Wilhelm Drach

Biography

1952
born in Vienna 
1972–1977
Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
 
Lives and works in Mödling / A

Works held by different private and public collectors (Selection)
Ministry of Education, Art and Culture, Vienna
Collection of the State-Museum of Lower Austria
Collection of the City of Vienna
mumok, museum of modern art, Vienna
Collection STRABAG, Vienna
Collection of Lower Austria
Collection Dr. Max Kowatsch
Collection Alison und Peter W. Klein, Eberdingen-Nussdorf / D

 
Exhibitions
Solo and group exhibitions & artfairs  (Selection)
2024
Aktzente, group-exhibition, zs art galerie, Vienna
2023
Luxembourg ArtWeek/The Fair 2023, zs art galerie, Luxembourg / LUX
art KARLSRUHE, zs art galerie / D
2022
Luxembourg Art Week | The Fair, zs art galerie, Luxembourg / LUX
Collage II; group-exhibition, zs art galerie, Vienna
2021
Luxembourg Art Week | The Fair, zs art galerie, Luxembourg / LUX 
2020
Figural; group-exhibition; zs art galerie, Vienna
zselection; group-exhibition; zs art galerie, Vienna
2019
Luxembourg Art Week | The Fair, zs art galerie, Luxembourg / LUX 
The Landscape Principle; group-exhibition, zs art galerie, Vienna
Art Karlsruhe, Galerie Bommer, Karlsruhe / D
Head-Variations; group-exhibition, zs art galerie, Vienna
2018
Summer-Exhibition; group-exhibition, Galerie Bommer, Zurich / CH
2017
informelle Malerei; group-exhbition, Carzaniga-Galerie, Basel (CH)
zwischen gegenständlich und abstrakt; Solo-Exhibition with Karl Kriebel, zs art galerie, Vienna
2016
Art.Fair Köln, zs art galerie, Cologne / D
30x30x30, group-exhibition, zs art galerie, Vienna 
2015
Formulierung durch Farbe; Solo-Exhibition with Filippo Borella, zs art galerie, Vienna 
2014
5 years zs art galerie; group-exhibition, zs art galerie, Vienna
2013
Art Austria, Leopold Museum, Vienna 
Emil Toman – Maler, Mentor, Wegbereiter; group-exhibition, zs art galerie, Vienna
2012
ENDlich; Solo-Exhibition with Gunda Timmel-Reitter, zs art galerie, Vienna
Kunst 12 Zürich / International Contemporary Art Fair / CH
2001
Bildserien 2000 - 2001; Galerie Gabriel, Solo-Exhbition, Vienna
2001
Ditpychen; Galerie Gabriel, Solo-Exhbition, Vienna
1997
Galerie Kaufmann, Solo-Exhibition, Innsbruck / A
1995
Galerie der Marktgemeinde St. Johann/Tirol, Solo-Exhbition, St.Johann/Tirol / A 
1991
Art LA 91, Los Angeles, USA 
Lineart, Artfair, Gent, Belgium / B
Galerie Gabriel, Solo-Exhbition, Vienna
1990
Art LA 90, Los Angeles, USA
Galerie Bommer, Solo-Exhibition, Zug und Zürich / CH
1989
Art Basel 20, Basel / CH
1988
Art Basel 19, Basel
1987
Søllerød Kunstforening, Solo-Exhibition (with Roger Gressl) / DK
Galerie Gabriel, Solo-Exhibion, Vienna
Art Basel 18, Basel / CH
1986
Art Basel 17, Basel / CH
1985
Art Basel 16, Basel / CH
1984
Galerie Gabriel, Solo-Exhibition, Vienna
1975
Galerie Arcade, Solo-Exhibition, Mödling, NÖ / A
Galerie Romanum, Solo-Exhibition, Perchtoldsdorf / A
1973
Kleine Galerie, Solo-Exhibition Schönau / A
1972
Galerie Drugstore, Solo-Exhibition, Mödling / A 
Bibliography

Wilhelm Drach is withdrawing from art market again and again to improve his artistry without pressure, to meliorate his sensibility.

Wilhelm Drach paints his own perception of the animate world, wheather he paints heads or landscapes. Emanating from the real impression out of nature the artist formulates his deconstructive abstractions. In principle his heads are nothing other than facial landscapes, topological characters. Drach paints in a slow and gentle way. Many layerings which overlay each other impart permeability to the pastose, intuitive chromaticity. His timeless abstract paintings arouse the atmosphere of landscapes within we are invited to enjoy our personal gardens, fields and forests.