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23 March 1940
Birth in Wels, Upper Austria, Austria.
Childhood
Marked by extended hospital stays due to bone tuberculosis; early confrontation with existence. Pain, isolation, and inner imaginative spaces.
1958
Move to Vienna.
1958–1963
Training at the Höhere Graphische Bundes-, Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt, Vienna.
1963–1966
Studies in sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Hans Andre, Fritz Wotruba, and Josef Pillhofer.
Early Works
Head and nude studies, figurative drawings, sculptures characterized by formal rigor and reduction.
29 July 1967
Birth of daughter Marija Angerer.
since 1967
Work as a freelance sculptor and advertising graphic designer.
from the 1970s
Development of an independent formal language.
from 1978
Intensive engagement with ancient Egyptian mythology, formative influence on the creation of sculptures with titles such as Nephthys, Isis, Osiris.
1979–1980
Studies and diploma under Bruno Gironcoli at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
1981
Exhibition Das Quadrat und der Würfel – eine phänomenologische Analyse, Secession, Vienna.
Studio
in Neuruppersdorf, Laa an der Thaya, Lower Austria.
1983–2003
Teaching position at the Höhere Graphische Bundes-, Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt Vienna, Department of Graphic Design.
since 1990
Creation of the first Meditation sculptures.
1991
Creation of the first Scale sculpture.
1991
Work cycle Im Augenblick der Ewigkeit.
1992
Exhibition Im Augenblick der Ewigkeit. Skulpturen, Bilder, Grafiken, Wiener Secession, Vienna.
2004
Creation of the first Yin-Yang sculpture.
2004
Exhibition Stein und Sein, Künstlerhaus Vienna (with Guido Zehetbauer-Salzer).
from the 2010s
Beginning of the metal foldings.
2012
Exhibition Rückblick/Querschnitt, Österreichische Beamtenversicherung, Vienna.
2019
Exhibition Walter Angerer-Niketa, Gallery of the Upper Austrian Art Association, Linz, Upper Austria.
2020
Exhibition Choreographie der Stille (with Ray Malone), zs art gallery, Vienna.
24 September 2021
Death in Laa an der Thaya, Lower Austria, Austria.
since 2022
Beginning of the processing of the estate of Walter Angerer-Niketa.
2023
Retrospective exhibition Im Augenblick der Ewigkeit. Walter Angerer-Niketa (1940–2021), zs art gallery, Vienna.
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