Eleanor Koch

Eleonore Koch , also Lore Koch , (born April 2, 1926 in Berlin ; † August 1, 2018 in São Paulo ) was a German-Brazilian painter and sculptor .

Life

Koch was the younger of two daughters of the lawyer Ernst Koch and the psychoanalyst Adelheid Koch . After Hitler came to power, the Koch family emigrated to Brazil in 1936 and settled in São Paulo.

In 1943, at the age of seventeen, she entered the Escola de Belas Artes de São Paulo , today the Centro Universitário Belas Artes de São Paulo , but left it again soon. She learned bookbinding and worked as a bookseller for various booksellers in the immigrant environment such as the Livraria Nobel and the Editora e Livraria Kosmos .

She was equally interested in painting and sculpture and received artistic training privately from Yolanda Mohalyi (1909–1978), Elisabeth Nobiling (1902–1975), co-founder of abstract art in Brazil Samson Flexor (1907–1971) and, from 1947, from Bruno Giorgi (1905-1993). In 1949 she traveled to Paris and visited the studios of the painter Árpád Szenes and the sculptor Robert Coutin (1891-1965), where she continued her studies. In 1952 she returned to São Paulo and initially worked as an assistant set designer for the first Brazilian television station Rede Tupi .

Through the mediation of Geraldo de Barros (1923–1998) she worked as a secretary for Mário Schenberg , also known as an art connoisseur at the time, and César Lattes at the Universidade de São Paulo (USP). At the USP, she worked in the university's documentation service from 1952 to the 1960s, taking care of the photographs of the biennials and the Brazilian Baroque. Through her mother, she became acquainted with the art critic, collector and psychoanalyst Theon Spanudis (1915–1985), who introduced her to the painter Alfredo Volpi (1896–1988), whose pupil she became. Volpi had a great influence on his only pupil, she showed a direction that art critics in Brazil have little explored. At first glance, there are similarities in her work with the Italian Pittura metafisica . The critic Theon Spanudis identified a certain sacralization in the representation of objects. These “pierce” the color planes of the landscapes and still lifes with solid lines and thus distance themselves from the figures of Giorgio De Chirico . Koch did not follow the development of figuration towards abstraction, which characterizes the influential artists here.

In 1966 she came to Europe again. In London , after a few rejections, she found the Mercury Gallery , which she exhibited in the same year, and in 1968 she settled in London for the next two decades. There she met the wealthy art collector Alistair McAlpine , who supported her as a sponsor for seven years. As an additional acquisition, she became a Portuguese interpreter for Scotland Yard in 1976 . In 1989 she returned to Brazil, and in her painting she turned increasingly to landscapes and colors.

Her exhibition activities began in 1948 at the 54th Salão Nacional de Belas Artes in Rio de Janeiro. After applying for participation in the São Paulo Biennale several times without success, it was exhibited there for the first time in 1959, a total of five times until the 9th Biennale in 1967. In 1979 it was shown at the exhibition of the Theon Spanudi's art collection in the Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo (MAC / USP) co-exhibited, organized in memory of his donations to the museum.

She attracted more attention in artistic circles than “ artist of the artist ” and less among the general public, despite having participated in the biennale five times. It has received greater attention in recent years from the publisher Charles Cosac , who in 2013 published an illustrated monograph with texts by the art critic Paulo Venancio Filho for the publisher Cosac Naify .

She died on August 1, 2018 at the age of 92 in São Paulo.

Exhibitions

1948: 54th Salão Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro
1948: Group exhibition, Galeria Domus, São Paulo
1952: Eleonore Koch , Galeria Ambiente, São Paulo
1952: 2nd Salão Paulista de Arte Moderna , São Paulo

to

1956: 5th Salão Paulista de Arte Moderna, São Paulo
1956: Eleonore Koch , Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (MAM / SP)
1957: 6th Salão Paulista de Arte Moderna, São Paulo

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1958: 7th Salão Paulista de Arte Moderna, São Paulo
1959: 5th Bienal Internacional de São Paulo
1960: Eleonore Koch , Petite Galerie, Rio de Janeiro
1960: Eleonore Koch , Galeria São Luís, São Paulo
1961: 10th Salão Nacional de Arte Moderna , Rio de Janeiro
1961: 6th Bienal Internacional de São Paulo
1962: Seleção de Obras de Arte Brasileira da Coleção Ernesto Wolf , Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (MAM / SP)
1963: 7th Bienal Internacional de São Paulo
1964: Eleonore Koch , Seta Galeria de Arte, São Paulo
1965: Exposição do acervo da Galeria Goeldi , Galeria Goeldi, Rio de Janeiro
1965: 8th Bienal Internacional de São Paulo
1966: Group exhibition, Mercury Gallery, London
1967: 9th Bienal Internacional de São Paulo
1968: Group exhibition, Redmark Gallery, London
1978: Construtivistas e Figurativos da Coleção Theon Spanudis , Centro de Artes Porto Seguro, São Paulo
1979/80: Coleção Theon Spanudis , Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo
1981: Arte Transcendente , Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (MAM / SP)
1982: Arteder 82: Feria de Arte Contemporáneo , Bilbao , Spain
1986: Volpi Permanência e Matriz: 7 artistas de São Paulo , São Paulo and Galeria Montesanti, Rio de Janeiro
1999: 6th Salão de Artes e Antiguidades, São Paulo
2003: Natureza Morta , group exhibition, São Paulo
2009: Eleonore Koch , Centro Universitário Maria Antonia, São Paulo
2010: Paisagem Incompleta: projeto de uma nova paisagem , group exhibition, Fundação Clóvis Salgado, Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte
2011: Modernismos no Brasil , Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo
2013: 30 X Bienal: Transformações na Arte Brasileira da 1ª à 30ª edição , Fundação Bienal, São Paulo
2018: Mínimo, múltiplo, comum , Estação Pinacoteca , Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo , group exhibition together with Amadeo Lorenzato (1900–1995), Chen Kong Fang (1931–2012), Marina Rheingantz (* 1983), Patricia Leite (* 1955 ) and Vânia Mignone (* 1967)

