Her weird pictures adorn T-shirts, can be found in various exhibitions, hang in trendy ski huts or decorate hotel and private rooms in Berlin, London, Zurich, Oslo or even Hollywood.
A dinner party of dogs, a deer in a dirndl apron or elegantly in a Chanel suit, a chamois and a deer as a skier couple: The “Wild Painting” by Rose-Marie Winkler is reminiscent of fairy tale books from our childhood, in which animals seem like human beings.
Her humorous “Wild Painting”, which is a combination of animal heads and human bodies, has been in great demand for many years. “Each subject is carefully selected and a powerful background is designed,” she says of her collage technique, and each image is unmistakably unique. The character of the animal humans flows into the pictures and loving little details decorate them additionally: Real elements such as hunting trophies, old jewelry, discarded buttons, broken watches or colorful fabrics are given new life by decorating the works of art. The many extras allow you to discover something new every time you look at the pictures.
Her husband, Ernst Winkler – a former ski racer and hunter – has the honorable task of screwing the doodles onto the pictures once the acrylic painting is complete.
Artistic creative since childhood
Rose-Marie Winkler was one of the best cooks in Austria. After she Sonnhof in St. Veit passed it on to her son Vitus, she devoted herself only to painting. Rose-Marie Winkler has always been artistically active. She spent many hours of her childhood in her parents’ dining room, mostly equipped with a drawing pad and paints. It was a good thing that many painters and artists belonged to the Sonnhof’s circle of guests and were happy to give the little girl a little lesson. Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Ernst von Dombrowsky, Hans Menzel and later also Prof. Itzinger were among her artistic foster fathers.
She would have liked to have considered her creativity when choosing a career, but her father preferred to see her in the hospitality industry. She graduated from hotel management school and then a language school in France. All her creative effort belonged to the kitchen, the plates became her canvas and she cooked up a toque and two stars. Son Vitus later took over the Sonnhof in the fourth generation (herb rich) and has long been one of Austria’s young kitchen stars.
Pictures adorn walls in ski huts, hotels and museums
Rose-Marie Winkler’s pictures are now in demand far beyond Austria, in many ski huts, such as in Tom’s hut Maria Alm or in Bergrestaurant Schlossalm Gastein, private houses or hotels, they adorn the walls, but also those in high-priced hotels such as Elisabeth Gürtler’s Astoria Resort in the Tyrolean Seefeld Tirol. For example, pictures of a dinner party have been on loan to the Porcelain Museum in Selb (Germany) for years or were exhibited in a gallery in Udine (Italy).
In Salzburgerland they are also known from the traditional Eddy Merxx Classics, Winkler designed their own T-shirts and a fashion line. Together with that Salzburg Heimatwerk she organized a fashion show and an exhibition. “Many visitors to Salzburgerland see my pictures in huts or in hotels and absolutely want to take such pictures home with them,” says Rose-Marie Winkler. Especially the pictures with dog heads are currently very popular, “people bring me photos of their dogs and ask for a picture.” No wonder, since their works of art are also in popular dog hotels like the Hotel Grimming in Rauris decorate the walls over entire floors and capture the zeitgeist with their originality and subtle humor.
Pictures (c): Rose-Marie Winkler, Andrea Rachersperger, Maria Riedler, private
Link: Wild painting by Rose-Marie Winkler
