Clemens Gröszer

Clemens C. Gröszer (born April 20, 1951 in Berlin ; † October 4, 2014 there ) was a German painter , graphic artist and sculptor .

life and work

Grave site in the Evangelical Cemetery in Berlin-Friedrichshagen

The first pictures were taken in 1967. After graduating from school, Gröszer worked from 1967 to 1969 as a laboratory assistant for Günter Tembrock at the Institute for Zoology in Berlin. In 1970 he graduated from high school. In 1971 a traineeship at the Institute for Monument Preservation in Schwerin followed. From 1972 to 1976 he studied painting restoration and painting at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee , among others with Kurt Robbel ; later life drawing with Werner Stötzer . In 1973 he married the future architect Anna Colden. In the same year the son Marc Gröszer, who works as a sculptor today, was born. In 1974 Gröszer first met Rolf Biebl and Harald K. Schulze , who later co-founded the artist group “ Neon Real ” (founded in 1981). In 1975 the daughter Rosa Gröszer was born, who is now a fashion designer. In 1976 Gröszer became a freelance artist.

In the 1970s Gröszer occupied himself with landscape painting. Here he tried out various stylistic devices as well as plein air work on site (for example in Niederlehme , since 1973). In addition, he worked on printmaking techniques of etching , then aquatint , copperplate engraving and, from 1980, lithography .

Since 1978 Gröszer has been experimenting with sound and kinetic objects and in the same year he started making Super 8 films . The highlight of this period of upheaval was the 70-minute film Judith and Holofernes in 1980 , which was largely made on the Baltic coast and Berlin with the help of artist friends.

In 1979, Gröszer developed the classic glaze technique, to which he has dedicated himself to the end. From 1980 to 1983 Gröszer was a master student at the Academy of Arts of the GDR with the sculptor Wieland Förster . Here his deepening in figurative painting began. During this period, portraits were created in front of the model, such as Antoinette (1982) or allegorical figure compositions such as Marin á cholie (I) (1983). They show Gröszer's distinctive painting style, which is often referred to as “neo-revist”, characterized by accuracy, sharpening and staging power, to which collage elements were occasionally added as an eye illusion. From this time on, the picture figure was often anchored life-size in the picture space. In direct comparison with the models, figures such as the portraits AP (1983–1989) were created. The self-portrait has also had a permanent place in work since the late 1970s, such as Self-Portrait in Front of Red Wallpaper (1980) or Mummenschantz d'enfant (1999/2001).

In 1986 the artist had his first major retrospective in the Bodo Niemann gallery in Berlin (West). Since 1987 he has traveled to Switzerland, France and Italy, among others. Since the beginning of the 1990s, Gröszer deepened his sculptural work. In 1992 the first large triptych with the title Big Paradise and in the spring of 2011 Grand Café (Café Einstein) was completed as the third large triptych .

After his death in 2014, the art museum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus showed the large work exhibition "Clemens Gröszer - Constellations II" (autumn 2015).

Works

(Selection)

• Hello Miss, please contact us… 1984, mixed media, collage on canvas ( National Gallery Berlin )
• Café Liolet . 1986, mixed media, collage on canvas ( Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus )
• Ines in the red dress . 1989, mixed media on canvas ( Berlinische Galerie )
• Melancholy (Anja with a mask) . 1988/1990, mixed media on canvas
• Angel . 1997/1999, bronze
• Twilight . 2002, oil on canvas, triptych
• Capital Queen (Queen of the Night) . 1999–2004, mixed media on canvas
• Marin á cholie XII . 2004, mixed media, silver on chipboard

Solo exhibitions

(Selection)

• 1983 Brandenburg, Galerie an der Havel (with R. Biebl)
• 1985 Cottbus, Carl Blechen Gallery (with H. Schulze)
• 1986 Frankfurt (Oder), cabinet of the Galerie Junge Kunst
• 1988 Suhl, gallery in Steinweg
• 1989 San Marino, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna (with H. Schulze and others)
• 1989 Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurter Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath
• 1993 Cottbus, Brandenburg Art Collections
• 1993 Halle, State Gallery Moritzburg
• 1993 Hamburg, Galerie Christian Zwang
• 1997 Karlsruhe, Kirrmann Gallery
• 2000 Alt-Langsow, school and prayer house (with R. Biebl, H. Schulze)
• 2002 Michael W. Schmalfuss Gallery, Marburg
• 2003 Frankfurt am Main, Gutenberg Book Guild
• 2003 Berlin, Christian Zwang Gallery
• 2004 Berlin, Galerie Berlin (with Werner Tübke )
• 2004 Dresden, New Saxon Art Association
• 2005 Apolda, Kunsthaus Apolda Avantgarde
• 2005 Cappenberg Castle, Unna district
• 2005 Rostock, Kunsthalle
• 2006 Halle (Saale), Dr. Stelzer and Zaglmaier
• 2006 Michael W. Schmalfuss Gallery, Marburg
• 2009 Berlin, Galerie Festl & Maas
• 2011 Berlin, Gallery Berlin
• 2011 Potsdam, museum house "In the golden arm"
• 2011 Chemnitz, New Saxon Gallery “ Otto Dix for his 120th birthday” with VSuNW
• 2011 Chemnitz, Weise Galerie und Kunsthandel (with Volker Stelzmann and Otto Dix )
• 2012 Gallery Pankow, Berlin "Grand Café"
• 2014 City of Schieder-Schwalenberg, Robert Koepke House, "Temptation"
• 2015 Cottbus, Art Museum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus Clemens Gröszer - Constellations II

literature

• Neon Real. Rolf Biebl, Clemens Gröszer, Harald Schulze. 3rd exhibition. State Art Collections Cottbus. Cottbus 1990.
• Jörg Sperling (Ed.): Clemens Gröszer. Paintings and hand drawings from the years 1980-1992. Brandenburg Art Collections, Cottbus 1992, ISBN 3-928696-37-8 . (With texts by Matthias Flügge, Waltraud Broderson, Claus Mewes and Jörg Sperling.)
• Clemens Gröszer. Selection of works 1975-2005. Philo & Philo Fine Arts, Berlin et al. 2005, ISBN 3-86572-517-1 . (With texts by Matthias Flügge, Jörg Sperling and Werner Stötzer.)
• Clemens Gröszer, Antlitz Verlag für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86984-295-0 (text by Matthias Flügge)

Web links

Commons : Clemens Gröszer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• The sorcerer , portrait by Kathrin Schrader ( the daily newspaper , August 15, 2003)
• Short biography (Kunstkontor Sehmsdorf) - with examples
• Graphics (Frankfurt graphic letter)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of October 7, 2014: Big city man in the trivial world theater
2. ^ Ostsee-Zeitung from October 8, 2014: Clemens C. Gröszer died