At the age of 5 years I decided to become an artist. Since 1980 I am working as a painter and illustrator for numerous companies, magazines (freelancer) and on private commissions. My personal creative areas are portraits, landscapes, animal paintings and humorous-critical analysis of people.

Dr. Peter Krenek writes:“Art is as important as the daily bread"; friendly but confidently the painter and draftsman Johannes Margreiter opposes the opinion of those who think that art is desirable but basically dispensable and for sure not vital for life. Art defines “quality of life" and the more artists there are, the superior the civilization could be, he explains and regrets very much that art does not have it's well-earned status in our society. Nowadays mass media is dealing with communication and information in such a serious and “pompous" way that - apart from the unbalanced preference of bad news - life seems to be so serious and grave. “I want to point out the humorous side of life which does exist! Also joy and serenity are the most important things in life. I want people to smile in the first place and then look at things in a very new way - like having landed on this planet just a minute ago. I want to help by leaving the grooved-in way of mood and thinking, to going new ways in viewing trivial things and experiencing life".

Since 1988 I designed numerous stamps for the Austrian Federal Postal Administration UN Postal Admistration and for the Republic of Congo. The stamp of the Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was covered internationally.

Over the years by doing a whole series of Austrian stamps showing endangerd species, paintings for WWF and the ZOO of Vienna, he got well known for his representation of animals.

Johannes Margreiter

Artworks by Johannes Margreiter

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