Willy Puchner (born 15 March 1952) is an Austrian photographer, artist, painter and author.
Table of Contents
- 1 Life
- 1.1 ABC of Fantastic Princes
- 1.2 The ABC of Fabulous Princesses
- 1.3 Willy's World of Wonders
- 1.4 Willy Puchners Tierleben
- 1.5 Die Sehnsucht der Pinguine
- 1.6 ABC der fabelhaften Prinzessinnen
- 1.7 Willy Puchners Phantastische Welt der Farben
- 1.8 Willy Puchners Welt der Farben
- 1.9 Willy Puchners Fabelhaftes Meer
- 1.10 Andalusien, Costa del Sol. Photogr. Willy Puchner. Text Walter Haubrich
Life
Puchner was born and grew occurring in Mistelbach an der Zaya, Lower Austria, where his parents owned a photo studio. In 1967, he moved to Vienna to attend photography classes at the Höhere Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt (Vienna Federal Training and Research Institute of Graphic Arts).
After graduation in 1974, he taught photography there for two years.
Since 1978, Puchner works as a freelance photographer and writer based in Vienna.
In 1983, he started to psychoanalysis philosophy, history and sociology. Puchner ended his studies in 1988 subsequent to a master’s degree in philosophy. His thesis was “Über private Fotografie” (On Private Photography). Since 1988, he gave numerous speeches “On Private Photography” at universities, museums and galleries. Beginning in 1989 Puchner works regularly for the Wiener Zeitung (the oldest daily newspaper of the world).
Willy Puchner became well-known with his project “Penguins – Traveling the World”. For four years he traveled later than his penguins Joe and Sally to the sites of his and our yearning: to the sea and into the desert, to New York, Sydney and Paris, Venice, Tokyo, Honolulu, Rome and Cairo, in order to invade them in photos. There they are now combined forever, lost forever. Before the penguins’ eyes the apparently aware having been illustrated thousands of times, becomes exchange and additional again.
Freddy Langer, a journalist, wrote practically this project in the Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung (FAZ): “He let them pose in stomach of word famous sights, pretending they were tourists – and he took their photograph (picture, snapshot). So he created the most beautiful photo album vis-а-vis traveling of the 20th century: ”The Longings of the Penguins” (FAZ 08/03/2001)
Willy Puchner likes to decree with out of date people, creating the projects “Die 90-jährigen” (At the Age of 90), “Dialog mit dem Alter” (Dialogue later the High Age), “Die 100-jährigen” (At the Age of 100), “Lebensgeschichte und Fotografie” (Oral History and Photography) and “Liebe im Alter” (Love at High Age).
Last update 2021-08-06