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    Biography
      Born 1964 in Bludenz - Died 2015 in Vienna
He lived and worked in Bludenz, Gurtis, Innsbruck, St. Georgen (N ) and Vienna
   
    1986
 Beginning of artistic activity with drawing and literature
    1991-1995
 Studies at the University of Applied and Contemporary Art, Vienna
   
Department painting, graphic arts and animated film with Christian Ludwig Attersee
    1995
 Diploma of Painting and graphic arts with commendation of the University for Applied/Contemporary Art
    1996
 Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
   
Department sculpture with Bruno Gironcoli
   
   
    Awards
    1991
 Prize of the 22nd Austrian Graphic Art Competition
Prize of the Creditanstalt
    1995
 Prize of the Federal state Tyrol, Austria
    1996
 Prize of the Siemens Art Network
    2003/2004
 Nominated for the Georg Eissler award of the Bank Austria Unicredit Group
   
   

In three decades, Michael Vonbank created a large, multi-layered, original and highly varied body of work that encompasses the media of painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, photography, video, audio, theatre, prose and poetry. His work has been awarded with prizes and is represented in many private and public collections. The estate of Michael Vonbank comprises several thousand works.

His art is intuitive, spontaneous and powerful. Michael Vonbank brought ideas to the point in a matter of seconds, he was the medium and mouthpiece of his inexhaustible creative reservoir.

Vonbank worked a lot. His art often dealed with "opposite worlds" within the individual or social-cultural level. Vonbank aimed to uncover and reflect on "opposite worlds" that coexist in the same context but which also clash regularly. This realms can be of individual or psychological nature and they can be social or cultural realms.
   
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