Kurt Kocherscheidt
Kurt Kocherscheidt (born July 6, 1943 in Klagenfurt , Austria; † November 13, 1992 in Wels , Upper Austria ) was an Austrian artist . He painted in oil and from 1986 also created wooden sculptures .
Life
Kurt Kocherscheidt was born in 1943 to Friedrich Kocherscheidt and Elisabeth Mayer. From 1953 to 1961 he attended the secondary school in Klagenfurt, where he began to be interested in geography and zoology, but also in art history. 1961 to 1965 he studied at the academies of fine arts in Vienna and in Zagreb . In 1966 he entered into a short marriage with the architecture student Angela Feuer.
In 1968 he founded the group Realities with Wolfgang Herzig , Martha Jungwirth , Peter Pongratz , Franz Ringel and Robert Zeppel-Sperl with a founding exhibition at the Vienna Secession .
From 1969 to 1971 Kocherscheidt lived in London . Here he began to sign his works with Kappa , which he reduced to a K from 1985 . In 1973 he married the photographer Elfie Semotan , with whom he has two sons.
In 1986 his works were exhibited in the Vienna Museum of the 20th Century . Two of his works were shown at DOCUMENTA IX in Kassel in 1992 . In the same year he had a solo exhibition at the Vienna Secession . Works by him can be seen in the Essl Museum in Vienna- Klosterneuburg .
The Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck showed from 2008 to 2009, a comprehensive exhibition of his paintings and sculptures, along with photographs of the artist and his workshop by Elfie Semotan.
Awards
Exhibitions
- 1973 Morat Institute, Freiburg im Breisgau
- 1986 Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna
- 1988 Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
- 1988 Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum , Eindhoven
- 1991 Museum van Hendaagse Kunst, Ghent
- 1992 Vienna Secession
- 1994 Westphalian Art Association, Münster
- 2003 The continuous picture , MAK , Vienna
- 2004 NEUE WILDE - A Development , Essl Museum - Contemporary Art, Klosterneuburg / Vienna
- 2007 Austria: 1900 - 2000. Confrontations and Continuities , Essl Museum - Contemporary Art, Klosterneuburg / Vienna
- 2008 Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck , Remagen
- 2008 Masterpieces from the Essl Collection , Essl Museum - Contemporary Art, Schömerhaus, Klosterneuburg / Vienna
- 2013 Kurt Kocherscheidt. In the flow of images: painting , Josef Albers Museum Quadrat , Bottrop
- 2017 Kurt Kocherscheidt, W&K - Wienerroither & Kohlbacher , Vienna
literature
- Franz Armin Morat : Kurt Kocherscheidt - catalog raisonné. Painting and woodwork 1966–1992. Springer, Vienna / New York 2006, ISBN 978-3-211-24489-0 . (Bibliography pp. 407-414).
- Franz Armin Morat : Kurt Kappa Kocherscheidt - drawings 1971-1976 , Freiburg i.Br. 1976. 1100 copies on the occasion of the exhibition in the FA Morat Collection, Freiburg i.Br., catalog pp. 97–101.
- Otto Breicha (Ed.): Kurt Kocherscheidt. Working on an extended natural history. Drawings and prints. 1967 to 1975. Graz 2000.
- Peter Noever (ed.): Kurt Kocherscheidt - the continuous picture. MAK, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-88375-713-6 . (Exhibition catalog, MAK Vienna, June 25 - October 5, 2003).
- Christian Reder: Researching ways of thinking. Essays on artistic work (on Kurt Kocherscheidt et al.), Edition Transfer by Springer, Vienna / New York 2004, ISBN 3-211-20523-3
- Klaus Gallwitz (Ed.): Augenecho. Kurt Kocherscheidt, painting. Elfie Semotan, photography. Richter, Düsseldorf 2008, ISBN 978-3-941263-00-0 . (Exhibition catalog, Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck October 17, 2008 - April 13, 2009).
Web links
- Literature by and about Kurt Kocherscheidt in the catalog of the German National Library
- Kurt Kocherscheidt on kunstaspekte.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Kurt Kocherscheidt | W&K gallery. Retrieved November 8, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kocherscheidt, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 6, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Klagenfurt |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 13, 1992 |
| Place of death | catfish |