Norbert Strolz (1922 - 1990)

Norbert Strolz

Norbert Strolz was an Austrian artist who studied church painting with Toni Kirchmayr in Innsbruck. He studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts with Franz Elsner and Herbert Bekl, and received a scholarship to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence in 1953/54 under Otton Rosai. In 1965 he had his first solo exhibition at the Tiroler Kunstpavillon in Innsbruck. From 1960 he worked as a freelance artist in Landeck. He co-founded the Landeck District Museum Association and was its chairman from 1971 to 1990. He created many ceramics, frescoes, sgraffito and mosaics, especially in public buildings as part of the post-war Art in Architecture programme in Tyrol.