Marina puts make-up on Luciano
| Marina puts make-up on Luciano |
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| Franz Gertsch , 1975 |
| Acrylic on cotton, painting after photography |
| 234 × 346 cm |
| Museum Ludwig, Cologne
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Marina makes up Luciano is a painting by Franz Gertsch from 1975, it is one of his main works.
Image description
The 234 × 346 cm large photo-realistic painting, which belongs to the collection of the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, shows a man and a woman. At first glance, it seems as if the woman is a man and vice versa (" travesty "), as she has combed her hair strictly backwards, which from the perspective of the beholder makes her appear as if she was wearing a man's haircut. The man, on the other hand, has more than shoulder-length hair, which he also wears open, and a distinction based on facial features is made impossible by the strong, very bright make-up (a lot of blush, blue eyebrows with ends tapering over the temples, bright red lips with her, as well as very intensely emphasized lips, extremely dark eyes, eyelashes extended with lines and black eyebrows with him). Marina wears a jacket whose pattern is very similar to the American flag with many stars in blue and white as well as stripes in red and white , and she bends over Luciano, who willingly holds his head out to her so that she can complete her "work" on him . The background offers a strong contrast . The "colors" are white and beige , the only really colored thing is the meandering pattern of the tiles in the right part of the picture .
The composition lines of the background run vertically: the outer line of the cabinet door, the tile joint, the pipe / pipe. With Marina and Luciano, however, the contours are mostly oblique, the head of Marina, which looks like an extension of the back line, the forearm, even the bent fingers of the hand applying the make-up, the line between Luciano's chin and hairline, which is an optical continuation of the forearm, all run parallel to each other and at right angles to the composition lines of the background.
The two people are Marina Sibbe and her boyfriend at the time, the artist Luciano Castelli , whom Gertsch often painted after Jean-Christophe Ammann introduced him to Lucerne bohemianism.
technology
The photographs preceding the pictures are thrown on the wall with a projector and then painted over. What sets Franz Gertsch apart from colleagues who use similar processes is that he uses narrow brushes instead of a paint gun , so that his process is reminiscent of pointillism .
Period of origin and context
In 1969 Gertsch found Huaa ...! , which he accordingly referred to as work no. 1 , on his new method of working from photographic templates. Was Huaa ...! but it was based on a template that Gertsch found in a magazine, so he later worked with his own photos and motifs from family and friends. The basically banal subjects and snapshots are exaggerated by the large dimensions and the elaborate painting technique. Well-known works from this phase include Medici and the series about Luciano Castelli and his circle of friends, which Gertsch created between 1971 and 1977. These include B. also Gaby and Luciano and At Luciano's House (both from 1973), which like the painting Marina makes up Luciano from 1975 were painted with acrylic on unprimed cotton . The fact that Gertsch also paints “the paintedness of things” distinguishes him from other photo-realists and from artists like Gerhard Richter . Around 1978 Gertsch changed his preferred motifs and turned to the individual portrait ; this ended the phase to which Marina applied Luciano's make-up .
Exhibitions
Through the Medici exhibition at documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 , Gertsch and his photorealistic paintings suddenly became internationally known. His painting Marina make-up Luciano , created in 1975, was now significant enough to be immediately included in the collection of the art historian couple Irene and Peter Ludwig , and has been on loan to the Museum Ludwig in Cologne since 1976 . In 1993 it was shown in a representation of the couple's collection in the Nuremberg Germanic National Museum (" Ludwig's Lust. The Irene and Peter Ludwig Collection"), and in 1995 in the Cologne Museum Ludwig itself ("Our Century"). Other museums on permanent loan from the couple are
- the Ludwig Forum for International Art in Aachen - Irene Ludwig's hometown and headquarters of the company Trumpf Schokolade , founded by her great-grandfather and expanded by Peter Ludwig , exhibition s. u. -
- and the Museum of Modern Art Foundation Ludwig Vienna ; in this the painting was on view in 2006/2007 on the occasion of a double exhibition on Gertsch that took place in the “Mumok” and in the Vienna Albertina .
- Exhibition places of "Marina make up Luciano" in European capitals
Mumok Vienna
National Portrait Gallery London
Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
In 1998 the picture was shown in the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst in Leipzig , finally outside of the German-speaking area in 2000/2001 in the National Portrait Gallery in London (" Painting the Century. 101 Portrait Masterpieces 1900-2000") and in 2002 in the Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris ("Urgent Painting") exhibited.
For the painter's 75th birthday, a touring exhibition Franz Gertsch was conceived - the retrospective , which in 2005/2006 was held at the same time in the Kunstmuseum Bern and the Museum Franz Gertsch in Burgdorf near Bern - Marina make-up Luciano was shown in the latter -, then ( with Marina make-up Luciano ) in 2006 in the Aachen → Ludwig Forum and finally in the Kunsthalle Tübingen .
literature
- Reinhard Spieler with the collaboration of Samuel Vitali (Ed.): Last days: Franz Gertsch - the retrospective . Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 2005, ISBN 978-3-7757-1661-1 (text by Joachim Jäger, Peter J. Schneemann, Reinhard Spieler, Samuel Vitali et al .; catalog of the traveling exhibition).
Web links
- Data and literature on the work, reproductions in the Rheinisches Bildarchiv ( "Kulturelles Erbe Köln" )
- C. Funke: Franz Gertsch, Marina makes up Luciano. “Picture of the week”: 17th week - 17th April to 3rd May 2009. In: museen koeln. Retrieved January 14, 2017 (repeat from 1998 ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Last days: Franz Gertsch - the retrospective. Museum Frank Gertsch, accessed on January 14, 2017 (see #Literature ).
- ^ The collection of the Museum Ludwig. Museum Ludwig, accessed on January 14, 2017 .
- ↑ a b c d data on the painting in the Rheinisches Bildarchiv .
- ↑ Reinhard Spieler (ed.): Last days: Franz Gertsch - the retrospective . Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 2005, ISBN 978-3-7757-1661-1 , biography Luciano Castelli, p. 270 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g The more she looks back. The secret of revealing - Franz Gertsch retrospective in Aachen. In: k.west - magazine for art culture society. Retrieved January 14, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Brigitte Borchhardt-Birbaumer: Here everyday life becomes a mission. Albertina and Mumok celebrate the Swiss hyper-realist Franz Gertsch in an exhibition pair race. In: Wiener Zeitung . October 18, 2006, accessed January 14, 2017 .
- ↑ a b c Andreas Ammer: Moments for Eternity. The Ludwig Forum in Aachen shows Franz Gertsch's breathtaking pictures in a large retrospective. In: WDR -Kulturweltspiegel. April 2, 2006, archived from the original on April 12, 2008 ; accessed on February 12, 2017 .
- ^ Sandi Paucic: Gertsch, Franz. Long version. In: SIKART Lexicon on Art in Switzerland . 2011, accessed February 11, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Franz Gertsch. The retrospective. Kunstmuseum Bern, accessed on January 14, 2017 .
- ↑ a b data set of the common union catalog .
- ↑ a b data set of the German National Library .
- ^ Franz Gertsch. The retrospective. Kunsthalle Tübingen , accessed on January 14, 2017 .