Claus Korch
Claus Korch (born March 27, 1936 in Magdeburg ; † January 11, 2019 ) was a German sculptor and graphic artist .
Life
Claus Korch studied from 1956 to 1961 at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin with Ludwig Gabriel Schrieber . The teacher's open attitude made it easy for his students to find their own way. This was particularly true of Claus Korch. Due to his activity as a drawing teacher, he did not have to expose himself to the tough competition for public or private commissions, but was able to follow his own ideas more easily, regardless of fashions or contemporary upheavals. Even with portrait sculpting, traditionally a task in which the client's wishes had to be taken into account, he was free to create individual designs.
Claus Korch's way of working was methodologically clear. He has sculptures and sculptures. Like his colleagues, he mastered the standardized procedure for figurative sculpture: modeling in clay, molding in plaster and then the bronze casting, which was carried out by a foundry. Claus Korch chose bronze for a number of portraits or for expansively moving figures, such as the "Reclining" from 1983.
For him, however, bronze was not the preferred material: Korch was a passionate stone sculptor . He made life as an artist more difficult than many of his colleagues because this work is riskier than modeling in soft clay. Claus Korch, who carried out his stone work by hand, always worked directly without prepress; However, he prepared some of his sculptures with plastic or graphic sketches. However, the transfer to the original material and the larger scale was never a mechanical copying. Korch often modeled the small plastic models not in soft clay, but in plaster. The brittleness of this material is a little closer to the stone.
The book art work is little known because of small editions. B. twelve drypoint etchings for Brothers Grimm “The twelve lazy servants” (Berlin 1984, 20 copies).
From 1961 he worked as a freelance sculptor in Berlin . Claus Korch died in January 2019 at the age of 82.
Solo exhibitions
- 1969: Berlin gallery
- 1973: Kunsthalle Bremen
- 1974: State Museum Oldenburg
- 1975: Galerie Bassenge, Berlin
- 1978: Kunsthalle Mannheim
- 1979: Galerie Bassenge, Berlin
- 1981: Galerie Pels-Leusden, Berlin
- 1989: Museum for Art and Cultural History of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
- 1991: Galerie Taube, Berlin
- 1995: Galerie Taube, Berlin
- 2006: Georg Kolbe Museum , Berlin
- 2011: University Library of the Free University of Berlin
- 2013: Galerie Taube, Berlin
Publicly owned works
Berlinische Galerie ; Bode Museum , Berlin; Georg Kolbe Museum , Berlin; Kupferstichkabinett , Berlin; Münzkabinett , Berlin; City Museum Berlin ; Bröhan Museum , Berlin; Jewish Museum Berlin ; Art gallery Bremen ; Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Foundation , Duisburg; Kleist Museum , Frankfurt / Oder; Graphic Collection, Coburg; Goethemuseum, Frankfurt / Main; Kupferstichkabinett Hamburg; Kunsthalle Mannheim ; State Museum Oldenburg ; Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum , Hagen; Rudelsburg , Bad Kösen; Graphic collection of the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart ; Albertina , Vienna; Herzog August Library , Wolfenbüttel; St. Peter's Church in St. Petersburg; Hude / Oldenburg,
literature
- Claus Korch “Sculptures and Drawings” ISBN 3-00-018461-9
Web links
- Literature by and about Claus Korch in the catalog of the German National Library
- Exhibition (PDF; 128 kB) in the university library of the Free University of Berlin
Individual evidence
- ↑ Luci van Org : Information from the daughter on the death of Claus Korch. January 12, 2019, accessed January 12, 2019 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Korch, Claus |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor and graphic artist |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 27, 1936 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Magdeburg |
DATE OF DEATH | January 11, 2019 |