Friedrich Danielis
"Current" archived (a selection)




„Von der Liebe durch die Augen“
(„About love, through the eyes“)

The opening was on Thursday, June 1, Cellist Susan Salm performed.

Works from the past twenty years were shown, including some never before in exhibition.

The exhibition at the GALERIE KALKSBURG in Vienna was open from June 2 until July 20, 2023.

Here the  Invitation as PDF.

GALERIE KALKSBURG
Prof. Rudolf Schneider-Manns Au
Promenadeweg 18
A-1230 Wien




"Reichtum der Stille" Venice 2019

„Sinnbilder aus Farbe und Glück“

From October 19 to November 19, 2022 at the renown WELZ Gallery in Salzburg there was a large exhibition of works painted in the last few years.

More than 50 works from the latest cycles “A Thousand and One Metamorphoses”, “Homecoming Into Exile”, “Building Blocks for Dreams” and “Views from Within” were shown.

The Vernissage was on Tuesday, October 18th.
At the opening texts from Danielis’ oeuvre were read by Helga Illich and Helmut Wiesner.
Cello works of Wolfgang Florey were played by Susan Salm.

Here a link to the Invitation as PDF.


Fotos from the exhibition:











Here a link to fotos from the exhibition as PDF.

GALERIE WELZ
Sigmund-Haffner-Gasse 16
A-5020 Salzburg

Tel: +43 (0)662 84 17 71-0
Mail: office@galerie-welz.at
Web: www.galerie-welz.at





Trust „Freunde Friedrich Danielis“

The purpose of the trust is the comprehensive care and management of the artistic legacy of Friedrich Danielis.

This includes both his literary and his artistic output:
• digital records of his artistic work
• journalistic appreciation (work monograph, exhibition catalogues)  
• Presentation of the work in exhibitions and participation in exhibitions
• scientific research and analysis (master's theses, dissertations, etc.)
• Media presence (website, presence on digital platforms, print media, radio, TV, podcasts, social media, etc.)
• Advice and support for private collectors and public collections of the artist's works
• Advice on art market agendas
• Mediation of works for various grants and their integration into art history (Austria and beyond)
• Recommendation for the sale and/or purchase of the artist’s works based on the overall conceptual supervision of the oeuvre
• Publication of his essays, interviews, lectures, novels, libretti

The purpose of the association is neither a business operation nor one that is aimed at profit.

Board of Directors:
Nadja Pakesch, President
Carl Aigner, Vice President
Anselm Müller, Treasurer
Helmuth Niederle, Board member
Tony Subal, Board member

Advisory Board:
Hannes Berger
Angelica Bäumer
Berthold Ecker
Clemens Frischenschlager
Hedwig Kainberger
Erhard Löcker
Sigrid Löffler
Sabine Solf

Established and registered in Vienna on March 26, 2022, ZVR  1475997879.
With its headquarters in Vienna the association will extend its activities worldwide.

On August 5, 2021 at the Vernissage of the first exhibition in their newly renovated gallery, the Schloss Leopoldskron in Salzburg presented a bi-lingual, luxury edition of my book "Passing Through" ("Bewegte Stille / Passing Through") as an accompaniment to an exhibition of the original photographs taken in 1961.
The exhibition was on view from August 6-October 31, 2021.

The luxury edition @ Artbook Verlag
ISBN 978-3-9504892-6-2

Here a link to the Invitation as PDF.






A large exhibition of my paintings was on view in the Gallery Gut Gasteil near Gloggnitz in Lower Austria until November 1st, 2020.

A catalogue with photographs, comments and interviews was presented at the opening of the show.

In the peaceful ambience of a landscape infused with culture, one could view "Heimkehr in die Fremde" ("Homecoming into Exile”), an egg tempera painting from 2019, "Der Reichtum der Stille” ("The Richness of Silence"), a large pastel from Venice in 2019, and a substantial selection of works from the cycle "Innen Ansichten” ("Views from Within"), an extensive group of gouaches from 2020, all significant markings of my path.





GUT GASTEIL
Charlotte + Johannes Seidl
Gasteil 1, 2640 Prigglitz






"Building Blocks for Dreams" was the title of my exhibition of 70 paintings, which opened on Thursday, May 9, 2019 at the Tony Subal Gallery in Vienna.

On Thursday, June 13th at 7:00 p.m. as part of the exhibition´s closing festivities in the Subal Gallery the first Vienna Reading of my opera libretto "DOPPLER" took place, as performed by Helga Illich and Helmut Wiesner, with musical interludes for cello composed by Wolfgang Florey and played by Susan Salm.

Listeners were able to experience a first reading of this work within the setting of my latest paintings of the past three years.

