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