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Helmut Leherb (14 March 1933 – 28 June 1997) was an Austrian artist and representative of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism, which is close to Surrealism. He was born Helmut Leherbauer in Vienna and is also known as Maître Leherb.
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Helmut Leherb (14 March 1933 – 28 June 1997) was an Austrian artist and representative of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism, which is close to Surrealism. He was born Helmut Leherbauer in Vienna and is also known as Maître Leherb.
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Career He was the son of a school headmaster who died in 1945 after the liberation of Austria as a result of National Socialist imprisonment. Helmut Leherbauer graduated from the Hernalser Gymnasium Geblergasse in Vienna in 1951 and studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the Stockholm Royal Academy (Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts) from 1948 to 1954. In 1955 he moved back to Vienna to the Academy of Fine Arts in the class of Albert Paris Gütersloh, where he witnessed the direct confrontation with Surrealism. Gütersloh co-founded the Art Club and is considered the founder of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism. Leherb thus found access to this circle of artists and organised various exhibitions together with other representatives of this art movement, for example with Anton Lehmden, Rudolf Hausner and Wolfgang Hutter. In 1959 their works were shown at the Upper Belvedere. At that time, the art critic Johann Muschik coined the name of Fantastic Realism, which is still valid today. From 1959 to 1963, works of art were created in Viennese parks that still exist today: Vienna Prater: the ceramic relief painting Tschinellen-Fiffy (near the Ferris Wheel) [1] and the Sonntagsgwand (facing the Prater…
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The Biennale Scandal In 1964, Leherb was nominated for the Venice Biennale with his Time Destruction Manifesto, but his participation was prevented by the new Minister of Education Theodor Piffl-Perčević (ÖVP) after a government reshuffle. The plan was to have a deep blue pavilion with dead pigeons, umbrellas and dolls stuck to the walls. An art scandal was looming, and the leading art journal in Paris "Arts et Loisirs" ran the headline "First scandal of the Venice Biennale! The German magazine "Stern" put the scandal on the front page: "Surrealist Leherb: no white mice for Venice" and was not sparing with outbursts against the "cultural country" Austria. Walter Koschatzky described Piffl-Perčević's understanding of art in his memoirs as "frighteningly low". The deselection troubled Leherb but boosted his profile enormously and opened the doors to the most important galleries in Europe: Galerie de la Madeleine and Isy Brachot in Brussels, Galerie C.A.W. in Antwerp, la Medusa in Rome; Galerie Mokum in Amsterdam, Peithner-Lichtenfels and Wolfrum in Vienna and Galleria Viotti in Turin. Leherb, fascinated by painterly valeur, the watercolour-like sfumato, and continued to realise ceramic reliefs and mosaics. In 1963, he created the "Reactionary Confirmation Dream" in the Villa Cabasso in…
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Advertising Austria and the Olympics In 1971 / 1972, Leherb was commissioned by the later "Österreich Werbung" (Austrian National Tourist Office "ANTO") (then still Österreichische Fremdenverkehrswerbung, ÖFVW) to design four posters. The posters "I like Mozart", "A girl playing her cello on a cloud", "Island of Longing" and "A lady with a Lipizzaner" were created. The then chairman of the ÖFVW, Trade Minister Josef Staribacher, staged the launch of the new series with publicity: he set the printing press in motion himself. The posters were quickly sold out. A possible new edition is being planned. In 1976, the design of the poster for the Winter Olympics in Innsbruck followed: a Greek head, which Leherb provided with a modern crash helmet, glasses and, as a reminder of the limits of competitive sport, a time clock. This representation was embedded in the Leherb blue. This poster is also long out of print. This was followed by a faience painting more than seventeen metres long and five and a half metres high for the rehabilitation centre at the "Weißer Hof" in Klosterneuburg.
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Italy and his most monumental work In Faenza, Italy, in the early 1980s, Leherb created the "largest faience ever made", a 380-square-metre mosaic for the new building of the Vienna University of Economics and Business, which was opened in 1982, "The Continents", during which he suffered severe health damage from the ceramic dust. In twelve years of work, an imaginary portrait of the continents Asia, Europe, America, Africa, Antarctica and Australia was created with more than 3500 small ceramic plates. Leherb himself said: "No workshop, no expert, no ceramist in the European ceramic centres considered the realisation of eight by eight metre majolica paintings technically feasible in 1980: it has never been done, it will never be done, and a Leherb will not succeed in doing such a thing. Leherb on the technique: "One works on brittle, fragile clay plates that are coated with majolica dust, the so-called 'smalt', a glaze consisting mainly of metal oxides mixed with water. This painting ground is unstable and can be destroyed by any improper touch. Thus, a one-metre-high floor vase is considered a masterly feat. For eight by eight metre majolica panel paintings - the dimension corresponds to a two-storey house façade -…
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Awards Honorary member of the Academia Fiorentina delle Belli Arti e Disegno, since 1967 Grand Prize of the Fondation Internationale des Collectionneurs d'Art, Paris 1968 Gold Medal of the Biennale Internazionale della Grafica, Florence 1969 Lauréat du Livre d'Or des Valeurs Humaines, Paris 1970 Ambrogino d'Oro del Senato d'Arte; Milan 1972 Elefante d'Oro e gran Premio; Rome-Catania 1972 Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art I. Class, Vienna 1974 Cavaliere Ufficiale nell'Ordine al merito dell'Republica Italiana, Rome 1990 Tribun del Tribunato di Romagna, Ravenna 1992 Golden Badge of Honour "pro meroti" on the ribbon of the Board of Trustees of the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna 1992
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Déjeuner chez Leherb Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Zeit (In search of lost time)
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Verlust der Zärtlichkeit (Loss of tenderness) Akt als Sesselrücklehne (Nude as chair backrest)
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Taubenpapst Dame mit Melone (Lady with a bowler hat)
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Surrealistischer Stierkampf (Surrealistic Bullfight) Wiener Melange oder Blue Lady (Viennese Coffee Melange or Blue Lady)
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Autodafé of a Surrealist Lotte & Leherb: Irre gut, Philips 6322011, together with Lotte Profohs, arr. & cond. Toni Stricker, 1974
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Literature Czeike, Felix (2004). Historisches Lexikon Wien : in 6 Bänden. 6, Ergänzungsband. Wien: Kremayr & Scheriau. pp. 116–117. ISBN 3-218-00741-0. OCLC 634715731. Leherb, Helmut (1975). Leherb sieht Paris. Wien: Kremayr & Scheriau. ISBN 3-218-00273-7. OCLC 2333229. Dechant, Robert E. (2007). Goldscheider : Firmengeschichte und Werkverzeichnis ; Historismus, Jugendstil, Art Deco, 1950er Jahre = History of the company and catalogue of works : Historicism, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, the fifties. Filipp Goldscheider. Stuttgart: Arnoldsche. ISBN 978-3-89790-216-9. OCLC 191031844. Arcade Paris Bruxelles (Hg.): Leherb. Le Monde d´un Surrealiste. The World of a surrealist. Die Welt eines Surrealisten. Il mondo di un surrealista. Paris, Brüssel 1973 Lotte Profohs, Hans Otto Ressler: Tagträumer und Nachtwandlerin, Wien 2016 (Biographie aus der Sicht von Lotte Profohs)