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Gunter Damisch BIOGRAPHY
1958 Steyr, Austria - 2016 Wien, Austria. Known for: Modernist painting and sculpture, musician.
Gunter Damisch attended the Music Gymnasium Linz and then spent several semesters studying medicine and German studies and history. After a visit to the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts... Read full biography
Gunter Damisch attended the Music Gymnasium Linz and then spent several semesters studying medicine and German studies and history. After a visit to the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts Salzburg with Claus Pack, he studied from 1978 to 1983 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with... Read full biography
Gunter Damisch attended the Music Gymnasium Linz and then spent several semesters studying medicine and German studies and history. After a visit to the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts Salzburg with Claus Pack, he studied from 1978 to 1983 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with Maximilian Melcher and Arnulf Rainer. In 1992 he took on a visiting professorship at the Vienna Academy (Master Class in Graphic Design) in Vienna, where he was Full Professor since 1998. In the 1980s... Read full biography
Gunter Damisch attended the Music Gymnasium Linz and then spent several semesters studying medicine and German studies and history. After a visit to the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts Salzburg with Claus Pack, he studied from 1978 to 1983 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with Maximilian Melcher and Arnulf Rainer. In 1992 he took on a visiting professorship at the Vienna Academy (Master Class in Graphic Design) in Vienna, where he was Full Professor since 1998. In the 1980s Damisch was a member of the Viennese punk band Molto gross, where he played bass and organ. Gunter Damisch lived and worked in Vienna and Freidegg. He was "due to its distinctive, convincing and consistently formulated repertoire of colors and forms of... Read full biography
Gunter Damisch attended the Music Gymnasium Linz and then spent several semesters studying medicine and German studies and history. After a visit to the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts Salzburg with Claus Pack, he studied from 1978 to 1983 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with Maximilian Melcher and Arnulf Rainer. In 1992 he took on a visiting professorship at the Vienna Academy (Master Class in Graphic Design) in Vienna, where he was Full Professor since 1998. In the 1980s Damisch was a member of the Viennese punk band Molto gross, where he played bass and organ. Gunter Damisch lived and worked in Vienna and Freidegg. He was "due to its distinctive, convincing and consistently formulated repertoire of colors and forms of the internationally most important representatives of Austrian contemporary art.". In April 2016 he succumbed to cancer and was b... Read full biography
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Gunter Damisch attended the Music Gymnasium Linz and then spent several semesters studying medicine and German studies and history. After a visit to the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts Salzburg with Claus Pack, he studied from 1978 to 1983 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with Maximilian Melcher and Arnulf Rainer.
In 1992 he took on a visiting professorship at the Vienna Academy (Master Class in Graphic Design) in Vienna, where he was Full Professor since 1998.
In the 1980s Damisch was a member of the Viennese punk band Molto gross, where he played bass and organ.
Gunter Damisch lived and worked in Vienna and Freidegg. He was "due to its distinctive, convincing and consistently formulated repertoire of color...But wait, there's more...
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