Hans Friedrich (painter, 1939)

Hans Friedrich (born December 4, 1939 in Nuremberg ) is a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Hans Friedrich, born in Nuremberg, grew up in the Sonthofen district . He passed his Abitur in 1960 in Oberstdorf , after which he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich until 1966 . There he was a student of Professor Ernst Geitlinger and Georg Meistermann . Hans Friedrich lives and works in Munich and Italy .

Pictures by Hans Friedrich can be found in the Neue Pinakothek Munich , the Lenbachmuseum Munich , the Westphalian State Museum and the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen .

Study trips took Hans Friedrich to the Middle East ( Turkey , Iran , Syria , Lebanon ), North Africa ( Egypt , Sudan , Morocco ) and overseas ( USA , Canada and Mexico ).

style

Friedrich cultivates realistic painting. His landscapes are mostly associated with disruptive elements (red rod, tracks in the snow).

"Such traces and structures not only create vitality, but are also injuries that humans constantly inflict on nature"

- Hans Friedrich

Honourings and prices

• European Prize for Painting, Ostend (1969, 1976, 1978, each bronze medal)
• Promotion Prize for Fine Arts of the City of Munich (1978)
• Water Lily Prize of the City of Munich (2007)
• Art Prize of the City of Sonthofen (2011)

Memberships

Hans Friedrich is a member of the following associations:

• New Group - Haus der Kunst Munich (President from 1999 to 2006)
• German Association of Artists
• Ingolstadt Art Association

Exhibitions

• Visual works from five decades - the retrospective , Kunsthaus Villa Jauss , Oberstdorf, October 2010
• The Southern (2011)

Web links

• Homepage of Hans Friedrich
• Article about Hans Friedrich von Gunther le Maire from the series Die Abgewanderten

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The retrospective at Villa Jauss, Oberstdorf ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
2. ↑ The invitation to the retrospective
3. ^ The exhibition Die Südliche