The artist Herbert Friedl died at the age of 75 «DiePresse.com

The Austrian artist Herbert Friedl dies Friday at the age of 75 years. The painter, graphic designer, object designer and space lived and worked in Pregarten in the Mühlviertel and Linz. He designed many sacred halls in Upper Austria, such as the Jägerstätter Stele in the Mariendom of Linz, announced on Monday the Diocese of Linz in a press release

Born in Unterweitersdorf (district of Freistadt) in 1942, it completes a carpentry apprenticeship in Linz. , was a visiting student at the Linz University of Art and Design. Starting in 1978, Friedl worked freelance, with an emphasis on engraving. He was one of the first to specifically deal with the Nazi past. A memorial for the victims of the "Mühlviertler Menschenjagd" on Calvary at Wartberg ob der Aist was unveiled and blessed in November 2015.

View of existential questions

For Bishop Manfred Scheuer, he designed the stick with a crystal of rock in the center, which received this for the inauguration in 2016 of the chapter of the cathedral. "In his artistic language, Herbert Friedl leads with clarity and attention to the fundamental questions of being human and of faith." His view of the existential questions takes shape in his images: "With radicalism and intransigence, but also with caution, he is an artist with horror. of the Nazi regime ", Scheuer congratulated his friend and companion

(APA)