Friedrich Gross (art historian)

Friedrich Gross (born November 5, 1939 ) is a German art historian and artist.

Life

Gross was born on the steamer " Steuben ", which lay in the roadstead off Riga (Latvia) in the course of the resettlement of the Germans . After graduating from high school, he studied psychology and philosophy at the universities of Tübingen, Hamburg and Freiburg im Breisgau until 1966 . On the side he trained himself in oil painting, drawing techniques and printmaking. After dropping out of his studies, he moved to Munich, where he worked as a freelance artist of “modern fantasy”, as he called the art movement. The gallery owner Richard P. Hartmann signed an exclusive contract with him in 1970. In 1974 he took a second degree in art history, modern German literature and classical archeology at the University of Hamburg.

The artistic work was stopped entirely in 1976. He received his doctorate in 1982. Until 1986 he was active in art history at the Hamburger Kunsthalle . He then worked on international exhibitions in cities in the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1988/1989 he was involved in the conception of the international exhibition “1789/1989. Two hundred years of the French Revolution ”in the then Staatliche Kunsthalle Berlin . For 1995 he organized an exhibition about Tomi Ungerer in the Wilhelm Busch Museum in Hanover and in the Ludwig Institute in Oberhausen.

Gross published books and essays on visual art from the 16th to 20th centuries. Since 2003 he has been active as a visual artist again. In 2007 the Museum for the Principality of Lüneburg organized a retrospective of the artist brothers Friedrich and Ulrich Gross under the title "Ars Fantastica". - The visual art of Friedrich Gross is determined by the literature, mythology of antiquity and borrowings from the historical fantasy of Hieronymus Bosch up to surrealism and "fantastic realism of the Viennese school".

He participated in the exhibition “art-imaginär 2009. Fantastic art. 3rd major international exhibition of fantastic and visionary art ”, Neustadt-Mußbach an der Weinstrasse, where works by Fabricio Clerici , Salvador Dalí , Ernst Fuchs , Rudolf Hausner and other artists of surrealism and fantastic realism were shown. Another exhibition "art imaginär" with the participation of the artist took place in 2011 in Neustadt-Mußbach. In 2013 the artist completed the painting 'SILVA - Dionysian World' (oil, opaque paint and zapon varnish on wood) for the collection “Phantastik in der Box” by Günter Westermann (Muggensturm near Rastatt); the characteristic of the collection is an open box with wooden sides, placed in the middle of the painting and continuing the painting.

Publications

• Contributions to works by Moritz von Schwind (1804–1871) in the following auction catalogs of the Villa Grisebach, Berlin, 19th century art: cat. 187, November 23, 2011 (No. 130), cat.-no. 193, May 30, 2012 (No. 138), cat.-no. 207, May 29, 2013 (No. 119, 121), cat.-no. 215, November 27, 2013 (No. 166), cat.-no. 222, May 28, 2014 (No. 181).
• Images of saints, How the iconography of the 19th century still shapes us , pp. 42–44, in: Rotary Magazin 12/2011, Hamburg.
• Creative eye of the modern age. Essays on Art. Jonas, Marburg 2007.
• Article Frese, Daniel . In: General Artist Lexicon. The visual artists of all times and peoples. Volume 44. Saur, Munich, Leipzig 2005, pp. 455-457, 1st column.
• Lutheran justice for an Apelles of Lüneburg? The neglected main work of Daniel Frese (1540? –1611) in the town hall of the salt city. In: Low German contributions to art history. Vol. 39, 2000, pp. 29-77.
• Johannes Nawrath. Siding. With an introduction by Friedrich Gross and picture comments by Michael Haupt. Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg 1997.
• Tomi Ungerer. The game is over. Work exhibition 1956–1995. Published by Hans-Joachim Neyer. Concept by Friedrich Gross in conjunction with Thérèse Viller. Strasbourg. Catalog Friedrich Gross. Jonas, Marburg 1995.
• Caspar David Friedrich. Harenberg, Dortmund 1994.
• Dieter Glasmacher . Vegetables have to shine. With a text by Friedrich Gross. Published by Claus Mewes for the Berliner Kunstverein Weissensee. Berlin 1993.
• CONCEPT ART - A PERSPECTIVE in the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg from May 16 to July 1, 1990. Texts: Waltraud Brodersen, Friedrich Gross, Claus Mewes. Print shop in St. Pauli, Hamburg 1990.
• Jesus, Luther and the Pope in the picture battle 1871 to 1918. On the history of painting during the imperial era. Jonas, Marburg 1989.
• People and masses - movers of history, in pictures since 1789. In: 1789/1989. Two hundred years of the French Revolution. Exhibition in the Staatliche Kunsthalle Berlin. Concept: Waltraud Brodersen, Friedrich Gross, Karl Janke, Claus Mewes, Hans Joachim Neyer. Berlin 1989, pp. 87-114.
• Eva and the future. The image of women since the French Revolution. Published by Werner Hofmann. Concept and catalog: Sigrun Paas and Friedrich Gross. Prestel, Munich 1986.
• Zdenek Felix (Ed.): Lovis Corinth 1858–1925. With contributions by Gerhard Gerkens , Friedrich Gross and Joachim Heusinger von Waldegg . DuMont, Cologne 1985.

literature

• Catalog of the exhibition “art-imaginary. 5th international exhibition of fantastic and visionary art ”in the Herrenhof. Neustadt-Mußbach an der Weinstrasse, September / October 2013. Color illustration of the painting “SILVA - Dionysian World” (2013) on p. 53.
• Habarta Lexicon of Fantastic Artists . New edition, Vienna 2013, article Friedrich Gross with color illus. a drawing (2012).
• Catalog of the exhibition “art-imaginary. Fantastic Art ”. Neustadt / Vienna 2011. Color illustration of a chalk lithograph.
• Catalog of the exhibition “art-imaginary. Fantastic Art ”. Munich / Neustadt 2009. Color illustration of a colored pencil drawing, short biography.
• Creative eye of the modern age. Essays on art by Friedrich Gross. Jonas, Marburg 2007, pp. 253-285.
• Article Gross, Friedrich, Dr., art and literary historian. In: Kürschner's German Non-Fiction Calendar 2001/2002. 1st year. Saur, Munich, Leipzig 2002, p. 137, 2nd column.
• Lexicon of Baltic German visual artists. 20th century. Kuno Hagen with the assistance of Margarete Hagen. Published by the Georg Dehio Society. Nottbeck, Cologne 1983, p. 49.
• Homage to Dalí. Edited by Richard P. Hartmann with the conversations between Alain Bosquet and Salvador Dalí. Nymphenburg, Munich 1974. - In it: Salvador Dalí. Homage in two full-page pen drawings. 1974, pp. 12/13.
• Die Brücke 40. An in-house magazine of the Pharmaceutical-Medical Department of the Farbwerke Hoechst AG, Frankfurt (Main) -Hoechst. Number 40, May 1970. - In it color images of the drawing “The Metaphysical Evil” (1968), colored pencil and pencil, p. 1 (2 cut-out illustrations) and p. 3 (full-page color illustrations).

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedrich Gross in the catalog of the German National Library