Richard Hirschbäck

Richard Hirschbäck (2 July 1937 – 13 July 2007) was an Austrian painter. He was a founding member of the Austrian artist group Gruppe 77.

Life and work

Hirschbäck was born on 2 July 1937 in Schwarzach St. Veit. He attended the Benedictine boarding school in the Edmundsburg [de] in Salzburg, and later studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Albert Paris Gütersloh.^[1] He was a member of the Austrian artist group Sezession Graz [de] until 1977;^[2] in that year he was among the twenty-nine founding members of the Gruppe 77 artist group.^[3]

Hirschbäck died in Thumersbach [de], Zell am See, on 13 July 2007.^{[citation needed]} He left thousands of works: drawings in ink and in pencil, paintings in water colours, in tempera and in oils, and mixed media works.^{[1][failed verification]}

In 1972, Hirschbäck received the art prize of the town of Köflach,^{[citation needed]} followed by a retrospective in the Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz, now the Lentos Museum in Linz.^[4]

His work is in the collections of the Albertina^[5] and the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere in Vienna,^[6][7] and the Lentos Art Museum in Linz.^[8]