UC Clermont Art Gallery Features Award-Winning Artist Wolfgang Ritschel

Austrian-born professor and award-winning artist Wolfgang A. Ritschel will feature some of his newer pieces in the UC Clermont College Art Gallery from April 3- 28, 2007.

In Vienna, Ritschel pursued his art studies along with philosophy, pharmacy and medicine. In his artwork, he fuses his aesthetic experience of reality with scientific insight. ”As an artist, I express myself by an inner drive to witness the distinctively human experience, to capture impressions and visions perceived as individual and subject,” said Ritschel.

Since 1990, Ritschel has featured his work in 60 solo exhibits and more than 250 group shows in the United States, Europe and South America. His works are in the permanent collections of several museums and in private and corporate collections. He was commissioned by the Behringer-Crawford Museum to design and execute three stained-glass windows for the new addition building. Four of his paintings can be seen in the lobby of the Vontz Center for Molecular Studies at the University of Cincinnati.

Ritschel’s honors include: second prize, National Art Competition and Exhibition “Viewpoint 2005” Hermann Wessel Gallery; honorary mention, 42nd Annual Greater Hamilton County Art Exhibition, Fitton Center for Creative Art; and nomination and invitation to exhibit at the 2005 International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Florence, Italy. 

Please join the artist for his reception on Wednesday, April 4 from 5-8 p.m. in the Art Gallery.

The Clermont College Art Gallery is sponsored by Park National Bank and is located in the Snyder Building on the UC Clermont College campus in Batavia at 4200 Clermont College Dr. Hours are Monday - Thursday 7:30 a.m. - 7 p.m., Friday 7:30 a.m.-  5 p.m. and Saturday 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. The exhibition is free and open to the public.