!!!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.


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