Gérard Koch
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Gérard Koch (born March 10, 1926 in Kaiserslautern , † March 31, 2014 in Paris ) was a Franco-German artist .
Life
Gérard Koch was born Günther Manfred Julius Koch in 1926 in Kaiserslautern as the son of the Jewish grain trader Eugen Koch and Amalie Eskles from Zweibrücken. He grew up in Zweibrücken . In 1938 he was able to flee from the Nazis to France on a Rothschild children's transport. There he was adopted by a French family. Koch completed an apprenticeship as a cabinet maker in Toulouse before emigrating to Israel in 1944 . Eventually the artist moved to Paris in 1950, where he lived until his death in 2014.
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From 1944 to 1950, Gérard Koch first learned sculpture from Moshe Zahl in Israel . From 1950 to 1956 he studied modeling at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris with Emmanuel Auricoste and sculpture with Henri Laurens and Ossip Zadkine . He was also the studio manager at Auricoste and Zadkine. In the 1950s he initially worked figuratively. Abstract-geometric sculptures made of wood, glass and metal have been created since the early 1970s.
Awards
- 1965 Ford Foundation scholarship
- 2010 Prize of the Simone and Cino del Duca Cultural Foundation , Académie des Beaux-Arts , Paris
Exhibitions
- 1956 Gérard Koch , Galerie La Spirale, Paris
- 2002 Gérard Koch , Galerie Bruno Delarue, Paris
- 2004 Gérard Koch , Theodor-Zink-Museum , Kaiserslautern
- 2011 spatial sequences , Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate, Mainz
- 2012 Room Sequences , Museum Pachen, Rockenhausen
literature
- Gérard Koch , Editions Vers les Arts, Paris 1994
- Koch, Gérard. In: Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionary of Artists. Gründ, Paris 2006, Volume 7, p. 1390, ISBN 2-7000-3077-X .
- Valère Bertrand: Gérard Koch ou la vibration idéale ... = or an ideal vibration. In: Cimaise. Magazine d'art contemporaine. Paris. Vol. 46 (1999), No. 262, pp. 25-32, ISSN 0009-6830 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Gérard Koch in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website Gérard Koch (French)
- Freefall
- Moving moments with Gérard Koch
- Gérard Koch, sculpteur
Individual evidence
- ↑ Palatine sculptor Gérard Koch dead . In: Die Rheinpfalz , April 23, 2014
- ^ Exhibition in the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament
- ↑ The artist's biography in the Encyclopédie audiovisuelle de l'art contemporain
- ^ Prix de la Fondation Simone et Cino del Duca
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Koch, Gérard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Koch, Günther Manfred Julius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-French sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 10, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kaiserslautern |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 31, 2014 |
| Place of death | Paris |