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Roland Goeschl (Salzburg 1932 - 2016 Vienna) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Fritz Wotruba. Today he is one of the most important representatives of the Austrian avant-garde after 1945. His oeuvre includes numerous drawings and sculptural works. Initially, the focus of his work was mainly on figures in motion, although he did not aim to sketch his images of people naturally, but to abstract them. As an unmistakable feature, whether on paper or in his sculptures, the tricolour surface emerged early on, consisting of red-yellow-blue elements - piled on top of each other, strictly arranged or even playful. His colour sculptures initially met with rejection, and yet the artist pursued his vision of colour becoming material. He thus opened up a discourse on spatiality, architecture, sculpture and sculpture.
Roland Goeschl was a participant in documenta III in 1964 and documenta IV in 1968 in Kassel. From 1972 he taught as a full professor at the Institute of Art and Design at the Vienna University of Technology, where one of his striking sculptures can still be seen on the roof of the building. He etched himself into the Austrian collective memory with the design of the Humanic logo and the design of the Humanic Haus at Favoritenstraße 126 in Vienna.
