Axel Groehl

Axel Groehl in 2013

Axel Groehl (born September 10, 1953 in Worms ) is a German painter , sculptor and set designer .

Life

Groehl studied fine art at the art schools in Mainz from 1970 to 1973 with Rembert Albert and in Hamburg from 1978 to 1983. He was a master student with André Gérard and assistant for stage design and film architecture with Gerd Krauss.

In 1982 he was a co-founder of the artists' association “Atelier Violett”.

In 1983 he created the set and costume design for the new production of Collodi's “Pinocchio” in the “Haus im Park” theater in Hamburg.

In 1984 he was the architect of several film projects, including for Axel von Ambesser in the “Studio Hamburg”.

He has been a freelance visual artist since 1985.

Axel Groehl lives and works in Hamburg, from 2003 to 2006 he worked in Cincinnati, USA. He was a member of the Cincinnati Art Club there . He is the initiator and co-founder of the Finkenwerder Art Prize and was a member of the Board of Trustees for several years.

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Axel Groehl's work encompasses several large cycles. If you look at these, you can observe interesting artistic steps and the development they follow. The staging of his work follows the maxim of opening the view into the human levels that the work projects onto the viewer.

Works and cycles (selection)

• "American Skin" 1986–1988
• "Herzsprung" 1993–1994
• "Shadow" 1995-1996, 2004-2005
• “From banalities to solemn events” 1999–2002
• "French Revolution" 1993–2003
• "Babylon" 2003-2005
• "37 Cent" 2008
• "French Revolution" since 2015

Works of art in public space

• "Mahnmal KZ Gedenkstätte Deutsche Werft # Memorials ", Concrete / Bronze / Rowan, Hamburg, 1998
• "Aqua Viva", bronze / blue imperial marble, fountain system, Hamburg, 1999
• "How are you?", Bronze / Blue Imperial Marble, Raumskulptur, Hamburg, 2000
• “Beyond Time”, polished stainless steel / Dietfurter Kalkstein, monument, Hamburg, 2001
• "Lichterloh", bronze, spatial sculpture, Munich, 2003
• “The Citizens”, bronze / sandstone, sculpture group, Hamburg, 2008
• "Hinni", bronze / granite, sculpture, Hamburg, 2011

Exhibitions (selection)

• Museum of Hamburg History - "French Revolution"
• Fitton Center for Creative Arts, Hamilton, USA - "Babylon"; Award
• The Mockbee Art Gallery, Cincinnati, USA - "Did you forget"
• Gorch Fock Halle, Hamburg - “Retrospective”; Award as artist of the Elbstädte HF
• University of Applied Sciences for Business Management (WHU), Vallendar - “From banalities to solemn events”. Claudia Becker, editor of the features section Berliner Morgenpost writes “... the Hamburg artist celebrates the sensation of everyday life with his oversized depictions of the simplest things in life. ... "
• Esplanade Gallery, Berlin

literature

• Exhibition Catalog Axel Groehl: Querfeldein , with contributions by Frank Keller, 1996
• Eva Roland-Schellack: Axel Groehl - Pictures, Sculptures, Drawings , 2000
• Axel Groehl: Pictures - Sculptures - Drawings 1996–2002, book, 2002, ISBN 3-00-011422-X
• Marion Rollin: Getting there faster , GEO Wissen, 2003
• Bernd Sösemann: The end of the good old days , exhibition catalog French Revolution, 2003
• Allianz Kunstsammlung: A journey of discovery through Germany , 2015, ISBN 9783945317129