Kurt Frank (painter)
Kurt Frank (* 1926 in Tübingen ; † 1995 there ) was a German painter .
Life
Kurt Frank was born in Tübingen in 1926. After an apprenticeship as a locksmith, he was drafted as a soldier. In 1945 he returned from British captivity. He attended the amber school , where he met Lothar Quinte, who was four years his senior . Roland Martin from Tuttlingen also played an important role as a friend and companion. In 1949 he moved to Dischinger's class at the art academy in Freiburg, but returned to the Bernstein School in 1951, where HAP Grieshaber was now teaching.
With Emil Kiess , Lothar Ouinte and Hans-Günter Schmidt, Kurt Frank worked from 1951 to 1954 on the “shadow games” that Grieshaber had suggested on the amber.
In 1958 Frank, Quinte and Martin exhibited their work influenced by Informel in a gallery in Bern . From 1959, Kurt Frank's structural images with their monochrome surfaces dominate.
This was followed in 1972 by the design of the “Staatsgalerie” and “ Neckartor ” underground stations in Stuttgart. Since 1973 he has created series, gouaches and paintings in tempera on paper or in mixed media. In 1977 he moved to Rottenburg am Neckar. From 1978 to 1979 he produced series of large-format tempera pictures on paper. In 1980 the construction of a tool for the perforation of paper followed as a new artistic means of expression and then since 1987 picture objects by perforation and folding. Kurt Frank designed new sand pictures in 1988. From 1989 to 1995 his work consisted of embossing, prints from cut and processed steel plates, as well as lacquer pictures on paper.
Kurt Frank died in Tübingen in 1995. His grave is in the cemetery of the Sülchenkirche in the Neckar valley below the Wurmlinger chapel.
In spring 2014, an exhibition "Kurt Frank - Works from the Estate" took place in the Zehntscheuer cultural center in Rottenburg am Neckar. In September 2014, works by Kurt Frank were on view in a joint exhibition “Three Bernstein Schoolchildren, Franz Bucher , Kurt Frank, Roland Martin ” in the Wohlhüter gallery in Leibertingen-Thalheim. From September 23 to November 4, 2018, the Tabak Gallery will be showing a comprehensive exhibition of the works of Kurt Frank in the Bürgerhaus in Renquishausen.
Awards
- 1972 Paul Bonatz Prize with Wilfried Beck-Erlang.
Art in public spaces and art in buildings
- 1966 Säckingen , Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche: glass window and back wall of the altar
- 1968 Bühl / Baden: Memorial for the victims of violence
- 1969 Tübingen , mountain cemetery, funeral hall: glass windows
- Sigmaringen , Building Department: enamel wall
- 1972 Freiburg im Breisgau , St. Albert-Bischofslinde: glass window and altar back wall,
- 1975 Neckarrems , school center: enamel work
literature
- Kurt Frank retrospective, Esslingen district, cultural office
- Exhibition Kurt Frank, Erich Hauser Walter Heckmann: Faltblatt, Galerie 61, Freiburg, 1960
- Exhibition Kurt Frank, Romuald Hengstler ; Emil Kiess, Felix Schlenker, Franz Bucher Roland Martin: Catalog, Kleine Galerie, Freiburg, 1964
- Bonin, Werner F .: Kurt Frank, works 1950 to 1977: catalog, Galerie Lutz, Stuttgart, 1977
- Breinlinger, Gerhart: The informal painter Kurt Frank, Neue Btx-Galerie, Südwest Presse, Ulm, 1983
- Schwöbel, H .: Painting 60/61 Kurt Frank: Catalog with photographs, photographs, at the same time Achalm print 12
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Frank, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tübingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1995 |
| Place of death | Tübingen |