The first images that Mosbacher, who comes from a Styrian mountain farm, encountered as a child were the frescoes in the church. "I immediately felt: the world of pictures is mine. It was a magic," he says. Today, Mosbacher enchants viewers with his pictorial worlds. Together with Schmalix, Siegfried Anzinger, Alfred Klinkan, with whom he shared studios in the 1970s, he belongs to the generation of the "Junge Wilden", the representatives of the "New Painting" in Austria.
In the following decades he developed his own artistic language. He brings the seemingly unspectacular into focus and gives autonomy to the everyday. His paintings are full of mystery, precisely because they show ordinary objects, but in unusual constellations. Things that meet by chance pose riddles, Mosbacher puts together what at first glance has nothing to do with each other: ropes, a ladder, light bulbs, cables, wires, cacti, a swarm of bees find each other. And again and again trees, his very own, unmistakable pars pro toto for landscapes. Subtle cutouts, details from corridor and forest landscapes, occasionally supplemented by objects such as a tent, an abandoned hut, a pair of sneakers. His tree trunks support and protect each other. Nature occupies him a great deal. Also in his current series of large-scale flower paintings. Dogs, sheep, birds he presents in independent portraits. Mosbacher thereby reduces the representational to the essential.
1973 - 1978 Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Numerous awards such as Art Prize of the Province of Styria, Art Prize of the City of Vienna, Georg Eisler Prize, Cultural Prize of Lower Austria for Fine Arts, Austrian Art Prize for Fine Arts. Exhibitions at home and abroad.
Fotocredit: © Alois Mosbacher
ON VIEW: Belvedere 21 - Alois Mosbacher palinops - from March 10 - Sept. 9, 2023