literature

4. Salão Paulista de Arte Moderna, 1955, São Paulo. São Paulo: Galeria Prestes Maia, 1955.
Roberto Pontual: Dicionário das artes plásticas no Brasil. Rio de Janeiro: Civilização Brasileira, 1969, p. 291.
Carlos Cavalcanti (Ed.): Dicionário brasileiro de artistas plásticos. Brasília: MEC / INL, 1974. Volume 2: D a L, pp. 43-44.
Coleção Theon Spanudis: doação para o acervo do Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo. São Paulo: MAC / USP, 1980.
Art transcendente: exposição de pintura. São Paulo: MAM, 1981.
Volpi: permanência e matriz, 7 artistas de Sao Paulo. São Paulo: Montesanti Galleria, 1986.
José Roberto Teixeira Leite: Dicionário crítico da pintura no Brasil. Rio de Janeiro: Artlivre, 1988.
Volpi. São Paulo: Cosac & Naify, 1999. (Espaço da arte brasileira).
Lore Koch. São Paulo, Cosac Naify 2013, ISBN 978-85-405-0347-2 . (Contains: Chronological catalog raisonné p. 13–60, bibliography p. 254–255)

Web links

Eleonore Koch in the Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural (Brazilian Portuguese)
Antonio Gonçalves Filho: Eleonore Koch e sua pintura intimista. In: Galeria Estadão.com.br. 2004, archived from the original on August 30, 2004 ; Retrieved December 9, 2017 (Brazilian Portuguese, with photo gallery).

Individual evidence

^ Marlen Eckl: This tear remains forever ...: German-Jewish refugee children and youth in Brazil (1933-45). Resettlement, acculturation, integration . In: Simone Gigliotti, Monica Tempian (Eds.): The Young Victims of the Nazi Regime: Migration, the Holocaust, and Postwar Displacement . Bloomsbury, London 2016, ISBN 978-1-4725-2711-0 ( books.google.ca ).
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Audrey Furlaneto: Eleonore Koch, discípula de Volpi, tem vida e obra reunidas em livro . In: O Globo . July 24, 2013 (Portuguese, globo.com [accessed December 8, 2017]).
↑ Patrik von zur Mühlen: Brazil, German Exile in . In: Thomas Adam (Ed.): Germany and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History . Santa Barbara, Calif .: ABC-CLIO. Volume 3 (O-Z), pp. 172-175, here p. 175. ISBN 1-85109-628-0 .
↑ Aos 92 anos, more a artista plástica e discípula de Volpi, Eleonore Koch . In: Folha de S. Paulo . August 1, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese, com.br [accessed August 2, 2018]).

personal data
SURNAME	Koch, Eleanor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Cook, lore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-Brazilian painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	April 2, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	August 1, 2018
Place of death	São Paulo

[Eckl-1] Marlen Eckl: This tear remains forever ...: German-Jewish refugee children and youth in Brazil (1933-45). Resettlement, acculturation, integration . In: Simone Gigliotti, Monica Tempian (Eds.): The Young Victims of the Nazi Regime: Migration, the Holocaust, and Postwar Displacement . Bloomsbury, London 2016, ISBN 978-1-4725-2711-0 ( books.google.ca ).

[Globo-2] Audrey Furlaneto: Eleonore Koch, discípula de Volpi, tem vida e obra reunidas em livro . In: O Globo . July 24, 2013 (Portuguese, globo.com [accessed December 8, 2017]).

[3] Patrik von zur Mühlen: Brazil, German Exile in . In: Thomas Adam (Ed.): Germany and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History . Santa Barbara, Calif .: ABC-CLIO. Volume 3 (O-Z), pp. 172-175, here p. 175. ISBN 1-85109-628-0 .

[4] Aos 92 anos, more a artista plástica e discípula de Volpi, Eleonore Koch . In: Folha de S. Paulo . August 1, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese, com.br [accessed August 2, 2018]).