Karl Prantl

Karl Prantl studied at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. The recorded working language is German. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are abstract. Work by Karl Prantl is recorded in the collections of Belvedere and Van Abbemuseum. Distinctions recorded are City of Vienna Prize for Fine Arts and Austrian Decoration for Science and Art.

• Name — Karl Prantl • Born — 5 November 1923 • Birthplace — Pöttsching, Austria • Died — 8 October 2010 • Known for — Stone sculpture • Awards — Grand Austrian State Prize, 2008

Prantl was born in Pöttsching in the Austrian state Burgenland. He studied from 1946 to 1952 with the painter Albert Paris Gütersloh at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in Vienna. As the stone sculptor he became he was an autodidact. He was the founder of the International Sculpture Symposium. He held his first international symposium (Symposion Europaischer Bildhauer) with 8 participants in the old quarry Römersteinbruch in Sankt Margarethen im Burgenland. Prantl was invited to exhibit work in the Austrian Pavilion of the Venice Biennale in 1986. Prantl died of a stroke at his home on 8 October 2010, a month before his 87th birthday.

Karl Prantl is recorded with the occupation sculptor. Classed in the genre abstract art. Recorded as having received City of Vienna Prize for Fine Arts and Austrian Decoration for Science and Art.