Biography
Josef Florian Krichbaum was born in Innsbruck, Austria in 1974. He studied painting at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, where he graduated with distinction. Since then, he has lived and worked as a freelance artist in Vienna and in Hausruck, Upper Austria.
"... Fritz Ostermeyer has noticed the similarity between Josef Krichbaum and Nicholas Ofczarek and perhaps it is not only the physical presence of the person but also the delicately powerful, classical trained absurdity, mannered realism that gives his work a similarly Ofczarek-like presence. Josef "Pepi" Krichbaum has founded his own Viennese school, a fantastically fantastic realist, whose pictures always surprise again and again..."
-Franzobel
Exhibtions
2021
Art Austria Artfair
Bakerhouse Gallery Berlin, Germany
2020
"The Big Now" (Solo) Bakerhouse Gallery Graz, Austria
Arte Wiesbaden Artfair
ArtMuc Munich
SIAF Artfair Salzburg
2019
Discovery Artfair Cologne
Makava Art @ Bakerhouse Gallery
Arte Wiesbaden Art Fair
Epic Opening, Bakerhouse 2.0
Discovery Artfair Frankfurt
Don't Wake Daddy 14, Feinkunst Krüger Hamburg
Whispers lead the Way, Wowxwow Art Gallery, UK
2018
Epic 1, Bakerhouse Gallery Graz
Between Bruegel and Spitzweg, Museum Münze Hall/Tyrol, Personale
Pop Up Malmö, Nordic Art Agency
2017
Bakerhouse Gallery Graz
Affordable Artfair Stockholm (Nordic Art Agency)
Gallery Zwach / Personale "Midsummer Tales" Personale
DomGalerie Wr. Neustadt "The search for the bacon algorithm", Personale
2016
Gallery GPL Vienna "Silent Worlds" / Personale
Gallery Kunst&Handel/Gallery Gerhard Sommer, Graz
2015
Stadtturmgalerie Schwanenstadt "Halbschlaf Gelichter" Personale
2014
Brecher Buchleiten "The return of the guards" /anniversary exhibition
Cathedral Gallery Wiener Neustadt, Personale
Trierenberg Art Traun / Personale
Galerie Schloss Gabelhofen / symposium/exhibition
2013
Gallery of the city of Traun, "Welcome to Skurrilistan" / Personal exhibition
Gallery Schloss Gabelhofen "To the guardians of Skurrilistan" / Personale
Artists' symposium with exhibition "Kunst aufgeSchlossen" (Art unlocked)
2012
Artfair "Realisme Amsterdam
Gallery Mark Peet Visser "Realists" (NL)
Egon Schiele Centrum Krumau (CZ) "Humor/Art" / Personal exhibition
"35 Years" Cathedral Gallery Wr. Neustadt
Book painting Franzobel novel
2011
Festival of the districts Vienna (studio exhibition)
Art Days Dornum/North Sea, Germany / Personale
The Mall Galleries London (UK) Royal Society for Miniature Painters.
2010
Cathedral Gallery Wr. Neustadt "Personale JFK".
Book cover Franzobel novel "Austria is beautiful. A Fairy Tale"
Art fair Art Austria Vienna (Gallery Peithner-Lichtenfels)
Artwork Indie-Band GARISH
2009
Gallery Peithner-Lichtenfels Vienna "Phantom Salon II", Personale
Käthe Zwach Gallery "Phantom Salon III", personal exhibition
2008
Domgalerie Wr. Neustadt "3 times 3" with Christian Flora and Peter Gric
Kunstraum Praterstraße "Phantom Salon I", personal exhibition
2007
Art fair Realisme07 (Gallery Lieve Hemel)
Art fair s'Hertogenbosch (Gallery Lieve Hemel)
2006
Gallery Weilinger Salzburg Personale "Journey through the Year
Commissioned painting for the Upper Austrian Provincial Exhibition 2006
Kufstein Castle "On the Austrian Soul" Erwin Ringel Society
ECB Frankfurt "Insights
Cathedral Gallery Wiener Neustadt "Versponnen flanieren" Personal exhibition
Book publication "Marottenkiste" with a text by Franzobel
2005
Gallery Peithner-Lichtenfels Personal exhibition "JFKrichbaum
2004
Gallery Peithner-Lichtenfels "Death dances
2003
Ursulinenhof Linz personal exhibition
Cathedral Gallery Wr. Neustadt Personal Exhibition "Society Ironesques
Gallery Peithner-Lichtenfels Vienna "Young Generation
2002
Gallery Zwach Dorschvilla Schörfling Personal exhibition
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