Marjosch

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Marjosch , actually Martin Johannes Scholkmann (born June 17, 1938 in Leonberg ; † February 9, 2013 in Stuttgart ) was a German painter .

Life

Martin Johannes Scholkmann studied from 1957 to 1960 at the Higher Technical College for the Graphic Arts in Stuttgart with Leo Schobinger , Albrecht Ade and Albrecht Appelhans and at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart in the painting department with Heinrich Wildemann and Rudolf Müller. Besides working as an organist in Leonberg. 1960 to 1963 followed studies and work in Ulm and Nantes (France), as well as longer trips to Italy, Yugoslavia, Spain and the Netherlands.

After further training as a prospectus painter and film producer in the Bavaria Film Studios in Munich , he worked in the television film studios of the Süddeutscher Rundfunk (SDR) until 1998 .

Parallel to his professional artistic activity, he worked as a freelance artist and undertook extensive study trips to the Middle East and South Asia, which influenced his artistic work.

Marjosch worked as a freelance artist in Stuttgart .

Martin Johannes Scholkmann died on February 9, 2013 at the age of 74.

Artistic creation

Marjosch's works can be assigned to abstract painting (or non-representational painting) with influences from constructivism . The work of Paul Klee and the constructivists Piet Mondrian and Adolf Fleischmann influenced his artistic work and the development of his own painting style.

In the 1970s, Marjosch devoted himself to socially critical topics in his works, which he implemented in the form of collages and sculptures. At the same time, his style of painting developed from a realistic depiction of nature to an ever increasing level of abstraction, which from the 1990s onwards resulted in a forced abstract depiction of the fractal branch structures of trees. In order to illustrate the invariance of the structures in relation to a spatial orientation, he later created his pictures in round form (so-called "round pictures"). Marjosch's further studies on the structure of trees lead him to another abstraction in order to clearly work out the "structural essence of trees or nature in general". The resulting images ("grid images", "meditation images") consist of constructivist color combinations, which, according to the artist, should lead the viewer to convey an emotional experience of the fundamental principles of nature through their arrangement. In addition, the artist sees his pictures as a reflection of the social conditions and events of the present, without a realistic representation.

Public collections

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1971: Stuttgart Art Building , Stuttgart
  • 1972: Greiner Gallery, Stuttgart
  • 1975: Qualerie Gallery, Esslingen
  • 1975/81: Katharinenhospital Stuttgart , Stuttgart
  • 1976/77: Studio 96, Stuttgart
  • 1979: Geno House, Stuttgart
  • 2005/06: Galerie Café, Bietigheim
  • 2007: Brother Klaus Church, Stuttgart

Group exhibitions (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice In: stuttgart-gedenken.de. Retrieved February 24, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Marjosch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scholkmann, Martin Johannes (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Leonberg
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 2013
Place of death Stuttgart