Richard Hirschbäck (2 July 1937 – 13 July 2007) was an Austrian painter. He was a founding member of the Austrian artist group Gruppe 77.
Life and work Hirschbäck was born on 2 July 1937 in Schwarzach St. Veit. He attended the Benedictine boarding school in the in Salzburg, and later studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Albert Paris Gütersloh.Richard Hirschbäck (1986). Richard Hirschbäck (exhibition catalogue, in German). Munich: GIM Gallery. He was a member of the Austrian artist group until 1977; in that year he was among the twenty-nine founding members of the Gruppe 77 artist group.
Hirschbäck died in , Zell am See, on 13 July 2007. He left thousands of works: drawings in ink and in pencil, paintings in water colours, in tempera and in oils, and mixed media works.
In 1972, Hirschbäck received the art prize of the town of Köflach, followed by a retrospective in the Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz, now the Lentos Museum in Linz.Kasten, Walter. Richard Hirschbaeck: Gemälde - Graphik; Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz Wolfgang-Gurlitt-Museum, 18. Mai bis 11. Juni 1972, Druck- u. Verlagsanst. Gutenberg, 1972
His work is in the collections of the AlbertinaAlbertina Sammlungen Online. Albertina, Wien. Accessed September 2017. and the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere in Vienna,Richard Hirschbäck. Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Wien. Accessed September 2017.ähnliche Objekte Richard Hirschbäck. Artothek des Bundes. Accessed September 2017. and the Lentos Art Museum in Linz.Hirschbaeck Richard, Gewachsene Zentralgestalt. Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz. Accessed September 2017.
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Further reading
Grimmer, Dietgard. Richard Hirschbäck, In Zusammenarbeit mit der Galerie im TRAKLHAUS, Salzburg, 1992 RAURIS 1981, TRAKLHAUS, Arge-Alp-Symposium + Malertage, Salzburg, 1981 Gerhard Haberl, Horst. Richard Hirschbäck, Publikation in Zusammenarbeit mit der Galerie H, Graz, anläßlich der Ausstellungen in der Galerie AM RABENSTEIG, Wien und im TRAKLHAUS, Salzburg, 1975 Hirschbäck, Exhibition catalogue, Künstlerhaus, Salzburg, 1981 Grimmer, Dietgard. Querschnitt, Traklhaus, Salzburg, 1992 Künstlergruppe 77, Graz, Künstlergruppe 77, Graz, 1991 Neuhold, Alois. Hommage a Gerhard Lojen, Minoriten Galerien Graz, Künstlergruppe 77, Graz, 2007 Ungeduldiges Papier, Ausstellung der Künstlergruppe 77 Graz in der Wiener Sezession, Oktober 1984
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