I was a New Year’s baby in 1949.
The parents were overjoyed.
It was a boy.
I probably came into the world
with a pencil in my hand.
I like to tell stories in simple strokes and full of honest effort....
...not only about me...
…but about plenty of other things too. About everything under the sun, about guys who won´t influence the course of the world in a big way, but who can still rock the boat.
These guys.
I made this drawing at the tender age of 4. It shows my parents (father: left, mother: right). My parents were very proud of me. Since then, I have enjoyed the status of a child prodigy, which I haven’t lost to this day.
Skip a few more years and you will find me here as a studiosus in my first year at high school, in full possession of a brand new boy’s bicycle… painted red.
In 1960 I started with competitive sports. My special discipline was leapfrogging.
A coccyx bruise, which occurred quite unexpectedly, ended my hopeful career, namely while jumping over a huge fire hydrant, as the (see arrow) illustration shows.
From then on, my focus shifted to a different target group, with different performance requirements.
My school days.
When I told my father that I would
make my living as a draftsman in the
future, he was – frankly – not very
enthusiastic.
Establishment of own screen
printing studio.
In 1976 I got married.
Several trips through Italy and India.
Serious disease occurs,
followed by an extensive
withdrawal from the
public.
2019 the last, among the very few public appearances of Hans Wieringer, at a vernissage in his home country Austria, on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Visibly marked by his longstanding serious illness,but still with the drawing pencil in his hand.
In September 2021 the artist Hans
Wieringer had decided to put down his
pencil forever, most likely with a smile.
He passed away at the age of 72.
Hans Wieringer was an Austrian artist and screen printer. A lively humanist with original ideas and a flair for the average.
His works are distinctive and original. He created his art in his image: blunt, witty and sympathetic.
Hans Wieringer invites you into his pictorial world of cartoons where he plays with figures, shapes, colour and material. He is the tour guide; enjoy getting lost!
