ADOLF FROHNER* (St. Martin bei Lofer 1887 - 1930 Vienna)
Butterfly hunter
artprint/paper, 40 x 30 cm
signed Frohner

ESTIMATE °€ 60 - 100
STARTING PRICE °€ 60

In 1952, Frohner, who had learnt to paint by himself, moved to Vienna and became a guest student of Herbert Boeckl at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. From 1955, Frohner worked as a commercial artist for the Association of the Electrical Industry, and from 1959 as an art critic. With Boeckl's help, he received a scholarship in 1961 that enabled him to study in Paris, where he became acquainted with the Nouveaux Realistes and decided to work as a freelance artist. In 1962, he exhibited at the Galerie Junge Generation in Vienna. As a representative of object and action art, he was involved in the three-day walled-in exhibition together with Hermann Nitsch and Otto Muehl sam Manifesto Die Blutorgel in 1962 and in the emergence of Viennese Actionism. After separating from the Viennese Actionists, he worked in Daniel Spoerri's studio in Paris. He became known to a broad international public as Austria's representative at the São Paulo Biennial in 1969. In 1970, he took part in the Venice Biennale. He later turned to panel painting and graphic art. He later turned to panel painting and graphic art. A recurring motif in Frohner's paintings is violence, often depicted by bound women to whom violence is inflicted. In 1972, Frohner was honoured with the Austrian State Prize and began working as a professor at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. From 1985 to 2005, he taught a masterclass in painting. He was elected Dean in 1987, was Vice-Rector from 1989 to 1991 and Head of the Institute of Fine Arts from 1999 to 2005. Frohner was a member of the Masonic Lodge Zur Bruderkette from 1978 and a founding member of the Voltaire Lodge Zur weißen Kugel in 1997.

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