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Hans Staudacher 1923 – 2021
Hans Staudacher was born in 1923 in St. Urban am Ossiacher . An autodidact, he began drawing and painting at a very young age. His early black-and-grey, small-format works were soon replaced by larger, colourful paintings in which the individual symbolic language of Art Informel is already evident. In 1951 he created his first synthetic resin pictures in the Tachisme style. Staudacher travelled several times to Paris, where he engaged intensively with lettrism – the relationship between pictures and words – and the work of George Mathieu. From then on, these influences would inform his entire oeuvre.
Staudacher worked with different techniques in painting, graphic arts, collage and print. Abstract, extremely musical paintings, in which spontaneous gestures play a central role, are typical of his work. He incorporates calligraphic characters, symbols and notes, but also paper and cardboard, in collage style.
Hans Staudacher is now regarded as one of the most significant Austrian representatives of action painting. Lyrical Art Informel combines with abstract Expressionism in his oeuvre to create a unique, very personal style that is unparalleled in Austria.
