Raumteiler
Peter Niedertscheider
East Tyrolean artist Peter Niedertscheider’s expressive means is the rilievo schiacciato, the “flattened” relief, with which he explores complex possibilities of contemporary figurative sculpture. In his new series of works, Room Dividers (Raumteiler), realised in marble or limestone, motifs are set in varying relationships to one another through a subtle interaction of surface and space. In this way, proportions are also subverted to alter the significance of things.
Visitors text by Bettina Siegele
Peter Niedertscheider was born in 1972 in Lienz, where he still lives and works. From 1995 – 1999 he studied in Vienna at the University of Applied Arts (master class Hrdlicka, Kowanz). From 2013 to 2018, he was a lecturer at the Art University of Linz and taught in the class for plastic conceptions/ceramics. In 2014 and 2015 he was a lecturer at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg.
Since 2018, Niedertscheider has been teaching at the HTL Hallein in the Sculpture Department. Since 2000, his works have been exhibited, among others, at the Palais Harrach, at the WUK and in the Museumsquartier in Vienna, in the RLB Ateliers Innsbruck and Lienz, at Porcia Castle and at the Monastry, in galleries in the USA and in Italy and last but not least in the Museum of the City of Lienz at Schloss Bruck as well as art in public space. His art is in both public and private collections. private collections.
He is one of the winners of the 25. Österreichischen Graphikwettbewerb in Innsbruck, received the prize of the RLB Tirol in 1998 and in 1999 the Rome scholarship at the Atelier Paliano of the province of Tyrol. In 2002 he was awarded the Paul Flora Prize and a recognition award to the Prof.Hilde Goldschmidt Prize.
Peter Niedertscheider is a member of the Tiroler Künstler:innenschaft.
