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Artist Statement:
For me, doing art is a
meditation and an affirmation
of life, that lifts me above
the problems of everyday. My
passion for colors let me take
the artist-name "Chromosoph"
(greek for "Color-Lover" or
"Color-Thinker") I started as
a realistic painter. Now I'm a
figurative painter but I love
the infinite freedom of
abstractions... so most of my
art is "figurative
abstraction"
My artistic influences are
based in the art of the early
impressionists, the "School of
Barbazon". Like the work of
those artists, I explore the
space between realistic and
abstract art - in a rich and
diverse stylistic texture.
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Artist Exhibitions:
GE = group exhibition
SE = solo exhibition
2010:
(GE) January 1st - 23rd:
"EcoArt", Galeria Maud, Rome,
Italy
(GE) January 2nd - 31st:
Art Inter/National Award
Exhibition, Boxheart Gallery,
Pittsburgh, USA
(GE) February 6th - 25th:
"Putting-It-All-Together"
Climate-Gallery, New York
(SE) May 1st - October
26th: "Retrospective", Galerie
im Turm, ...
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Josef Jobst Biography:
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Age
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62
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| Gender |
Male
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| Status |
Married
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| Children |
2
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| Religion |
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| Education |
Post Graduate Degree |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Painting Oil
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Barbizon School - (1830 - 1870)
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
vanEyck
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| Favorite Work of Art |
not provided
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
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| Your Personal Biography |
Born 1949 in Rubring, Lower Austria (the Soviet-occupied Zone 1945-55). Primary- and secondary school in the small rural town of St.Valentin, where his teachers noticed his talents for doing art. He won the national art students painting prize from 1961 till 1963. He studied at the technical college and became an architect, using his drawing talents for designing of structures and buildings. But beside of his day-job he studied wood-engraving and etching by Prof.Balczarek, and stage-design by Jean Philipp. 1968 he attended the artistsgroup 'IDEE' lead by famous author Fritz Woess.
Marriage, birth of first son, built a house ... the very standard career of common bourgeois. But he never forgot his call for the fine arts, and on his business trips he made about 300 sketches and drawings and 200 watercolors of landscapes, nature and ancient buildings.
Till the caesura 1993: first heart attack, surgery (four cardiac bypasses); during his stay at the recreational clinic he attended a therapy by painting and after the second session he decided to start his second career as an artist.
But again he was fated to change his aim of life in 1995 when thyroid cancer was found!
His health record from 1993 to 2007 (in extracts!):
– 27 surgeries
– 3 heart attacks
– 2 cancer
– 1 stroke
– 73 stays in hospitals
– now his heart has a remaining power of 43 percent, he got a heart-pacemaker and a defibrillator implanted....
nevertheless he worked in his studio all those days when he was not in a hospital, and found his new maxim:
„Because I'm painting, I'm still alive.“
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