Roland Goeschl (Austrian born 1932)

Austrian sculptor and teacher. He attended Giacomo Manzu's Summer Academy at the Internationale Sommerakademie fur Bildende Kunst, Salzburg in 1954, and then went to Vienna, where he studied (from 1956-60) at the Akademie der Bildenden Kunste under Fritz Wotruba. At first he was strongly influenced by his teacher, and although his sculptures were composed from separate individual elements, the overall presence of the figure was clearly visible. In 1962 a scholarship enabled him to spend nine months at the Royal College of Art, London, which brought him into contact with new tendencies and led him to start experimenting with color.  Initially, Goeschl’s sculptures were small bronzes that were based on the human figure and composed of individual volumes. He neglected geometric regularity in favour of a rounded, organic-looking formal vocabulary. From 1963, he created mainly large-format pieces and abstract shapes, experimenting with a large variety of materials and relying on solid colors as a main design element, such as blue and red.

In 1972 he was appointed professor at the Institute of Art and Design at Vienna’s University of Technology

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Since 1962 Goeschl has been  a member of the Vienna Secession