“Nature artist” Lois Weinberger died at the age of 72.



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Tyrolean concept artist Lois Weinberger died in Vienna Tuesday night at the age of 72, as reported “Der Standard” online. Weinberger has been concerned with the relationship between nature and civilization since the 1970s. The two-time documentary filmmaker also played in the Austrian pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale in 2009.

Weinberger was born on September 24, 1947 in Stams, Tirol. After training as a locksmith and blacksmith, he attended the Vienna School of Art. Weinberger’s work, often located at the intersection of art and nature, brought an invitation to the Sao Paulo Biennale. Weinberger became better known when in 1997, at Docu X, he planted a 100-meter-long railroad at Kassel Kulturbahnhof with non-native botany from the Balkans. In 2009 Weinberger and his wife Franziska were invited to the Austrian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, and in 2017 he returned to play in the documentary in Kassel and its subsidiaries in Athens.