Karl-Heinz Franke (painter)
Karl-Heinz Franke (born June 22, 1916 in Berlin ; † January 3, 2006 ) was a German painter and sculptor .
Life
Karl-Heinz Franke was born in Berlin in 1916 and grew up in Zerbst . Between 1932 and 1937 he trained as a theater painter at the Dessau State Theater and studied painting at the Technical College in Dessau under Professor Wilhelm Danz and Professor Albrecht.
After military and military service and subsequent imprisonment, he worked from 1946 as a set designer at the “Theater of Youth”. In 1949 he became a student of Professor Willi Baumeister at the Art Academy in Stuttgart .
As early as 1950 he joined the artist group “Süd West” and in 1955 the artist group Der Rote Reiter , which was founded in 1945. In their exhibition in 1950, both the Expressionists such as Heckel, Rohlfs, Campendonk and Pechstein as well as the abstract art artists Baumeister , Ackermann, Kerkovius and Thomas Schubert showed.
In addition to his activities at various theaters in south-west Germany, Karl-Heinz Franke worked from 1951 to 1980 as a permanent set designer and head of equipment at the Komödie im Marquardt in Stuttgart and at SDR television , but developed in parallel with the basic conviction of the artist group “Rote Reiter “Correspondingly, beyond naturalism and materialism , behind the world of appearances in artistic struggle the true abstract expression of spatial disillusionment. In this respect, as Günter Wirth put it, he was the thinker of the surface.
In the sixties, Karl-Heinz Franke also developed his stainless steel objects reflecting the room, which attracted a great deal of attention in 1979 due to his "stainless steel column forest in front of the Stuttgart Liederhalle".
From 1974 to 1981 he was artistic director of the gallery in the Kolping House in Stuttgart.
In 1982 he moved to Bad Liebenzell .
In 1984 he founded the Constructive Tendencies group .
Karl-Heinz Franke died on January 3, 2006 and left behind a complete oeuvre of around 450 - 500 oil paintings , 150 graphics and 70 plastic works. In addition, an innumerable number of serial graphics and sketches.
Exhibitions
- Solo exhibitions: Augsburg, Belgium, Berlin, Erlangen, Esslingen, France, Jerusalem, Karlsruhe, Austria, Switzerland, Stuttgart, USA.
- Group exhibitions: Berlin, France, Italy, Cairo, Cologne, Munich, Nuremberg, Switzerland, USSR, USA.
gallery
literature
- Gunther Petzhold: Stuttgart artists make headlines in America , Stuttgart life 1970.
- Swabian painter's dictionary, Kunsthaus Dr Nagel, Stuttgart 1975
- Lucie Schauer: May 1st, Salon 1976 , Haus am Lützowplatz, Förderkreis Berlin 1976
- KH Franke: Remanit reflects life . In: "Journal of Thyssen Edelstahlwerke" 1978
- Magdalena Droste; KH Franke: 'There'. In: "Journal of the cultural community in the DGB", Stuttgart 1980
- Günther Wirth: Art in the German Southwest from 1945 to the present , Hatje Verlag, Stuttgart 1982
- Ebergard Au: Abstraction as a program . In: "Mercedes Benz - All over the world", No. 3, 1986
- Cover picture from "Deine Bahn", organ of the Association of German Railway Schools, No. 08/86
- Kreissparkasse Calw, Annual Report 1987 (fountain in front of the branch in Bad Liebenzell)
- ZYMA No. 4/89
- Dankmar Trier: Franke, Karl-Heinz . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 44, Saur, Munich a. a. 2005, ISBN 3-598-22784-1 , p. 74.
Web links
- Short biography on the website of the city of Stuttgart
- Exhibition brochure Constructive Tendencies, March 19 - May 1, 2006, Städtische Galerie Ochsenhausen
- Picture of the stainless steel column forest (1979) at SkulpTour Stuttgart
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl-Heinz Franke. In: Constructive tendencies from Germany's southwest: squares. City of Ochsenhausen, accessed on May 1, 2015 .
- ^ Franke, Karl-Heinz. From: stuttgart.de , accessed on May 1, 2015 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Franke, Karl-Heinz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 22, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 3, 2006 |