Fritz Hörauf

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Fritz Hörauf (born April 17, 1949 in Eggenfelden ) is a German painter , draftsman , etcher and sculptor , whose architectural designs were partially realized.

Portrait photo of Fritz Hörauf in front of his picture "The stairs"

Life

Fritz Hörauf has lived in Munich since 1968, where he studied painting with Adolf Hartmann and Mac Zimmermann at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts and at the same time studied art history , philosophy and archeology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . His work includes imaginary portraits , inner landscapes , visionary temples and temple cities, with sculpture , painting and architecture interpenetrating each other. An example of this can be seen in the funeral hall in Eggenfelden, built in 1981–1983, in which the artist transferred a vision that seems to have come from his pictures into three-dimensional space. In cooperation with the well-known Augsburg stucco company Schnitzer, Fritz Hörauf modeled a building whose facade resembles a sculpture, designed the interior with a dome, chandeliers and crystal cross, as well as the entire square in front of it with fountains, benches and urn houses. His bronze sculptures are integrated into an overall architectural structure in several places, such as the “winged lizard, guardian of a boundary stone” in the spa gardens in Garmisch-Partenkirchen on the driveway to the Michael-Ende-Museum. A large painting, drawing and graphic work is juxtaposed with bronze sculptures, architectural models, as well as medals and sacred objects, such as E.g. the kitchen master's goblet in the cloister of the RothenburgMuseum in Rothenburg ob der Tauber .

Work process

The bowl, 2006, oil on canvas, 98 × 83 cm

The artist's mindset is related to the Orphic and Neoplatonic ideas . He himself writes about the creation of his works: “I see painting and drawing as a kind of release. This can be compared to a fog that only slowly, gradually, dissolves and reveals the landscape behind it. The white of the canvas or the paper would correspond to the fog. Making an invisible world visible is not a mechanical process, as is the case with a medium, but a constant dialogue, an exchange, a struggle for form. The resulting pictures do not pursue any intention in the sense of an ideology , they do not want to tell anything that could be expressed in words, they do not illustrate anything. Rather, they are conversations with beings who live in a different rhythm of space and time and can embody themselves as plants or animals, as landscapes or human faces. ”( Fritz Hörauf : paintings, drawings, sculptures, architecture, 2012).
Fritz Hörauf's works are rooted in the long tradition of visionary art. “He travels through time - including primeval times , the bardo, antiquity and the timeless. The paths he has covered distill the one moment that he struggles for in his pictures. The seemingly harmonious paintings are preceded by overpainting and warping, on which they are based in the form of several layers. As if he were repeatedly submitting to an alchemical process that confronts him with obstacles that separate him from a precisely observed form. ”( Barbara Weber : paintings, drawings, sculptures, architecture, 2012).

Major works

The stairs, 1998, oil on canvas, 92 × 46 cm
  • Landscape with frogs, 1969, oil on canvas, 70 × 100 cm
  • At the Abyss, 1971, oil on wood, 55 × 37 cm
  • St. Georg , 1972, oil on panel, 51 × 43 cm
  • The Birth of Horus , 1974, oil on canvas, 110 × 150 cm
  • Osiris Triptychon , 1974, oil on wood, 168 × 75 cm
  • The Unicorn's Garden, 1975, oil on canvas, 70 × 70 cm
  • The Other Land, 1979, oil on canvas, 145 × 230 cm
  • The Valley of the Shepherds, 1988, oil on canvas, 138 × 194 cm
  • Funeral hall in Eggenfelden, 1980–1983
  • Arcadian landscape, 1989, oil on canvas, 38 × 92 cm
  • The Seer, 1991, oil on canvas, 100 × 78 cm
  • Winged lizard, guardian of a boundary stone, 1991, bronze, height 45 cm
  • Portrait of three beings, 1992, oil on canvas, 190 × 144 cm
  • At the Temple of the Winds, 1994, oil on canvas, 92 × 137 cm
  • The stairs, 1998, oil on canvas, 92 × 46 cm
  • The bowl, 2006, oil on canvas, 98 × 83 cm
  • Emanation, 1996, bronze, 71 cm

Exhibitions (selection)

Funeral hall in Eggenfelden, 1980–1983, length 21 m, width 13.5 m, height 7.5 m
  • Galerie Delfs am Hofgarten, Munich, 1974
  • Rathaus Galerie Landshut, 1977, 1985, 1991
  • Hennemann Gallery, Bonn, 1978
  • Ursulinenhof , Linz, Austria, 1979
  • Kunstverein Passau , 1978, 1985
  • Galerie Christoph Dürr, Stuckvilla, Munich 1983
  • International Images, Pittsburgh, USA, 1984
  • Gallery of the Bayerische Landesbank, Munich, 1993
  • Richard P. Hartmann Gallery, Munich, 1999
  • Open Center Gallery, New York City, 1993
  • Tuscan pillared hall, Augsburg, 2000
  • Reinbek Castle , Hamburg, 2004
  • Schlossökonomie Gern, 2002, 2007
  • Reichsstadtmuseum, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, 2009
  • Herrenhof, Mussbach near Neustadt, 2012
  • Market Gallery, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, 2011

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personal data
SURNAME Listen up, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Eggenfelden