BIOGRAPHY
ERHARD STÖBE

1943 Born on July 11 in Vienna

1961-67 Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna

1967 Exhibition Debut ("Junge Generation" Gallery) with print graphics; stylistically comparable to New Figuration trends

1967-68 Sojourn in Italy (Florence); first occupation with acrylic painting, acquaintance with Italian "New Figuration" (Valeria Adami)

1970 Stay in Denmark (Copenhagen), colored-pencil drawings (up to 1973)

1971 Exhibition at the Viennese Secession, for the first time with watercolors, continuing stylistically in New Figuration fashion

1973 First large-format painting in acrylic technique; style change due to continuing concern with painting traditions; voyages to the Middle East; first exhibitions with acrylic paintings; first cityscapes

1978-1988 Instructorship at the Vienna College for Applies Art (with Bazon Brock, Peter Weibl, Bernhard Leitner)

1978-79 Subject: Textures in acrylics and watercolors, largely abstract; large formats recurring as task settings to summarize individual thematic groups

1981-82 The subject "Nude" is elaborated systematically, dedication to "color theories" begins concurrently. Series of photo studies in both fields

1984 "Marsyas" cycle, Greek mythology

1986 Reduction of the palette to four colors (white, black, red, yellow), further elaboration of color theory, especially in abstract paintings, application of the results in illusionist painting (large formats); flag paintings

1988 Greek and biblical mythology as well as cityscapes as mayor topics; first oil painting since academic studies. The "classic" themes and various styles he currently applies in his art will shape and influence his work far beyond the present.

From 88 until 2003 head of the Conservation department
of the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere.

1989 Galerie Lang, Vienna

1992 Künstlerhaus, Klagenfurt

1993 Galerie Peithner- Lichtenfels, Praque

1996 "Die Kraft der Bilder" Berlin

2001 "Austria dipinta", Galleria il Politico, Roma

2003 "La Pittura ritrovata", Palais Porcia, Vienna

2004 "Wie im falschen Film", Galerie Himmelpforte, Vienna

Individual exhibitions in Arhus, Dusseldorf, Prague, Vienna, Innsbruck, Klagenfurt, Rome