Fritz Genkinger

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Fritz Genkinger (2003)

Fritz Genkinger (born June 17, 1934 in Tübingen ; † August 2, 2017 in Münsingen ) was a German artist . After his youth and apprenticeship in Nürtingen, he turned to art studies in Karlsruhe, where he was accepted into HAP Grieshaber's class with well-known artists such as Horst Antes , Heinz Schanz and Hans Martin Erhardt . Extensive and varied artistic work began, which lasted to the very end. His "Cosmic Figure", created from 1962 onwards, is characteristic of an artificial figure, reduced to the essentials, to "head and trunk". The "artificiality" of his figures is an essential means of expression, artificiality in the choice of color, in stylization and image detail. Fritz Genkinger's pictures are often polar pictures: passing, withering and breaking up, male and female, inside and outside, reason and emotion. The ambiguous and the complex are part of Fritz Genkinger's basic principles. He said: Science, our rational analytical view, is just a part of reality, it does not capture the whole, not the whole person, not all dimensions of life. The art goes on there. She sees, suspects more. Since 1995 he has lived in Böttingen , a district of Münsingen on the Swabian Alb, where he had set up his studio in the former schoolhouse.

biography

From 1950 to 1954 Genkinger completed an apprenticeship as a toolmaker and, after moving to Karlsruhe in 1957, began studying painting at the State Academy of Fine Arts with HAP Grieshaber and Herbert Kitzel . He initially worked artistically inspired by the Irish painter Francis Bacon . After completing his studies in 1968, he began to deal with subjects from the world of sports (football, athletics and gymnastics). He achieved his artistic breakthrough through an exhibition with his sports pictures at the Württembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart. There is a parable-like layer of meaning in the sports images. It is not just a matter of depicting the real. They are parables, metaphorical implementations of ideas about our existence. Allusions to the dramas in life that can be found in sport: elegant playfulness, overcoming obstacles, moving in space, struggling for victory, triumph and defeat. Genkinger's sports pictures often have a magical accentuation. The world of the mass idols is brought to view with the means of Pop Art . The artist is also interested in elementary color relationships.

In 1968 he also moved to Stuttgart and from 1970 to 1971 he was a professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart . From 1972 to 1973 a scholarship from the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris followed, as well as participation as an artist on the public Spielstrasse on the occasion of the XX. Olympic Games in Munich 1972 . In 1974 Genkinger moved to Rielingshausen near Marbach am Neckar and was commissioned to design three large posters for the Federal Press Office for the soccer world championship as well as 10 stamps for the soccer world championship for Paraguay.

Works from Böttinger marble

Wolfgang Ketterer, Stuttgart, later in Munich, became aware of him as the first large gallery and organized a successful solo exhibition on the occasion of the Olympic Games. In 1979/80 a portfolio with 12 original serigraphs on the subject of "football" was created for VfB Stuttgart . In 1975 and 1976 Genkinger toured South America: Argentina , Chile and Bolivia . The first works that processed the impressions of these trips were shown in 1977 in the gallery of Freerk C. Valentien in Stuttgart, who has since represented the artist in Stuttgart. When Genkinger moved his place of residence and work to Böttingen near Münsingen on the Swabian Alb in 1995, he discovered the Böttinger marble on his walks , which once the Württemberg Duke Karl Eugen a . a. had it dismantled for the interior of his New Palace in Stuttgart.

As a passionate collector, the artist owned the largest collection of different formations of this rock, the layered structure of which has encouraged him for many years to create so-called "layered pictures" of it. The Böttinger marble allowed Fritz Genkinger to find a completely new visual language. It is earth history turned to stone. And it is very similar with people. Fritz Genkinger states: With our personal individual story we are embedded in our family history, in the history of the cosmos, like the well-known doll in the doll. The layered images are human stories that have become images and art. Fritz Genkinger also dealt directly with the stone: he also sawed or ground all kinds of archaic figures (comparable to the " Venus von Willendorf ") and natural objects, stone flutes with very pure tones, amulets of timeless beauty. His great love for music brought the talented jazz trumpeter and flute player on his travels to South America a. a. with Argentinian Jaime Torres together, the most famous representative of the charango - music, for which he created an album cover.

