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OTHMAR JAINDL* (St. Veit an der Glan 1911 - 1982 St. Veit an der Glan)
Wooden sculpture
wood, painted, 64,5 x 16 x 8 cm

ESTIMATE °€ 600 - 1200
STARTING PRICE °€ 600

The Austrian artist Othmar Jaindl attended the Federal College for Construction and Applied Arts in woodworking in Villach until 1928. In 1929, he was an assistant to the sculptor Max Domenig in Hallein. From 1929 to 1932, he studied at the Vienna School of Applied Arts under Anton Hanak and from 1932 to 1939 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Anton Hanak and Albert Bechtold. From 1940 to 1945 he did military service. From 1946 he worked as a freelance artist in his parents' home in St. Ruprecht in Villach. In 1950 he built his own studio house in St. Andrä in Villach. Jaindl is described as a non-conformist outsider, as someone who devoted himself exclusively to his art and yet was never able to gain a foothold in the art scene. During the Second World War, during which Jaindl spent a few years in Norway and Finland, the vast forests inspired him so much that from 1945 onwards wood became his sole working material. Over the next 15 years, archaic figures and heads were created. Jaindl was an enthusiastic mountaineer and mineral collector and loved to conquer the vastness of Lake Ossiach in winter by ice skating. He didn't own a car, but was a keen cyclist. “The crucial thing is coming into being, because the finished form is the beginning of decay.” This is how he explained, looking at the logs that he had struggled to select in the mountains and then acquired with awe and understanding of nature. Two sculptures by the artist, who was often plagued by existential hardships and who developed a diverse yet self-contained body of work, can be found in public places in his area of ​​activity in Villach and the surrounding area: in front of Ossiach Abbey, where a nine-meter-high oak stele stands, and in Paternion, where Jaindl created a monument made of Krastal marble.

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