Lutz Fritsch

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Lutz Fritsch (born August 23, 1955 in Cologne ) is a German draftsman , sculptor , photographer and polar traveler.

Life

From 1976 to 1982 Lutz Fritsch studied sculpture at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . In 1984 he received a grant from the Kulturkreis des Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie (BDI), and two years later a work grant from the Kunstfonds Bonn Foundation . In 1995/1996 he was teaching at the Art Academy in Münster .

Rhine orange (1992) - Duisburg

Fritsch lives in Cologne and works as an artist with colored sculptures indoors and outdoors. His photographs show the sculptor's view of spatial conditions, urban situations, while his drawings deal with the space seen and experienced. With the outdoor sculptures, Lutz Fritsch wants to draw attention to things that have always been overlooked, make people aware of what has been known for a long time, and create new locations for events. The sculptures structure existing spaces and define new spaces. They should be points of orientation, landmarks in urban space, such as B. "Process - State" in Bonn in front of the Schumann House , " Rhine Orange " at the confluence of the Rhine and Ruhr in Duisburg , " The State of Things " in Pforzheim or his " Library in the Ice " .

Lutz Fritsch is a member of the German Association of Artists .

Exhibitions (selection)

Works

Since 1990 Lutz Fritsch has been working on a hand-made series "Postcards don't lie". He placed his slender, red sculptures in the middle of the landscape on old postcards that he discovered at flea markets and second-hand bookshops. The small collages appear as if the steles were real, if they belonged to the panoramas shown.

In September 2008, the two-part large-scale sculpture in the middle of the location was erected at the beginning and end of the Cologne-Bonn federal motorway 555 . This work consists of two identical, 50-meter-high red steles which, as modern obelisks, represent a symbol of the solidarity between the cities of Cologne and Bonn that can be seen from afar .

literature

  • Gisela Clement (Ed.): Clearing. Uwe Schröder, Werner Haypeter, Lutz Fritsch , with contributions by Stephan Berg, Andreas Denk and Rainer Schützeichel, photographs by Achim Kukulies and Stefan Müller (German, English), Weidle, Bonn 2010, ISBN 978-3-938803-20-2 .

Web links

Commons : Lutz Fritsch  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Members "F" / Lutz Fritsch (accessed on July 31, 2015)
  2. ↑ Catrin Lorch: Tinkered Reality. Retrieved November 15, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Impressions of the large-scale sculpture "Location Center"
  4. ↑ Kölnische Rundschau : Cities in Artistic Dialogue
  5. ↑ Bonner General-Anzeiger : It shines red between Bonn and Cologne
personal data
SURNAME Fritsch, Lutz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman, sculptor, photographer and polar traveler
DATE OF BIRTH 23rd August 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne