Willy Puchner
Willy Puchner (born 15 March 1952) is an Austrian photographer, artist, painter, and author.
Willy Puchner
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- 15 March 1952
- Birthplace
- Mistelbach, Lower Austria, Austria
- Occupation
- Photographer, artist, painter, and writer
- Nationality
- Austria
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• Born — 15 March 1952 • Birthplace — Mistelbach, Lower Austria, Austria • Occupation — Photographer, artist, painter, and writer • Website — https: www.willypuchner.com
Early life and career
Early life and career
Puchner was born and raised in Mistelbach an der Zaya, Lower Austria, on 15 March 1952. In 1967, he relocated to Vienna to attend photography classes at the Höhere Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt (Higher Federal Institution for Graphic Education and Research). After completing his studies in 1974, Puchner taught photography at HGBLuVA for a short period. Since 1978, Puchner has worked as a freelance photographer and writer based in Vienna. He later pursued studies in various social and life sciences, including philosophy and sociology, and obtained a master's degree in philosophy, though it is unknown from which educational institution. During the 1980s, he delivered numerous lectures on private photography at universities, museums, and galleries. Starting in 1989, Puchner has worked regularly for the Wiener Zeitung, an Austrian newspaper.
Exhibitions
Exhibitions
• 1980: Museum Moderner Kunst (Museum of Modern Art), Vienna and Künstlerhaus (House of Artists), N.Ö. Galerie, Vienna • 1982: Museum des 20. Jahrhundert (Museum of the 20th Century), Vienna • 1984: Österreichisches Fotomuseum (Austrian Museum of Photography), Bad Ischl • 1992: Steirischer Herbst, Graz • 2001: "On the Road at Home" (Auf Reisen zu Hause), gallery Atrium ed Arte, Vienna • 2005: Stopover New York, gallery Atrium ed Arte, Vienna • Further exhibitions in Berlin, Bremen, Kleve, Braunschweig, Klagenfurt, Norfolk, Washington, D.C, Mumbai, Beirut, Tokyo, Osaka, Ōita, Nagoya, and Sapporo
English editions
• Joe & Sally: A Long Way from Home, 1993, • Penguins - Traveling the World, 1999, • A Brief History of the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna, 2008, together with Heinrich Pfusterschmid-Hardtenstein,.[2] • Vienna. Pleasure and Melancholy, 2008, • The ABC of Fabulous Princesses, 2014, • The ABC of Fantastic Princes, 2015,
Photography projects
For one of Puchner's projects, a children's picture book titled, "Penguins – Traveling the World", he traveled with a pair of penguin statues, "Joe and Sally", taking them to tourist sites—including the sea, the desert, New York, Sydney, Paris, Venice, Tokyo, Honolulu, Rome, and Cairo—to photograph them there. Other Puchner projects have centered on portraits of elderly subjects: "Die 90-jährigen" (At the Age of 90), "Dialog mit dem Alter" (Dialogue with the High Age), "Die 100-jährigen" (At the Age of 100), "Lebensgeschichte und Fotografie" (Oral History and Photography), and "Liebe im Alter" (Love at High Age). Overall, Puncher has held over 30 different exhibitions worldwide on the subject of photography, and over 20 different printed projects, including children's picture books and various photo sets, featuring his photography work. The editions for these printed projects are available in English and German.
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Awards
• Theodor Körner Prize for art (1983) • Theodor Körner Prize for social sciences (1988) • Österreichischer Staatspreis für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur for Tagebuch der Natur (2002) • Kinderbuchpreis der Stadt Wien for Tagebuch der Natur (2002) • Kunstmediator (2011) • Österreichischer Staatspreis für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur „Willy Puchners Welt der Farben“ (2012) • Kinder- und Jugendbuchpreis der Stadt Wien (Illustrationspreis) „Willy Puchners Welt der Farben“ (2012)
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- 1.FAZ vom 8. März 2001
- 2.auf Kulturforumberlin.at
- 3.auf IJB.de
- 4.https://www.goethe.de/ins/ge/de/tif/kul/mag/20656007.html
- 5.20171003175045. Archivierte Kopie. 2019-04-23 16:34:24 InternetArchiveBot.
- 6.FAZ vom 16. August 2012, Seite R6
- 7.derStandard.at vom 15. März 2012. Abgerufen am 16. März 2012.
- 8.Deutschlandfunk. Die besten 7 Bücher für junge Leser dradio.de, 6. Oktober 2012
- 9.auf Stift-klosterneuburg.at
- 10.Ausgezeichnete Kinder- und Jugendbücher. 2016-12-20.
- 11.https://www.leserstimmen.at/autorin/willy-puchner
- 12.Staatspreis für Kulturpublizistik geht an Isolde Charim. ORF.at. 2022-03-29.
- 13."Fantastische Welten": Mistelbacher Willy Puchner ausgezeichnet. noen.at. 2022-10-22.
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