Christian Kruck
Christian Kruck (* 12. February 1925 in Hamburg , † 18th September 1985 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German painter and lithographer of Expressionism .
life and work
In 1936 Christian Kruck moved to Nuremberg with his parents . After his apprenticeship as a lithographer , he studied fine arts in 1942 under Otto Michael Schmitt and Hermann Wilhelm at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg . From 1943 he did military service , then he was a prisoner of war until 1946 . He then continued his studies in Nuremberg and Freiburg im Breisgau .
At the end of the 1940s he made the acquaintance of the Künstlerbund members Erich Heckel , Otto Dix and Curth Georg Becker . In 1949 Kruck went back to Hamburg as a freelance artist and in 1950 married the painter Linde Körner. He developed the " stone printing painting" - a process in which up to 20 colors are printed from one stone. On the recommendation of Heckel, Kruck was appointed technical manager of the printing workshops at the State University of Fine Arts - Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main in 1953 . In the 1950s he took part in the annual exhibitions of the German Association of Artists. In 1962 he was given a teaching position at the Pratt Graphic Art Center in New York . In 1965 he participated in the portfolio II "European graphics" by Ketterer in Munich and made his first sculptural works. Study trips to New York , Washington , Italy, Spain, Greece, Spain, Israel and the Canary Islands followed . In 1970 he became a lecturer in printmaking at the Städelschule .
Awards
- 1975 First prize from the International Senefelder Foundation
- 1983 Daniel Henry Kahnweiler Prize of the City of Rockenhausen / Palatinate
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1973 Christian Kruck and Linde Kruck-Körner, Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern
- 1980 Stone printing paintings by Christian Kruck, Middle Rhine State Museum , Mainz
- 1982 Stone prints by Christian Kruck, Hormoldhaus, Bietigheim-Bissingen
- 1998/99 Christian Kruck, lithographs and late pictures, Museum Goch
- 2016 class Wilhelm! Burghart, Eppich, Hasselt, Heyduck, Koller, Reichart, Vornberger and their teacher Hermann Wilhelm , Kunstvilla Nürnberg
literature
- Kruck, Christian . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 126 .
- 1962 Christian Kruck - technique and printing of artistic lithography
- 1963 Léopold Lyon - stone prints, etchings, watercolors by Ch. Kruck
- 1964 Wilhelm Weber - History of Lithography, Vol. II
- 1985 Wilhelm Weber - Christian Kruck - lithography painting
- 1986 Museum Wiesbaden - Christian Kruck, watercolors and lithographs
- 1998 Edition Fichter - Ch. Kruck, Italiens Tage, Frankfurt
Web links
- The official Christian Kruck website of the community of heirs
- Literature by and about Christian Kruck in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Myriam Maiser: Dissertation FU Berlin, chapter The analysis of the annual exhibitions from 1951 to 1955 , p.181 (PDF; 582 kB)
- ↑ International Senefelder Foundation website ( memento of the original dated January 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kruck, Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and lithographer of Expressionism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 12, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 18, 1985 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |