Gunther Kraus - UNTITLED "PRINTER'S DEDICATION"

Color etching (iron etching) 24 cm (49 x 35 cm the sheet)
on laid paper
Signed and dated 59 in pencil.
With dedication to the printer from 1966
Magnificent print with full rim.
Best condition

Günther Kraus (20 August 1930 in Klagenfurt – 19 February 1988 in Vienna) was an Austrian visual artist.

Kraus studied painting and graphics from 1944 to 1949 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, as well as heraldry, mosaics and sculpture. This was followed by study trips to New York, Philadelphia, Mexico, Tokyo and Paris. Impressed by the lively art scene abroad, Günther Kraus worked at the beginning of the 1950s on the first pop art projects in Austria. With his sensational exhibitions he belongs to the avant-garde of the 1950s and 1960s.
He attracted widespread attention with his design of the parliament in Ankara in 1951. Commissioned works at home and abroad followed.
In the same year he developed a plan for a pedestrian zone in Vienna. In the 1960s the city showed interest in his idea and in 1974 he won the international competition to design the pedestrian zone on Stephansplatz. The plan was not implemented.
At his solo exhibition at the Vienna Secession in 1956, he met his future wife, Margarethe Herzele. Joint projects and exhibitions followed. The artist couple lived mainly in Vienna and Carinthia. Their daughter Titanilla Eisenhart, born in 1961, also became an artist.
Günther Kraus founded an artist group with Margarethe Herzele, Ludwig Merwart, Theo Braun and Peter Baum. Several joint exhibitions followed. With the sculptor Otto Eder he founded the Krastal Sculpture Symposium.
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