Eric Fischl
Eric Fischl (born March 9, 1948 in New York ) is a contemporary American painter , printmaker and sculptor of American realism .
biography
Eric Fischl grew up in Long Island . His artistic training, he first began at Phoenix Junior College, he led them to the Arizona State University and eventually moved to the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in Valencia , California, where he concluding in 1972 Bachelor of Fine Arts made . He then moved to Chicago , where he worked as an overseer at the Museum of Contemporary Art . In 1974 he got a job as a drawing teacher at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Canada . There he met his future wife, the painter April Gornik . In 1978 they moved to New York City together, where they work and live to this day.
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In contrast to the current trend, Fischl turned to representational painting. His topics are mostly from the family context, i. H. mostly (naked) people in couple relationships, often in a sexually heated atmosphere or characterized by fears and compulsions. The situations often indicate an action that is imminent or just happened and often point to the dark side of human existence. In contrast, there is a light, relaxed style of painting and a rather light color palette with yellow and red tones. Typical for Fischl are also sun-drenched settings and strong contrasts, which occasionally remind of Caravaggio in the light situation . Typical for this type of setting are: a. the paintings of the Krefeld project from 2002 or more recent works from 2008 that deal with the topic of the bullfight, the Corrida goyesca de Ronda .
After the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 , Eric Fischl designed the ten breaths series of works with gouaches and sculptures showing people falling and fallen. The sculpture Tumbling Woman , which depicts a woman in free fall, was, however, controversial in the United States. With this series of works he processed for himself the press photos of the desperate, who fell from the windows of the burning towers of the World Trade Center after the attacks in order to avoid death by fire.
Along with Lucian Freud and Maria Lassnig , Eric Fischl is one of the great representatives of figurative painting.
Eric Fischl's works are represented in many of the most important museums and public collections, including the Art Gallery of Ontario , the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as well as the Musée National d'Art Moderne and the Center Georges Pompidou in Paris.
Exhibitions
- 2014: Eric Fischl: Friends, Lovers and Other Constellations: A cross-section of the creative work in particular the graphic work, watercolors, bronze sculptures . Albertina (Vienna) , February 13, 2014 - May 18, 2014
- 2003: Blickachsen 4: Sculptures in the spa park Bad Homburg vdHöhe , May 18 - October 5, 2003
Honors
- 1994: Elected member ( NA ) of the National Academy in New York
- 2003: Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2006: Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Individual evidence
- ↑ Comeback of Ecstasy . In: Der Spiegel . No. 37 , 2003 ( online ).
- ↑ "Man is like a goulash". In: Spiegel Online. February 26, 2010, accessed December 4, 2014 .
- ↑ www.kettererkunst.de
- ^ Announcement on the exhibition ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 5, 2014
- ↑ Blickachsen 4 - Galerie Scheffel
- ↑ nationalacademy.org: Living Academicians "F" / Fischl, Eric, NA 1994 ( Memento of the original from August 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed June 29, 2015)
- ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter F. (PDF; 815 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved January 14, 2019 .
- ↑ Academy Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 14, 2019 .
literature
- Ralph Gibson : Nude. Interview by Eric Fischl. Taschen Verlag, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-8365-1189-6 .
Web links
- Website of Eric Fischl (English)
- Works by Eric Fischl at the Jablonka Gallery
- Eric Fischl at artcyclopedia
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fischl, Eric |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American painter and printmaker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 9, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City , New York, USA |