Hans Bischoffshausen
Feld am See 1927 - 1987 VillachHans Bischoffshausen was born in Feld am See, Carinthia, in 1927. Initially, he studied architecture in Graz, but was led to painting by professor Kurt Weber.
The autodidact’s early work depicts his involvement with Paul Klee, but keeps a strong autonomy. In the late 1950s, two solo exhibitions took place: in the Galleria del Cavallino in Venice and in the Galerie nächst St. Stephan in Vienna. The first Joanneum’s Prize for contemporary painting allowed him to move to Paris. Together with his wife and children, he lived in poverty in an old warehouse.
Bischoffshausen was friends with the Italian painter Lucio Fontana. As a member of the group “ZERO”, he accessed a circle of artists, including Wolfgang Hollegha, Markus Prachensky, Arnulf Rainer and Max Weiler.
The artist conducted studies of the structure in white on white and developed structured reliefs with reduced language of form. He got to the limits of what can be depicted by painting to such an extent, that no one was able to take photographs of his art anymore. Later, he worked with gold and red, but also with the shape of the cross.
The final years of Hans Bischoffshausen were characterized by health problems and increasing isolation of the cultural establishment. He died in Villach in 1987.
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Room 1971 "Apparition" 1964 Room 1971 Untitled 1952/54 Three Paintings, Untitled around 1970 Horizon 1971 Lifelines 1964 "Protuberences" 1965 -
"Chercher la Croix" 1965 "Versuch zu einem Weltklavier" 1972 "Komprimierter Raum" 1963 Untitled Untitled 1978 "Illuminazione della magia" 1958 Untitled 1953 "Der Mann mit dem Schmetterling" 1954 -
Untitled 1953 Untitled 1953 Untitled 1953 Untitled 1953 Untitled 1953 Untitled 1960 "Lumiere sur la Magie" 1960 Untitled around 1961 -
"Fracture de L´Energie" 1961 Tears 1974 "Invasion 1" 1973 To the Cross 1976 "Mutter am Kreuz" 1975 Emancipation of a Woman 1974-1976 "Kreuz" 1960