- ADOLF FROHNER ARTWORKS

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Adolf Frohner was a Austrian painter, engraver and sculptor  among the founders together with Otto Muehl It is Herman Nitsch of theViennese actionism.

He was born in Großinzersdorf in 1924. In 1952 he moved to Vienna where he began to paint as a self-taught and followed the courses of the Academy of Fine Arts as a guest student under the guidance of Herbert Boeckl.

In 1961, with the help of Boeckl, Adolf Frohner obtained a scholarship which allowed him to study for a year in Paris. In the ville lumière he met and frequented i New Realists while the following year, together with colleagues Hermann Nitsch and Otto Muehl, he put on a rather controversial performance The Blood Organ which sanctions the birth of Viennese actionism. Following the dissolution of the artistic group, the painter began working in the studio of Daniel Spoerri.

In 1969 he took part in the San Paolo Biennial and the following year in the Venice Biennial. In this period he mainly made paintings on wood and engravings whose subjects are often represented by women who suffer violence.

In 1972, he began a parallel academic career at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.

Adolf Frohner died in Vienna in 2017.