Background
Prantl was born on November 5, 1923 in Pöttsching in the Austrian state Burgenland in the Austro-Hungarian civil servant family. His grandfather was a baker and farmer.
He studied from 1946 to 1952 with the painter Albert Paris Gütersloh at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in Vienna.
Prantl was born on November 5, 1923 in Pöttsching in the Austrian state Burgenland in the Austro-Hungarian civil servant family. His grandfather was a baker and farmer.
He studied from 1946 to 1952 with the painter Albert Paris Gütersloh at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in Vienna.
In 1953, he moved to Vienna, where he joined the group of artists Der Kreis. In 1956, Prantl passed a six-month study visit to Rome as part of a scholarship from the Federal Ministry of Education and the Arts of Austria.
In 1958, Prantl moved to his first studio in the crypt of the Vienna Stadtban on the Danube Canal.
In 1965, Prantl moved to a new studio, the wing of the Vienna World Fair (1873), the federal state studio.
After spending several years in the United States, Prantl moved with his family to Pötzing in Burgenland in 1978, where he lived and worked until his death.
He was the founder of the International Sculpture Symposium. He held his first international symposium (Symposion Europaischer Bildhauer) with 8 participants in the old quarry Römersteinbruch in Sankt Margarethen im Burgenland. Prantl was invited to exhibit work in the Austrian Pavilion of the Venice Biennale in 1986.
Prantl died of a stroke at his home on October 8, 2010 at the age of 86.
In 1957 he married the artist Ute Peyrere, with whom he had two children: Katharina Prantl and Sebastian Prant.