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Otto Zitko
Otto Zitko (born in Linz on 14 February 1959) is an Austrian artist who lives and works in Vienna. Exhibitions (Selection since 2000) * 2010 ''Me, Myself and I – Otto Zitko and Louise Bourgeois'', Arnolfini, Bristol ::''getting hot'', Krobath, Berlin * 2009 ''Die Kunst ist super!'', Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin * 2008 espacio marte, México City * 2007 Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Innsbruck ::''Magic Line'', MUSEION – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano ::Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig (GfZK) * 2006 Galería Heinrich Ehrhardt, Madrid (with Herbert Brandl) ::Galerie Krobath Wimmer, Vienna ::''Soleil Noir. Depression and Society'', Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg ::Bunkier Sztuki, Contemporary Art Gallery, Krakow * 2005 Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki ::''China retour'', MUMOK, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna * 2004 Austrian Cultural Forum Prague ::The Moravian Gallery Brno (with Josef Dabernig) * 2003 C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linz
Linz ( , ; cs, Linec) is the capital of Upper Austria and third-largest city in Austria. In the north of the country, it is on the Danube south of the Czech border. In 2018, the population was 204,846. In 2009, it was a European Capital of Culture. Geography Linz is in the centre of Europe, lying on the Paris–Budapest west–east axis and the Malmö– Trieste north–south axis. The Danube is the main tourism and transport connection that runs through the city. Approximately 29.27% of the city's wide area is grassland. A further 17.95% are covered with forest. All the rest areas fall on water (6.39%), traffic areas and land. Districts Since January 2014 the city has been divided into 16 statistical districts: Before 2014 Linz was divided into nine districts and 36 statistical quarters. They were: #Ebelsberg #Innenstadt: Altstadtviertel, Rathausviertel, Kaplanhofviertel, Neustadtviertel, Volksgartenviertel, Römerberg-Margarethen #Kleinmünchen: Kleinmünchen, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vienna
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Galerie Für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig
The Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig (GfZK) (English: Gallery for Contemporary Art) is an exhibition center for contemporary art and a museum for art post 1945 in Leipzig, Germany, in a beautiful location opposite Johannapark. History The ''Friends of the GfZK'' is a group founded at the end of 1990 on the initiative of the Leipzig art historian Klaus Werner with the support of the German Business Cultural Group in the Federation of German Industries (BDI) and has set itself the goal of promoting national and international contemporary art. Initially, from 1991 onwards, exhibitions were held in other people's premises. The gallery received its own exhibition space in 1998. On May 16 of that year, the gallery opened its own building in the neighborhood ''Musikviertel'' of Leipzig-Mitte, not far from the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig (HGB) (English: Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig). The exhibition rooms are located in the former Herfurth villa of the news ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artists From Linz
An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, the term is also often used in the entertainment business, especially in a business context, for musicians and other performers (although less often for actors). "Artiste" (French for artist) is a variant used in English in this context, but this use has become rare. Use of the term "artist" to describe writers is valid, but less common, and mostly restricted to contexts like used in criticism. Dictionary definitions The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' defines the older broad meanings of the term "artist": * A learned person or Master of Arts. * One who pursues a practical science, traditionally medicine, astrology, alchemy, chemistry. * A follower of a pursuit in which skill comes by study or practice. * A follower of a manual art, such as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1959 Births
Events January * January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of Earth's Moon, and was also the first spacecraft to be placed in heliocentric orbit. * January 3 ** The three southernmost atolls of the Maldive Islands, Maldive archipelago (Addu Atoll, Huvadhu Atoll and Fuvahmulah island) United Suvadive Republic, declare independence. ** Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state. * January 4 ** In Cuba, rebel troops led by Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos enter the city of Havana. ** Léopoldville riots: At least 49 people are killed during clashes between the police and participants of a meeting of the ABAKO Party in Kinshasa, Léopoldville in the Belgian Congo. * January 6 ** Fidel Castro arrives in Havana. ** The International Maritime Organization is inaugurated. * January 7 – The United States reco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
