Franka Lechner

Biographie

• 1944 born in Vienna (Aut)
  childhood in South America
• schooldays in Vienna (Aut)
  studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (Aut) with Prof. Sergius Pauser
• seit 1969 exhibitions of tapestry and paintings;
  lyrics
• 1972-73 stay with her family in Boston (USA)
• seit 1976 member of the Austrian Society of artists (Künstlerhaus)
• 1985 „Sand ist im Feuer“ – lyrics, Weilburg-edition
• lives and works in Vienna and Rosenburg/ Kamp (Aut)

Exhibits in public art collections

• Museum for applied Arts Vienna (Aut)
• Landesmuseum Niederösterreich
• church of Bad Schallerbach/ Upper Austria
• Essl Collection (Aut)
• Hospital in Waidhofen/ Thaya/ Lower Austria
• mortuary chapel, Schwanenstad (Upper Austria)

Awards

• 1989 Anerkennungspreis des Landes Niederösterreich (Literatur)
• 1999 medallion of honour of the Society of the Austrian artists
• 2023 Honorary Prize of Lower Austria

Exhibitions

• numerous national and international exhibitions
  Italy, USA, Czech Republic, Poland, Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, France. China – Peking, Great Britain