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Johann Feilacher

A Talk with Johann Feilacher, Director of the Gugging House of Artists
November 10, 2005

Press release:
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art is hosting a talk by Johann Feilacher, director of the Gugging Haus der Künstler (House of Artists). The talk will be held at Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art at 756 N. Milwaukee Avenue on Thursday, November 10 at 6:00 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public. Street parking is available in the immediate vicinity of the Center.

Located outside Vienna, the Gugging House of Artists was established in 1981 as a separate living and working space for artists who are also patients at the Lower Austrian Psychiatric Hospital. The Gugging artists have since gained worldwide acclaim within the fields of outsider and contemporary art. Their work has been widely exhibited since the 1970s, including tours of Europe, the United States, and Japan. In 1990, they were awarded the Oskar Kokoschka prize for their contributions to contemporary art.

The Gugging has been home to such notable artists as Johann Fischer, Franz Kamlander, Johann Garber, Oswald Tschirtner, Johann Hauser, and August Walla. Attendees to Mr. Feilacher’s talk will have the chance to view works by Fischer, Garber, Tschirtner, and Walla, which are on display as part of Intuit’s current show, Singular Visions: Images of Art Brut from the Anthony J. Petullo Collection .

Johann Feilacher became director of the Gugging in 1986. He is a sculptor known for his distinctive outdoor work in wood. In the USA, he has exhibited work in Socrates Sculpture Park, New York; in the Kouros Galleries Sculpture Center in Ridgefield, Connecticut; and in the Laumeier Sculpture Park in Saint Louis. His work is represented in the USA by Kouros Gallery in New York and in Europe by Galerie Judith Walker in Klagenfurt, Austria.