Gerd Frick (artist)

Gerd Frick (born January 4, 1948 in Schwerin ) is a German painter and graphic artist. The artist, who lives in Neubrandenburg and whose work focuses on color graphics , also deals with art in public spaces .

Life

Gerd Frick grew up in Uelitz . After attending school, Gerd Frick learned the painting trade from 1964 to 1966 and then studied at the University of Applied Arts in Heiligendamm until 1969 . He then worked as an equipment manager and color designer until 1976. From 1976 to 1981 he studied painting at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art .

Gerd Frick has been living and working as a freelance painter and graphic artist in Neubrandenburg since 1981. In 1993 he worked in Glasgow on a working scholarship . He received the art scholarship from the city of Neubrandenburg in 1995. In the following year he took part in the “Euromiljo 96” project in Gladsaxe , Denmark . In 1998 he received the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania State Scholarship . In 2001 he took part in the international ice cream plein air in Petrozavodsk . The following year he participated in the art symposium “Farver i Parken” in Denmark.

Gerd Frick opened the studio gallery “Gloria” in Neubrandenburg in 2003. The city paid tribute to him on the occasion of his 60th birthday with an exhibition in the Neubrandenburg art collection . He is a member of the Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania Artists' Association .

Works

In addition to the city and the Neubrandenburg art collection, works by Gerd Frick are owned by the Mecklenburg Lake District , the Schwerin State Museum and the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Parliament .

In public space and as art in architecture , he realized works of art on or in the following objects:

• 1993 spatial object “mezzo mezzo forte piano” chamber music hall, music school Neubrandenburg
• 1996 Art object, Friedland high school
• 1999 Stepping stones, Treptower Straße, Neubrandenburg
• 1999 Fountain I and II, Stargard Castle market square
• 2000 Bank property and lying stones, north bank of Tollensesee , Neubrandenburg
• 2002 “Stations of Life” , room installation with large-format graphics, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock
• 2004 Artist Pleinair Findling "Zeitzeugen-Spurensuche" , Denkmalhof Liepen eV, Wolde
• 2005 Freiraumplastik, Evangelical Elementary School St. Marien, Neubrandenburg
• 2005 "aerial photo" , room installation, Bundeswehr location Sanitz
• 2007 city center column, church square, Gnoien , competition from 2002
• 2008 “Einsteinspur” , free space sculptures, Albert Einstein High School, Neubrandenburg

literature

• City of Neubrandenburg (Ed.): Gerd Frick - Sehstücke. Catalog for the exhibition in the art collection Neubrandenburg from May 24th. until June 29, 2008 . Art Collection Neubrandenburg, Neubrandenburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-939779-11-7

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Art collection shows special show for Gerd Frick's 60th birthday  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at artefacti.de  
2. ↑ Gerd Frick, Sehteile, May 24, 2008 - June 29, 2008
3. ↑ Gerd Frick ( Memento of the original from March 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at kuenstlerbund-mv.de  
4. ↑ Kunst am Bau ( Memento of the original from August 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

• Literature about Gerd Frick in the state bibliography MV
• Biography (until 2002, PDF , 17 kB)