Prantl, Karl#
b. Poettsching (Burgenland), Nov. 5, 1923, sculptor. Trained as a painter; self-taught as a sculptor, P. used abstract forms in his work ("Meditationssteine") as early as 1950. 1959 founded the international sculptors' symposium Bildhauersymposion in the quarry at St. Margarethen, Burgenland. Austrian representative at the 1986 Biennale in Venice.
Literature#
K. P. Plastiken 1950-81, exhibition catalogue, Frankfurt am Main 1981; K. P. Steinmeditationen, exhibition catalogue, Hamburg 1983; E. Thoman-Oberhofer and P. Weiermair (eds.), K. P. Steine, 1997.