Peter Pongratz
ongratz was born in Eisenstadt and grew up in Graz. He began his artistic training with an apprenticeship in drawing with Rudolf Pointner and later attended the decorative painting school at Ortweinschule, although he eventually dropped out. He attended architecture lectures by Friedrich Zotter, which also inspired his painting. From 1960, he studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and completed his education at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin in 1964, where he learned printmaking from Friedrich Stabenau.
Between 1966 and 1970, Pongratz was an assistant to Max Weiler and in 1968 co-founded the artist group Wirklichkeiten. From 1970, he worked as a freelance artist in Vienna and was also active as a stage designer. He regularly lived in Korčula from 1987 and taught a painting class at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg in 1988. Pongratz had strong ties to the literary scene and illustrated works such as Austrokoffer.
His work, influenced by Abstract Expressionism and the CoBrA group, incorporates elements of children's art and "primitive" art.
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