“That paintings could serve as building blocks for a whole world of imagination, longing and dreams of reason, I wanted to see and show – a world ruled more by one’s own concepts than by the laws of Nature.
I am convinced that not only Doctor Freud would have trusted this building material more than bricks and stones.
It is my wish that these building blocks for dreams do not gain their necessary solidity from their own weight but rather from the warmth and energy within them, and I hope one can see that.”











"Echos Klage – Echo’s Lament"
an artist’s book by Friedrich Danielis

The presentation was on the 25th of October 2018 in the Wiener Secession
Friedrichstrasse 12
A 1010 Wien

Helga Illich read "Echos Klage"

The book: format 34 x 29 cm, 36 pages with a text by Friedrich Danielis in German and English, and 21 facsimiles of gouaches (New York 2017  - 2018), printed by Stefan Fiedler and his Salon Iris in Vienna, with the text set in typography by Stefan Fuhrer.
One of the originals is included in each copy.
Bound in Grünauers Workshop and presented in an acrylic-glass cover and its slipcase designed by Peter Grünauer,   "Echos Klage – Echo’s Lament" is dedicated to his memory.

"Echo’s Lament" as PDF.






The opening of my Exhibition "RIGHT ON THE RIM AND OTHER CYCLES" was on May 18th and lasted untill June 24th 2017.

The show got its name from the programmatic pastel-poliptych "Right on the Rim" and some egg-temperas "Isole delle Delicie" to a triptych from "Pax Veneziana" and thus gives an overview of my work of 30 Years.

There was also a considerable group of drawings, from the "Horizons" (1983) to the "Martini-Blätter" (2017).

As a surprise, the monumental "Großes Glück", a pastel-poliptych from 1990.

Galerie Kalksburg
Promenadeweg 18
A-1230 Vienna
Austria






TRANSPARENT THINGS
Four Pastels, Venice 2016

Just imagine returning from travel caused by curiosity and a sense of estrangement and bringing with you something without weight or volume, transparent, rich and strange, something to treasure, a wonder maybe not of this world but made up of dreams. But real in a sense, and made for your senses. To make up such a - thing (?), more than a fantasy, less than an object, - would be worth my while, in fact, it was. And now these transparent pastels might be seen for what they are: a lasting fancy.

And if this is not enough, treat yourself to Nabokov´s last completed novel, "Transparent Things", lucid and funny to the end.

"Transparent Things" as PDF.






GREEN AT LAST
Gouaches, New York 2016



The colour green, standing in for "Nature" to satisfy a cliché, was naturally suspect to me; for this very reason I used it with care and restraint, not to feed this misunderstanding. In the group of small gouaches "Green At Last" I wanted to use the colour’s very own nature from blue-green to terre verte and olive green, to develop its specific spectrum. It would vibrate and expand in its relationship with its fellow colours, and now here it is. Painted in New York´s luminous winter of 2016 these small horizontal formats invite you to look at colour as an act of will and of love.

"Green at last" as PDF.






My exhibition "A SECOND ACT" was opened November 26th 2015 at the TONY SUBAL GALLERY in Vienna.

The paintings shown are recent works, variations and their theme "A SECOND ACT".

Open with appointment on Thursday 17th, Friday 18th & Saturday 19th December 2015.

"A Second Act" Invitation as PDF.
"A Second Act" Painting as PDF.
"Randerscheinungen/Sideeffects" as PDF.
"Summer´s Awakening" as PDF.
"Mirror Images" as PDF.
"Fotos from the exhibition" as PDF.






The Austrian PEN Club and the Presseclub Concordia celebrated in May 2014 "A FEAST FOR BEAUTY".

It took shape in the form of an exhibition of my recent drawings, including the cycle "Follow these Lines", gouaches, pastels and egg-tempera paintings and were accompanied by lectures - Rainer Bischof, Christoph Lechner and Philo Ikonya -
and the world premiere of two pieces for violoncello solo:
Susan Salm performed
* PAX VENEZIANA RISTABILITA (2013) by Rainer Bischof
and
* VIER INTERMEZZI (2013) by Wolfgang Florey

p.s. if in doubt: Beauty, shameless beauty has been the one guiding passion of my interest in art. Quoting from a catalogue edited by Angelica Baeumer 20 years ago I called it "a precise longing, which can not even be fulfilled by my own art, it much rather drives it on."
Schubert’s song "Die Taubenpost" might explain this very well.

Presse Club Concordia, Concordia Haus, Bankgasse 8, 1010 Wien
www.concordia.at






MIRROR
From May 25 – June 22, 2013
Monotypes by Chakaia Booker, Christopher Cozier, Friedrich Danielis, Kate McCrickard, Ryan & Trevor Oakes and Robyn Penn were shown at David Krut Projects in 526 W. 26th St. # 816 New York, NY






From November 15 – December 8, 2012 the exhibition "Fall´weise" of my newest paintings was shown in the TONY SUBAL GALLERY in Vienna.