Exhibitions

  • Pictures in public collections: Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin , Staatsgalerie Stuttgart , Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe , Kunstmuseum Stuttgart , Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Asunción / Paraguay.
  • 2017, Marbach am Neckar, Gallery Wendelinskapelle, March 24 - April 22, 2017
  • 2016, Herrenberg, Volksbank Herrenberg-Nagold-Rottenburg, October 7th - November 9th, 2016
  • 2016, Stuttgart, Galerie Valentien, 3 x 82. Moritz Baumgartl and Fritz Genkinger at Freerk Valentien , Jan. 23 - March 5, 2016
  • 2014, Gundelfingen, Galerie Geiselhart, stories from inside the “Wild Marble” , July 20
  • 2014, Karlsruhe, Städtische Galerie, Critical Observers , March 15 - July 6, 2014
  • 2013, Stuttgart, Galerie Valentien, Accrochage exhibition with works by Fritz Genkinger and other artists, June 11th - July 31st
  • 2012, Nürtingen, Forum Ilse and KH Türk eV, Fritz Genkinger - a retrospective , May 19 - June 30, 2012
  • 2006, Nürtingen, Galerie GASS, gallery of the Albert Schäffle School, October 21 - November 30, 2006
  • 2006, Stuttgart, Galerie Valentien, June 13 - August 26, 2006
  • 2004, Ehningen-Mochental, Ewald Karl Schrade Gallery, Mochental Castle, June 20 - August 15, 2004
  • 1992, Rottenburg am Neckar, Zehntscheuer Cultural Association, Fritz Genkinger Painting 1960–1990
  • 1990, Marbach am Neckar, town hall, gallery Wendelinskapelle
  • 1989, Heilbronn, Kunstverein, with U. Zeh and R. Döhl.
  • 1989, Ulm, TSG Söflingen
  • 1989, Ludwigsburg, Karlshöher Seminar
  • 1988, Haigerloch, castle gallery
  • 1987, Asperg, Glasperlenspiel
  • 1986, Reutlingen, Kreissparkasse
  • 1984, Brackenheim, Art in the Escape Gate
  • 1984, Tübingen, Tabula Gallery
  • 1984, Berlin, Matznick Gallery
  • 1984, Baunatal, town hall
  • 1984, Ludwigsburg, Kreishaus (retrospective)
  • 1983, Frankfurt am Main, House of Sports
  • 1981, Stuttgart-Untertürkheim, Small Gallery
  • 1980, Stuttgart, Baden-Württembergische Bank
  • 1980, Heilbronn, Baden-Württembergische Bank
  • 1977, Stuttgart, Galerie Valentien, pictures from South America , October 7th - 28th, 1977
  • 1976, Waiblingen, Rathaus (with A. Arndt and G. Stilling)
  • 1974, Haigerloch, Black Staircase Gallery
  • 1974, Stuttgart, Gallery of the City of Stuttgart
  • 1974, Singen, Galerie Kunsthäusle
  • 1973, Mannheim, The Gallery
  • 1973, Schwäbisch Gmünd, gallery in the Prediger
  • 1973, Bielefeld, Galerie John-Herden
  • 1973, Nürtingen, town hall
  • 1973, Stuttgart, Galerie Valentien
  • 1973, Meßkirch, high school
  • 1972, Zurich, interior gallery
  • 1972, Oldenburg, State Museum
  • 1972, Offenburg, Gallery RR
  • 1972, Helsinki, Pinx Gallery
  • 1972, Heidenheim, gallery in the old house
  • 1972, Constance, shop gallery
  • 1972, Wilhelmshaven, Kunsthalle, Man + Sport
  • 1972, Bonn, Villa Hammerschmidt
  • 1972, Munich, Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Fritz Genkinger. Painting - Graphic , Aug. 17 - Sept. 23, 1972
  • 1972, Heilbronn, Kunstverein
  • 1971, Zweibrücken, Edition Monika Beck
  • 1971, Bonn, bookstore König & Wolff
  • 1971, Essen, Assindia Gallery
  • 1971, Stuttgart, Galerie Valentien
  • 1970, Lübeck, Overbeck Society
  • 1970, Heidelberg, Rothe Gallery
  • 1970, Munich, Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer
  • 1970, Biberach, Braith and Mali Museum
  • 1970, Singing, Small Gallery
  • 1970, Crailsheim, Bücher-Baier
  • 1970, Wiesbaden, Zuta Gallery
  • 1970, Hanover, Galerie Brusberg (soccer)
  • 1969, Stuttgart, Württembergischer Kunstverein, paintings and drawings 1959–68 , Jan. 18 - March 2, 1969
  • 1969, Stuttgart, Galerie Valentien
  • 1969, Munich, Schöttle Art Cabinet
  • 1969, Freiburg / Br., Galerie Kröner
  • 1969, Braunschweig, Kunstverein
  • 1968, Mexico City, on the occasion of the Summer Olympic Games
  • 1967, Ravensburg, Altes Theater Gallery
  • 1967, Baden-Baden, State Art Gallery, 14 × 14
  • 1967, Waldshut, Gallery 3
  • 1966, Stuttgart, Senatore Gallery
  • 1965, Braunschweig, Galerie Schmücking
  • 1962–1965 each Munich, large art exhibition
  • 1961, Mannheim, youth center
  • 1961, Darmstadt, cellar gallery in the castle

