Paul Flora
Drawings
Until 30 January 2022
The ALBERTINA museum is showing a comprehensive retrospective of the prominent Tyrolean artist Paul Flora (1922-2009): Focusing on Flora in his role as a draftsman, the exhibition presents a selection of some 130 works, spanning a bow from the late 1930s to the early 2000s and thus showcasing the artist’s multifaceted oeuvre of several decades. The presentation brings together masterpieces from the ALBERTINA Museum’s own holdings and important loans from the estate and from Paul Flora’s family.
What makes the drawings, which are executed in pen and ink or pencil, so captivating are their precise handling, reduced and accurately defined outlines, and meticulous hatching—characteristic stylistic features lending them a very special expressivity. The diverse selection reveals Flora’s outstanding talent as a draftsman and takes the viewer on an exciting journey through a fantastic and rich imagery. Enchanted landscapes and mysterious figures are part of the artist’s repertoire of motifs, as are black ravens or bizarre human characters underlining the humorous aspect of his output. These works are complemented by mysterious depictions of the lagoon city of Venice, adding to his canon of resourceful themes.
Flora’s drawings frequently give the impression of having sprung from a dream. Thus they not only achieve immediate accessibility but are also pictorial inventions of timeless permanence and relevance.
The exhibition is on view from 29 October 2021 until 30 January 2022.
Paul Flora: Allotment Garden, 1976
Pen drawing
(Collection of the Paul Flora Estate Administration, Salzburg © Paul Flora Estate Administration, Salzburg, and Diogenes Verlag, Zurich)
Paul Flora: La Giudecca with an Elegant Dog, 1984
32 × 41.1 cm, Pen drawing, crayon
(Collection Galerie Flora, Innsbruck | © Paul Flora Estate Administration, Salzburg, and Diogenes Verlag, Zurich)
Paul Flora: Caligari, 1965
Pen drawing
(The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna, on loan from Artothek des Bundes © Paul Flora Estate Administration, Salzburg, and Diogenes Verlag, Zurich)
Paul Flora: Three Plague Doctors and a Raven, 1986
Pen Drawing
(ALBERTINA, Vienna – Haselsteiner Family Collection © Paul Flora Estate Administration, Salzburg, and Diogenes Verlag, Zurich)
Paul Flora: Several Tigers, 1954
Pen drawing, water colored
(Collection Galerie Flora, Innsbruck © Paul Flora Estate Administration, Salzburg, and Diogenes Verlag, Zurich)
Paul Flora: In the Rain: Man, half covered by an umbrella, walking, against the rain, ca. 1946
Pen drawing
(ALBERTINA, Vienna © Paul Flora Estate Administration, Salzburg, and Diogenes Verlag, Zurich)
Paul Flora: Untitled (Three Balloons), ca. 1950
Pen drawing
(Collection Galerie Thomas Flora, Innsbruck © Paul Flora Estate Administration, Salzburg, and Diogenes Verlag, Zurich)
Paul Flora: La Peste, 1988
Pen drawing, crayon
(Collection of the Paul Flora Estate Administration, Salzburg © Paul Flora Estate Administration, Salzburg, and Diogenes Verlag, Zurich)
Paul Flora: Rat Catcher, 1975
Pen drawing
(Collection of the Paul Flora Estate Administration, Salzburg © Paul Flora Estate Administration, Salzburg, and Diogenes Verlag, Zurich)
Paul Flora: Santa Maria della Salute, Luna, 1991
Pen drawing, crayon
(Collection of the Paul Flora Estate Administration, Salzburg © Paul Flora Estate Administration, Salzburg, and Diogenes Verlag, Zurich)
Paul Flora: Wagner in Venice at Night, 1980
Pen drawing
(Collection of the Paul Flora Estate Administration, Salzburg © Paul Flora Estate Administration, Salzburg, and Diogenes Verlag, Zurich)
Paul Flora: Winter’s Night with Wayfarer, 1992
Pen drawing, crayon
(Collection Galerie Thomas Flora, Innsbruck © Paul Flora Estate Administration, Salzburg, and Diogenes Verlag, Zurich)
Pen drawing (Collection of the Paul Flora Estate Administration, Salzburg © Paul Flora Estate Administration, Salzburg, and Diogenes Verlag, Zurich)
32 × 41.1 cm, Pen drawing, crayon (Collection Galerie Flora, Innsbruck | © Paul Flora Estate Administration, Salzburg, and Diogenes Verlag, Zurich)
Pen drawing (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna, on loan from Artothek des Bundes © Paul Flora Estate Administration, Salzburg, and Diogenes Verlag, Zurich)
Pen Drawing (ALBERTINA, Vienna – Haselsteiner Family Collection © Paul Flora Estate Administration, Salzburg, and Diogenes Verlag, Zurich)
Pen drawing, water colored (Collection Galerie Flora, Innsbruck © Paul Flora Estate Administration, Salzburg, and Diogenes Verlag, Zurich)
Pen drawing (ALBERTINA, Vienna © Paul Flora Estate Administration, Salzburg, and Diogenes Verlag, Zurich)
Pen drawing (Collection Galerie Thomas Flora, Innsbruck © Paul Flora Estate Administration, Salzburg, and Diogenes Verlag, Zurich)
Pen drawing, crayon (Collection of the Paul Flora Estate Administration, Salzburg © Paul Flora Estate Administration, Salzburg, and Diogenes Verlag, Zurich)
Pen drawing (Collection of the Paul Flora Estate Administration, Salzburg © Paul Flora Estate Administration, Salzburg, and Diogenes Verlag, Zurich)
Pen drawing, crayon (Collection of the Paul Flora Estate Administration, Salzburg © Paul Flora Estate Administration, Salzburg, and Diogenes Verlag, Zurich)
Pen drawing (Collection of the Paul Flora Estate Administration, Salzburg © Paul Flora Estate Administration, Salzburg, and Diogenes Verlag, Zurich)
Pen drawing, crayon (Collection Galerie Thomas Flora, Innsbruck © Paul Flora Estate Administration, Salzburg, and Diogenes Verlag, Zurich)