Walter Pichler

With Walter Pichler the art world loses one of its great representatives

Born in South Tyrol, Pichler moved to Austria following options and soon achieved international fame. In his work sculpture, architecture and drawing find a particular synthesis. Already in 1967 he exhibited concepts of utopian architecture together with Hans Hollein at the MOMA in New York. Pichler kept his sculptures almost exclusively for himself and placed them in a special ensemble on his farm in St. Martin in Burgeland (Austria).

Pichler is present in the Museion collections with a series of twelve representative drawings on the „Haus in der Schlucht“ from 1991 – a concept that he realized a few years later in Val d’Ega, South Tyrol, in collaboration with his cousin. In 2011 the Autonomous Province of Bolzano acquired the vast cycle of drawings exhibited at Castel Tirolo, having the artist’s mother as its subject.