Fred Kocks

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Fred Kocks (born January 24, 1905 in Ulm , † 1989 in Düsseldorf ) was a German landscape and figure painter, draftsman and lithographer as well as curator , museum director and author .

Life

Kocks studied painting with the Düsseldorf landscape painter Helmuth Liesegang . Study trips took him to the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Italy. As a loyal member of the NSDAP as well as protégé, “text designer and artistic collaborator” of the Düsseldorf Gauleiter Friedrich Karl Florian , he made a career in the Düsseldorf cultural administration in the 1930s. During this time he quickly rose to the position of curator of the municipal art collections in Düsseldorf and head of the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf . There he organized in particular the seasonal exhibitions of Düsseldorf artists.

At the same time he was still active as a painter. With the oil painting Sommeridyll am Bach he was represented at the Great German Art Exhibition in the House of Art in Munich in 1942 . In 1943 he presented his painting Am Schloßweiher there . In 1944 he was one of the selected representatives of art under National Socialism at the exhibition “ German Artists and the SS ” in Breslau .

After the death of the art historian Hans Wilhelm Hupp in 1943 he was appointed acting director of the municipal art collections. As such, he organized the exhibition “Arte contemporanea di Duesseldorf”, which took place in 1943 in the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence . His transfer to another department within the Düsseldorf administration took place in 1945 at the instigation of the British military government . In 1953 he was reinstated as her curator against the resistance of the art historian Werner Doede , who had taken over the management of the municipal art collections in 1945 and thwarted an attempt to relocate Kock in 1949. Kocks held this position until 1964.

With the landscape painters Albert Henrich and Fritz Köhler , to whose family there were close connections, Kocks was one of the founders of the Düsseldorf “Künstlergruppe 1949”.

Fonts (selection)

  • with Friedrich Karl Florian , Adolf Hitler and Konstantin von Neurath : Düsseldorfer Kunstmappe 1940 . Völkischer Verlag, Düsseldorf 1940.
  • Art exhibition for German soldiers. Contemporary artists exhibit . National Socialist Community Strength through Joy, Schwann Verlag, Düsseldorf 1941.
  • Exhibition of Düsseldorf artists . Culture Office of the City of Karlsbad, Karlsbad 1942.
  • Düsseldorf art exhibition. The Rhine and the Reich . Herzog-Anton-Ulrich-Museum, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig 1942.
  • Helmuth Liesegang. A Düsseldorf master of the present . Graf and Schumacher, Düsseldorf 1943.
  • with Hermann Schardt , Dolf Siebert and Oskar Söhn: West German graphic artists of the present . Graf and Schumacher, Düsseldorf 1944.
  • Düsseldorf contemporary artists . Exhibition catalog within the large rationalization exhibition “Everyone should live better”, Northwest German Exhibition Society, Art Museum Ehrenhof, Düsseldorf 1953.
  • Düsseldorf painter and sculptor for the past 50 years . Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, Düsseldorf 1965.
  • About art and artists in Düsseldorf. In: Fifteen painters from the Düsseldorf School. Exhibition catalog, HP Galerie Velbert-Langenberg, 1976.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016), (PDF)
  2. ↑ The sovereign . Volume 5, 1941, p. 19.
  3. ^ Great German art exhibition in 1942 in the House of Art in Munich . Exhibition catalog, Verlag F. Bruckmann, Munich 1942, p. 45, no. 538
  4. ^ Large German art exhibition in the Haus der Kunst in Munich . Exhibition catalog, Verlag F. Bruckmann, Munich 1943, p. 41, no. 467
  5. ↑ Gottlob Berger (ed.): German artists and the SS . Catalog for the exhibition in Breslau, Limpert, Berlin 1944.
  6. ^ Hermann Schardt (ed.): Arte contemporanea di Duesseldorf. Firenze. Arte contemporanea tedesca . Exhibition catalog, Düsseldorf 1943.
  7. ↑ Kay Heymer: The Art Collections of the City of Düsseldorf 1945–1953. Acquisition policy and exhibitions in the Werner Doede era. In: Julia Friedrich, Andreas Prinzing (eds.): “That's how you just started, without many words”. Exhibition and collection policy in the first years after the Second World War . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-034285-7 , p. 57. ( Google Books )
  8. ^ Hermann Schardt: Exhibition of the Düsseldorfer Künstlergruppe 1949 . Exhibition catalog, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf 1949.
personal data
SURNAME Kocks, Fred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape and figure painter, draftsman and lithographer as well as curator, museum director and author
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm
DATE OF DEATH 1989
Place of death Dusseldorf