On November 21 a concert of Haydn’s string quartets Op. 20 (#2 and #4) was performed by Peter Matzka, Annemarie Ortner, Aurore Cany and Susan Salm.
Erwin Ortner read my text "Fall´weise".

Photos of the exhibition:

























In July 2012 the publishing house Löcker in Vienna published Leichter als Licht (in German), a collection of essays representing an insider´s view of beauty. (ISBN 978-3-85409-622-1)





The artist's book "Ungemeinplätze" was presented on June 6th at the Vienna Secession.

The 9 numbered and signed copies contain 9 gouaches in facsimile, a text "Ungemeinplätze" and 2 original gouaches,

making each volume in itself an original.


The text was read at the presentation by Friedemann Seufferheld.



"Ungemeinplätze" Text as PDF
"Ungemeinplätze" Gouaches as PDF




" ... SO FAR, ... SO GOOD (46 years of painting)"
From March 11th to April 10th 2010 my retrospective was to be seen at the Tony Subal Gallery.
There were concerts with music by Franz Schubert (on March 17th and 24th).
Photographs of the exhibition as PDF



























"6 Monotypes"

Two of the suites of 6 monotypes on Somerset, ca.15" x 11", printed in November by the eminent master printer Phil Sanders at the Blackburn Press of NY, carry a hand-written text by Michael Guttenbrunner, specially translated by me, on the accompanying "ghost".




Mary Ann Caws wrote in the OXFORD MAGAZINE (winter, 2010) in "Note from New York":
"One of my favorite displays this fall was the celebration of artist's books with the infinitely valuable and very limited editions of such careful work.
We paid special attention to the David Krut gallery space, with the work of Friedrich Danielis on show.
His sensitive renderings never fail to astonish - the group gathered at his own presentation of his rare books was large and receptive.
I found his work in collaboration with his poet friends not just perfectly appropriate, but very moving."




The ATENEO VENETO presented from Dec. 15th -18th 2009 all my artists- books. They were beautifully displayed in several vitrines, grouped around the center-piece, Wolfgang Florey's "Augenspiegelblick". The Ateneo's president, Dr. Antonio Alberto Semi, introduced the 18 works in a very peronal way. Riccardo Held, the poet, then bridged language-barriers (only one book is in Italian also) graciously and opened the access to the books' ideas and aesthetics.
After a spirited discussion with the maker (me), the first performance in Italy of Florey's composition "Augenspiegelblick" played by Susan Salm closed this happy-making evening in the composer's presence.




Under the title "I WANT NOTHING FROM ABOVE" Mel contemporary gallery in Vienna showed new pastels, gouaches and drawings from May 7th to June 26th, 2009.

There were
readings (11th and 25th of May),
a concert with music I feel close to (Bischof, Florey and Mozart on May 18th)
and the presentation of my new painter´s book "Working at Krut´s"
with a screening of David Krut´s " First taxi movie" (June 15th),
all at 7 p.m.

"I WANT NOTHING FROM ABOVE
(neither grace nor favours nor bird droppings)" as PDF
a vertical pastel-triptych
3 x 70 x 90cm
Venice 2008




"WORKING AT KRUT" as PDF




Photographs of the exhibition as PDF


















"RIGHT ON THE RIM"

a new pastel-poliptych was the center-piece of my exhibition at Galerie Welz, Salzburg.
It was opened on February 24th 2009, lasted until March 21st and was accompanied by a folder with a programmatic text.

"Right on the Rim" is my largest pastel to date. In 9 parts, 1.40 m x 2.70 m in all, it allows me to explore large ideas not touched since "Das grosse Glück".

Photographs of the work in progress






"Right on the rim" as PDF



Photographs of the exhibition as PDF










A publication "Fehler im System" published July 2008 by Waldstein (ISBN 978-3-8353-0327-0), contains an essay about talent and the lack of it ("Der Mangel an Talent als Wille und Vorstellung") and investigates how C.D. Friedrich and Paul Cezanne dealt with their predicament, leading to some radical observations of the creative process.




The South Africa Project in 2007 went so well that Susan Salm and I returned autumn 2008 (read my Report).
You can read about our trip 2007 in my Report or my programmatic lecture at the Wits School of Arts.




Poliptychon "Connections"

In May 2007 the eight part poliptych, egg-tempera on canvas, has been set in to the wall of an industrial building at Erdberger Laende 40-48 in the 3rd district of Vienna.