Dorothee Rocke

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Dorothee Rocke (* 1949 in Kiel ) is a German artist.

After studying language in Cologne from 1969 to 1973, she studied fine arts at the University of Mainz from 1974 to 1980 . In 1981 she was visiting professor for painting at Middlebury College (USA), from 1988 to 1992 she had a teaching position for painting at the University of Mainz. In 1989 she was awarded the Perron Art Prize of the City of Frankenthal . From 1990 to 1991 she was teaching free design at the Aachen University of Applied Sciences , and in 1997 she was a visiting professor for drawing at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences . 2009 atelier grant from the Bartels Fondation, Basel. In 2017 she received the Ilse Hannes Art Prize from the Ilse Hannes Society, Frankfurt.

Dorothee Rocke lives in Frankfurt am Main .

Her work initially consisted of large-format charcoal drawings and, after a short phase with colored acrylic and gouache pictures, soon mainly consisted of abstract black and white acrylic pictures , which she designed not only with a brush, but also by pressing on structured objects. Lines and structures are her defining pictorial elements. From around 1995 she created series of work cycles in particular.

Her pictures have already been shown at numerous solo and group exhibitions. Significant solo exhibitions took place in 1986 at the Goethe Institute in Kyōto , in 1991 in the Künstlerhaus Edenkoben and in the Kunstverein Frankenthal and in 1996/97 at the Kunstverein Schwetzingen and in the municipal gallery in the Museum Folkwang in Essen . Since 1992 she has exhibited several times in the MI Posselt art space in Bonn , in the Erhard Witzel gallery in Wiesbaden and in the Neue Kunst in the Hagenbucher in Heilbronn. Dorothee Rocke has been a member of the German Association of Artists since 2003 . She was one of the 40 participants in the DKB project exhibition Herbarium of Views , which was shown in the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn. In the same year there was an exhibition in the Prinzhorn Collection in Heidelberg with works by Rock, which were to be understood as answers to the works by the mentally ill artist Hyacinth von Wieser (1848–1877) in the collection . A rock exhibition under the title Follow the Line took place in 2006 in the Goldhalle of the Hessischer Rundfunk in Frankfurt am Main. In 2009 she showed her latest work at the Morat Institute for Art and Art History, Freiburg / Br.

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SURNAME Rock, Dorothee
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel