Manfred Egger

born in 1960
studies at Innsbruck University 1978 - 85
woodprinter

I have ben doing woodprints for many many years.
However about 4 - 5 years ago I gave up producing editions as I thought this could no longer be the main purpose of wood printing - just thinking of the opportunities digital reproduction can offer.
Instead I produce series of prints, all of them printed with a given set of blocks; these I then would change, re-work, turn them upside down, etc., so that in the end I have a number of 20 - 25 prints, all of them being similar, showing different views of the same phenomenon, but never identical.

Curriculum vitae - Manfred Egger:


Short biography:
1960 born in Hall in Tirol/ Austria
1978 High School Diploma (Matura)
1978 85 Studies in English and German Language and Literature, History of Art at
Innsbruck University
1981/82 stay in Great Britain (at the same time intensive study of Japanese woodblock
printing)
since 1985 teaching at various schools, for the time being at Meinhardinum Stams


Exhibitions of the last few years (excerpt):

1998 Galerie Schafferer, Innsbruck

1999 Cultural Centre Gssing, Burgenland

2000 Galerie Schafferer, Innsbruck
Psychiatric Hospital, Hall

2001 Hasegg Castle, Hall

2002 Galerie Kass, Innsbruck
Sculpture garden of Galerie Kass, Innsbruck
Sculpture exhibition in the baroque gardens of Stams Monastery
Galerie Schafferer, Innsbruck

2003 KunstWerkRaum, Mesnerhaus Mieming

2004 Galerie Thuillier, Paris
Galeria Art Point Black, Florence, Italy
Centro San Vidal, Venice / Italy

2005 Town Museum Reutlingen, Germany, Gewerbemuseum Winterthur, Switzerland,
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