Fritz Koch (painter)

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Fritz Koch (* 1951 in Schwarmstedt ) is a German draftsman and painter . He lives and works in Hamburg .

Life

Fritz Koch studied from 1973 to 1981 at the art colleges in Hamburg with Rudolf Hausner and in Braunschweig, among others with Malte Sartorius , from 1980 as a master student . From 1978 to 1980 he was a fellow of studienstiftung . 1981–82 he studied at St. Martin's School of Art in London.

Various exhibitions were dedicated to his work, for example in 1991 in the Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg and in 2001 in the Emslandmuseum Schloss Clemenswerth in Sögel, and in 1993 in the Städtische Galerie im Park Viersen .

In 1994 he received the " Joseph and Anna Fassbender Prize" from the city of Brühl.

plant

Landscape (potatoes) , pencil on cardboard, 1990/91, 28.5 × 33 cm

There are several oil / acrylic paintings by Fritz Koch. But he primarily works with pencil on paper. This results in highly differentiated, detailed, partly large-format, "flawless" exhibits, which are also referred to as graphite pictures.

Motifs

Behind Tobolsk , drawing on cardboard (2017/18), 20.9 cm × 20.9 cm

Koch's preferred motifs include sections of modern agricultural landscapes (corn, beet, potato fields, etc.), as well as imaginations of “extensive primeval conditions”, that is, landscapes without traces of human intervention. This subject area includes works such as “ Tunguska ” (2015) and “Behind Tobolsk ” (2017–18).

In addition, there are individual objects from flora and fauna, which here, in the physical-chemical process of their decay, seem to float between microcosm and macrocosm . Dissolution and formation are represented as a mutually dependent process, as a natural cycle in which organisms change their shape, dissolve in order to produce something new.

Under the heading “Cosmos in the dirt” Dieter Asmus describes the shapes and textures of Koch's work. He speaks of the “microcosm of earth structures” that opens up and makes the viewer think more about space the closer he gets to the picture. In the illustration of a disintegrating puffballs from the year 2018 that the name " Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko" ( Churyumov-Gerasimenko bears), this aspect is addressed in the title. Koch also verbally expresses that it is about the fixation of all-encompassing, universal structures that develop in interstellar processes as well as in the gradual dissolution of a Bovist.

meaning

Komet (Churyumov-Gerasimenko) , drawing on cardboard (2018), 23.0 cm × 23.2 cm

His works bring together aesthetic perception and scientific findings, so that contemporary landscape images are created. The writer Brigitte Kronauer : "But the fantasy of today's natural science in connection with the ´factum of possible mortality´ of all beings and their change of form has probably never been as clear as with this draftsman."

Exhibitions

Important exhibition participations (in addition to the above-mentioned solo exhibitions)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heiner Altmeppen : “On the work of Fritz Koch”, in: Exhibition catalog, Städtische Galerie im Park Viersen , 1993
  2. ↑ Armin Schreiber: When it flashes - About the art experience in the neurobiological age. In: Mercury. No. 721, June 2009, p. 494
  3. ↑ Siegfried K. Lang: "Real Artifacts - Artificial Realities", in: Catalog for the exhibition "Nordbild-Noordbeeld", Landesmuseum Oldenburg, Drents Museum, Assen, Ndl., 1992, pp. 22-24
  4. ↑ Dieter Asmus : Cosmos in the dirt. In: Kunstzeitung. No. 11/2009, p. 23
  5. ↑ Armin Schreiber: Fritz Koch, "Weltbild im Maisfeld", in: Kunstpaternoster (see web links)
  6. ↑ Brigitte Kronauer : "Bauernhöft", in: "Ut pictura poesis - picture descriptions - writers about pictures in the Hamburger Kunsthalle", Hamburg, 2009, p. 19
  7. ↑ See catalog for the exhibition “Stillleben”, “Städtische Galerie im Park Viersen”, 2006, without pagination

Bibliography

  • Armin Schreiber: There, beetroot - painters paint, realistically too. In: MERKUR. German magazine for European thinking, issue 12, 57th year, Stuttgart 2003, p. 1154.

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personal data
SURNAME Koch, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman and painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwarmstedt