Modern Art - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1995 - 6 Shilling

The motif of this brand in the series "Modern Art in Austria" comes from the artist Adolf Frohner. Frohner, born on March 12, 1934 in Lower Austria, graduated from the Gymnasium of the Cistercian Abbey Zwettl, moved to Vienna in 1952 to deal here from 1954 as a guest student at the Academy of Fine Arts with the problems of contemporary art. His independent artistic development began in the early sixties when he turned to Actionism. In 1962 he had himself built in a spectacular action with Otto Mühl and Hermann Nitsch for three days. A profound turn began in 1966, when he realized that the painterly effort to the figure, the image of man, the greatest significance allows. It was this that led him to approach purely humane topics, tasks that were well received by art lovers and the public. In 1975 he became a professor at the College of Applied Arts and in 1985 he took over the master class for painting.