"I have been working on three-dimensional drawings since 2000. I have reconstructed objects and entire rooms of our everyday world in my 1:1 scale wire sculptures. But I have also made cult objects and works of art the subject of my work."
Fritz Panzer produces fine handmade wire sculptures that represent everyday objects or everyday spaces on a scale of 1:1. They appear at once delicate and spatial, as if the drawings of his earlier years had detached themselves from the paper and materialized. At the beginning of this development were sculptural works made of cardboard, also reconstructions on a real scale.
lives and works in Vienna
born 1945 in Judenburg, Styria
1960 – 1962 School of Arts and Crafts in Graz
1962 – 1963 School of Arts in Linz
1964 – 1971 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (master classes with Gütersloh, Mikl and Hollegha)
1972 – 1973 Rome Scholarship of the Province of Styria
1977 State scholarship for Painting
1977 Austrian State Scholarship for Painting
1990 Art Promotion Award of the City of Graz
1996 Lessons at the Wredow Drawing School in Brandenburg
1997 Appreciation Award of the Province of Styria
2000 – 2002 Teaching at Technical University Innsbruck
WORKS IN PUBLIC SPACES (selection)
Wire sculpture - spiral staircase - Higher Technical Vocational School Salzburg
Church altar - St. Oswald, Kapfenberg, Styria
Wire sculpture - 14:30 - MAK, Contemporary Art Tower, Arenbergpark, Vienna
Wire sculpture - Baroque chandelier - Staircase of the Old University of Graz
Two seating sculptures - LandArt interventions, Park and Au Schloss Gleinstätten, Styria
Design of freeway noise barriers - Prenning, Styria
Glass windows (together with Gunter Damisch) - Münzgrabenkirche, Graz
Folk altar - St. Oswald, Röthelstein, Styria
Two paintings - "View from the window" and "Landscape" - University of Art, Graz
