!!!Weiler, Max

Weiler, Max, b. Absam (Tyrol), Aug. 27, 1910, 
d. Vienna, Jan. 29, 2001, painter and graphic artist. 1964-1980 
thought at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, 1960 Austrian 
representative at the Biennale in Venice, from 1967 in the Austrian 
Arts Senate. Tries to capture the "inner life" of nature and landscape 
in abstract forms. Has created panel paintings, water paintings, 
drawings and graphic reproductions, and since 1946 significant 
sequences of frescoes (at first controversial) e.g. in Innsbruck 
(St. Theresa Church on the Hungerburg plateau, Central Railway 
Station, Stadtsaal multi-purpose centre) and in Linz (Friedenskirche 
Church in Urfahr), as well as mosaics, glass paintings and ceramic 
murals in public places. 1960 Grand Austrian State Prize, Austrian 
Award for Science and Art in 1979.

!Literature
W. Skreiner, M. W., 1975; O. Breicha (ed.), W., die 
innere Figur, 1989; K. Hauser, M. W., Portraits 1933-1990, 1990; 
W. Innenschau, exhibition catalogue, Innsbruck 1992; M. W. Bilder 
von 1985-1991, exhibition catalogue, Vienna 1994; W. Schmied, 
M. W., 1998; E. Koeb (ed.), M. W. Im Jahrhundert der 
Moderne. Malerei seit 1927, exhibition catalogue, Vienna 1999.



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