Friends of Fritz Genkinger

In the summer of 2012, the Fritz Genkinger Circle of Friends was founded in order to document, research and make accessible to the public the painterly and sculptural work of Fritz Genkinger. In July 2019 the topping-out ceremony for the new Fritz Genkinger Kunsthaus in Marbach's old town was celebrated.

Reviews

"Fritz Genkinger is one of the most important painters in the Grieshaber circle."

- Stadtmuseum Tübingen In: Tübingen Advent Calendar. December 2011

swell

  • Film Deutschlandspiegel 213/1972 The football painter Fritz Genkinger (Filmothek Bundesarchiv https://www.filmothek.bundesarchiv.de/video/589752 )
  • Film by Bernd and Heidi Umbreit The path to wholeness: Fritz Genkinger and his pictures , Südfunk Stuttgart 1987
  • Film FH Reutlingen Prof. Boris Terpinc Art in architecture
  • Fritz Genkinger, painting 1960–1990 . Edited by the city of Marbach, exhibition catalog, Stuttgart 1990
  • Ulrich Sach: Böttinger marble. Fritz Genkinger Collection . Edited by the Fritz Genkinger Circle of Friends, Ubstadt-Weiher 2014, ISBN 978-3-89735-817-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fritz Genkinger has died. In: Marbacher Zeitung . August 4, 2017. Retrieved August 5, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Michael Hakenmüller: Fritz Genkinger, or: Who's Afraid of Football? In: Reutlinger Generalanzeiger. July 9, 2014, p. 13.
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Kermer : Data and images on the history of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart. Edition Cantz, Stuttgart 1988 (= improved reprint from: The State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart: a self-portrayal. Edition Cantz, Stuttgart 1988), no p. 13].
  4. ^ Fritz Genkinger. Paintings - Graphics , August 17 - September 23, 1972. Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, exhibition catalog 80.
  5. ↑ Ulrich Sach: Böttinger marble. Fritz Genkinger Collection. Ubstadt-Weiher 2014.
  6. ^ Wolfgang Alber: Playing field of art. Fritz Genkinger. In: Alblust. The Swabian Alb magazine. Reutlingen, issue 2; July 2014.
  7. ^ Nürtingen: Fritz Genkinger - a retrospective , accessed on December 13, 2012.
  8. ↑ Friends of Fritz Genkinger
  9. ↑ The new museum for everyone is taking shape . Marbacher Zeitung, July 30, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Genkinger, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen
DATE OF DEATH 2nd August 2017
Place of death Münsingen