Armin Turk

Armin Turk (born August 4, 1943 in Werdohl ; † June 13, 2013 in Velbert ) was a German painter .

life and work

Armin Turk studied graphic design with Wilhelm Buck and Josef Urbach at the Folkwang School of Design in Essen-Werden from 1962–1967 , where he completed his studies as a master class student.

During his studies his focus on drawing and the negation of color increased.

In 1965 he met the painter, photographer and experimental filmmaker, the Bauhaus student Heinrich Brocksieper (1898–1968) in Hagen, which encouraged him to continue his artistic work. The examination of (the) color began in the following years, and the color gained more and more importance, and the first color experiments were made. In his “color fields” he saw color “as a mediator of light, border and space”. From 1978 he created the pictures “Farbräume” - his synthesis of color and light - which he continued to work on until his death.

From 1967 to 2008 he worked as an art teacher at a grammar school in Velbert.

Exhibitions

• Galerie Hintemann, Bonn, 1987 (solo exhibition)
• Märkisches Museum Witten , Witten, 1989 (solo exhibition)
• Hardenberg Castle Museum, Velbert-Neviges, 1989 (solo exhibition)
• "Landscape Pictures", Galerie Neher, Essen, 1993
• "Armin Turk", EDITION Hannappel, Essen, 1993 (solo exhibition)
• "Color-Color", Galerie Neher, Essen, 1994
• STIL-American Fine Art, Mettmann, 1995 (solo exhibition)
• “Farbräum” (with Dieter Helis), Galerie Neher, Essen, 1995
• "Color", Galerie Schütte, Essen, 1995
• "Lichte Raum", Galerie Neher, Essen, 1996
• Hintemann Gallery, Bonn, 1997
• "12 Artists", Galerie Neher, Essen, 1997
• "Art International", Galerie Neher, Essen, 1997
• "The slowness of pictures", Galerie Schütte, Essen, 1998
• "Armin Turk", Galerie Schütte, Essen, 1999 (solo exhibition)
• "Ideal Pictures", Galerie Schütte, Essen, 2000
• "111 / 12-24", Galerie Schütte, Essen, 2001
• "Painting", Galerie Schütte, Essen, 2004 (solo exhibition)
• "Color - Contrasts and Side Effects II", Kunsthaus Essen, Essen, 2004/5
• "Armin Turk", Galerie Schütte, Essen, 2007 (solo exhibition)
• "Editions 1987 - 2008", Galerie Schütte, Essen, 2009
• Art and culture group Berkelkraftwerke eV, Vreden, 2010 (solo exhibition)
• "Painting", Galerie Schütte, Essen, 2011 (solo exhibition)
• “A Glance”, images and photographs from the Schütte Collection, Galerie Schütte / Kunstraum der Scheidt'schen Hallen, Essen, 2011
• "Color-Space-Concept", Kunstraum Dreieich, Dreieich-Dreieichhain, 2012
• "Best of Ruhrgebiet - Part II / Top 20", Galerie Frank Schlag & Cie., Essen, 2013
• "ARMIN TURK and friends", Galerie Schütte / Kunstraum der Scheidt'schen Hallen, Essen, 2014
• "The color looks back", Galerie Schütte, Essen, 2014 (solo exhibition)

literature

• Literature by and about Armin Turk in the catalog of the German National Library
• Wolfgang Zemter: Armin Turk - Painting , Märkisches Museum Witten (ed.), Meinerzhagen 1989, ISBN 978-3-88913-131-7
• "Farbräum, Dietert Helis - Armin Turk", Galerie Neher (ed.), Essen 1995
• "The slowness of pictures", Galerie Schütte (ed.), Essen 1998, ISBN 3-931326-15-2
• "Armin Turk", Galerie Schütte (ed.), Essen 1999, ISBN 3-931326-22-5
• "Color - Contrasts and Side Effects", Kunsthaus Essen (ed.), Essen 2005, ISBN 3-931201-22-8 , pages 34, 35, 47
• "Color-Space-Concept", Edition Minerva (Ed.), Neuisenburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-943964-01-1
• "Best of Ruhrgebiet - Part II / Top 20", Galerie Frank Schlag & Cie (ed.), Essen 2013; Pages 6, 150-155, 183

Web links

• Gallery Schütte, Essen
• K.ECK, Velbert
• Gallery Frank Schlag & Cie, Essen
• Nikola Rukaj Gallery, Toronto
• Armin Turk - painter at work (1966/67)