Josef Fischnaller

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Josef Fischnaller

Josef Fischnaller, photographer and photo artist, was born in Austria in 1964. Influenced by his father, Josef Fischnaller, a well-known painter from Linz, discovered his interest for art at an early age, especially for painting.

It was only a few years later that Fischnaller discovered the medium of photography for himself. Accompanied by a fascination for photography, Fischnaller decides to train as a photographer in Vienna in 1982, which he completes in 1986. Only one year later he already opened his first own studio in Vienna. Numerous exhibitions follow in Berlin, Vienna, Miami, New York and Moscow. In 2000 he decides to move his center of life from Vienna in Austria to Berlin, where he still lives and works today.

Josef Fischnaller has already received a number of well-known prizes and awards, including the Kappa Korea Award or the EFFIES in gold and silver for Mastercard.

Fascinated by the works of the old masters, especially Caravaggio and Velázquez, Josef Fischnaller begins to stage his works through the medium of photography in such a way that he creates a balance between classical composition and modern staffage.

Not at least the splendid costumes from Renaissance times falsify the faces of today’s well-known personalities such as Andrea Sawatzki or Hannelore Elsner. Even the one or other detail, which does not quite correspond to past times, creates irritation and symbiosis at the same time.

Josef Fischnaller dares to try to translate the classical iconography of portraits and still lifes into today’s time. The notion and desire for the attention to detail, the use of light and shadow, and the exploration of space, and form, as he knew it from Caravaggio and Velàzquez, are thus transformed into the time of the 21st century. One could also say that Josef Fischnaller photographs as the old masters painted. The obvious irritation thus sharpens the viewer’s perception and makes visible.

BIOGRAPHY

1964
Born in Grieskirchen, Austria

1982
Apprenticeship as photographer in Vienna

1987
Foundation of own photo studio in Vienna, Neustiftgasse

1997
Silver Venus Austria for “Libro
CCA Special Award “Most Innovative Work” for Süddeutsche Zeitung
Magazine “Playboys Underwear

1998
Kapa Award Korea for “Playboys Underwear

1999/2000
Effie in gold and silver for “Mastercard

2000
Relocation to Berlin

2005
Eurobest Public Health & Safety Silver for Unicef “More Education for Girls in Islamic Countries

2006
CCA Venus in Gold and Silver
Int. Andy Awards of Montreux Public Interest Cresta Awards (Winner) for Unicef

2007
Founded own photo studio in Berlin

Lives and works as a freelance artist in Berlin.

EXHIBITIONS

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2000s

2022
In Bloom, Gallery Barbara von Stechow, Frankfurt (Group Show)

2020
Apocalypse, Gallery Barbara von Stechow, Frankfurt
Gallery Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin, „Apocalypse“

2019
Cadogan London, „Prächtig“
Bad Gastein Pavillon, „Prächtig“
MIA Milan, „Erotica“ mit Gallery Forni, Bologna

2018
Gallery Friedmann Hahn, „Prächtig“, book presentation
Gallery Barbara von Stechow, „Prächtig“
PopUp Gallery Roschlaub Satelitte Offices Zürich
book presentation „Prächtig“ Stux Gallery NYC
EROTICA, Gallery Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin

 2016
Gallery Hofkabinett, Linz
Brattelboro Museum, „Contemporary Artists vs. The Masters :Hommage,Battle, Recreation“
Kunstkreis Hameln
Gallery Roschlaub, Hamburg

2015
Gallery Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin „Past Present Present Past“

2013
Gallery Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin „Kings, Queens and other Friends“

2011
MunichModern, München
Zeitzeugen, Fotografien in Österreich seit 1945
Gallery Hilger, Wien „Dudes, Hustlers & other Weirdos“

2010
Gallery Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin „Zeit Gewinn“

2007
Gallery Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin „Adam & Eve“

2004
Café Moskau, Berlin „Portraits“

2003
Art Forum, Berlin „Ten Tins“

2002
Steins Diner, Wien „Ten Tins“

1980s & 1990s

1996
Steins Diner, Wien „Playboys Underwear“
Ursulinen Hof, Linz „Siebtelbauern“ Portraits

1988
Steins Diner, Wien „Work“

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022
Gallery Barbara von Stechow, Frankfurt „IN BLOOM“

2020
Gallery Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin

2019
Gallery Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin

2018
Gallery Cadogan London „Springtime“
Nassau County Museum „Fool the Eye“

2017
Galerie Forni, Bologna „Springtime“

2016
Gallery Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin

2015
art Miami
MOP, Museum of Photographie, San Diego
Gallery Stux, New York

2014
art Miami
Gallery Stux, New York