Elmar Peintner

Elmar Peintner (born October 13, 1954) is an Austrian contemporary artist. Peintner lives and works in Imst, Tyrol Austria.
Early life.
Peintner was born in 1954 in Zams, near Landeck in Tyrol, the second of seven children of Hubert Peintner, a teacher, and Laura Peintner, née Koeck, a tailoress.
From 1954 to 1972, he spent his childhood and youth in Landeck. In 1972, he sat his A-level examinations at Landeck Grammar School.
Higher education.
Between 1972-74, he was a student at the Teacher Training Academy in Zams, qualifying as a primary school teacher.
He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts under Prof. Maximilian Melcher from 1974 - 1979. In 1979, he was awarded a diploma and a Master of Fine Arts.
He was granted a Foreign Scholarship to study in Luxembourg by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Arts.
He was a "guest student" of Prof. Tetsuya Noda at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (GEIDAI), Faculty of Fine Arts in Tokyo, Japan.
Private life.
In 1982, Elmar Peintner moved to Imst, building himself a studio house. Peintner married Maria Foerg, a piano teacher in 1985.
Awards.
Peintner's works are published in a number of catalogues and books and has been awarded many honors and prizes for his art.
Art.
Menschenbilder (senescent children).
Elmar Peintner rose to popularity at the beginning of the 1980s. He was a contemporary artist best known for his “Menschenbilder” (senescent children pictures), usually executed with hard pencils and additional water-colour, the models being from the family circle, the neighbourhood, or local rest homes. In the forefront, as with all his work, is not the naturalistic reproduction of nature, but the attempt to penetrate to the physical and mental structure of man via realism of microstructures.
Visibility, Invisibility, Reality.
In the 90s work Peintner restricts himself to placing totally different objects next to or above, and thus in relation to, each other. The artist does not seek to create a “super – reality” by means of dream and subconscious, but in his pictures he presents poetic enigmas containing questions of reality.
Far from any illusionism, neutrally suspended, what has been experienced and reflected, the real and the imaginary, meet in a tense relationship with each other, in the intention of contributing to the awareness and perception of reality.
Transform.
Now Elmar Peintner presents (Museum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck, 2004) a new series of graphite drawings which deal purely and simply with what nature offers: records of fragments or conglomerates from the patterns in nature, fanned out facet-like and presented in their transparency: ramifications, hollows, dense plasticity, nerve structures. They are not scientific herbaceous exhibits, nor are they a catalogue of floral prints. On the contrary, the subject matter emanates a liveliness of substance with all the phases of growth and decay. Inner issues and energy are released. The various processes in the unyieldingness of the substance are noted. Peintner's position as a re-creator of this nature also comes out. He declares himself in his consistency and his stamping of the graphic production. He reduces his ideal world to the factual in the motif.
Peintner Elmar's art "Children's Feet and Ladders" was selected for 8th Beijing International Art Biennale China 2019.
Exhibitions (2011-2015).
Kurator Günther Dankl (Catalogue)
Sofia, Bulgaria (Catalogue)