' (exhibition catalogue, in German). Munich: GIM Gallery. He was a member of the Austrian artist group until 1977; in that year he was among the twenty-nine founding members of the Gruppe 77 artist group. Hirschbäck died in ,

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, on 13 July 2007. He left thousands of works: drawings in ink and in pencil, paintings in water colours, in

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and in

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, and

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works. In 1972, Hirschbäck received the art prize of the town of

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, followed by a retrospective in the Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz, now the Lentos Museum in Linz. His work is in the collections of the

Albertina The Albertina is a museum in the Innere Stadt (First District) of Vienna, Austria. It houses one of the largest and most important print rooms in the world with approximately 65,000 drawings and approximately 1 million old master prints, as well ...

Albertina Sammlungen Online
Albertina, Wien. Accessed September 2017. and the

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in Vienna, and the Lentos Art Museum in

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.Hirschbaeck Richard, Gewachsene Zentralgestalt
Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz. Accessed September 2017.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hirschback, Richard 2007 deaths 1937 births Austrian artists Academy of Fine Arts Vienna alumni

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