Mechthild Frisch

Mechtild Frisch (born April 22, 1943 in Karlsbad , also Mechtild Frisch, until 1986 Mechtild Nemeczek or Mechtild Nemeczek ) is a German painter and object artist .

Life

Frisch moved with her family to Berlin immediately after she was born . From 1964 she studied at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main and from 1965 to 1968 at the Werkakademie Kassel with Arnold Bode . In Kassel she met the features editor Alfred Nemeczek , whom she married in 1967. Until 1986 she worked under the name Mechtild Nemeczek . Some works are also signed as Mechtild Nemeczek-Frisch. In 1967 she moved with her husband to Hamburg and began studying at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts with Rudolf Hausner and Renato Guttuso .

From 1970 she lived and worked in Düsseldorf and moved to Duisburg-Rheinhausen in 1975 and to Cologne in 1977 . 1985 to 1987 she took on a teaching position for painting / sculpture at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf . From 1994 to 2008 she held a professorship for painting at the Art Academy in Münster . She lives and works in Cologne.

Exhibitions

In addition to exhibitions in the Folkwang Museum (Mechtild Nemeczek - catalog for the exhibition of the Städtische Galerie in Museum Folkwang, Essen, February 17 - March 25, 1984), in Studio 4 of the Sprengel Museum and in the Wiesbaden Museum , she had other exhibitions:

• 1972: Kunstverein Unna (solo exhibition)
• 1983: Three-dimensional current art from the Federal Republic of Germany in Mannheim, Duisburg, Tokyo
• 1984: Artistic Landscape Federal Republic, Overbeck Society , Lübeck
• 1985: Municipal Gallery, Folkwang Museum in Essen (solo exhibition)
• 1986: Tensions - dimension V. Kunsthalle Köln
• 1987: Kassel Art Association
• 1988: Sprengel Museum Hannover
• 1992: Factory exhibition, Museum Wiesbaden
• 1995: Against the evil eye . Municipal gallery Delmenhorst . Catalog from Wienand, Cologne
• 2004: Paper, the artist's material . City gallery Villa Zanders in Bergisch Gladbach
• 2006: What is plastic? 100 years, 100 heads - the century of modern sculpture. Lehmbruck Museum , Duisburg
• 2007: Paper, paper, paper… Municipal gallery Villa Zanders in Bergisch Gladbach

Prizes / awards

• 1979: Villa Romana Prize , Florence
• 1981: Working grant from the Art Fund Foundation , Bonn
• 1982: Art Prize Böttcherstraße , Bremen
• 1983: Barkenhoff scholarship, Worpswede
• 1984: Sponsorship award from the cultural group in the Federal Association of German Industry
• 1989: Art Prize Glockengasse, Cologne
• 2000: Lovis Corinth Prize of the City of Düsseldorf

literature

• Angela Ziesche (ed.): The heavy and the light. Women artists of the 20th century. Dumont Verlag, Cologne 1995, ISBN 3-7701-3383-8
• Hanne Weskott: Mechtild Frisch. The order in the labyrinth , in: Künstler. Critical lexicon of contemporary art. Munich 1991

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mechthild Nemeczek-Frisch . In: Art . The art magazine. Gruner + Jahr, Hamburg May 1987, ART lexicon of contemporary artists, p. 92 .
2. ↑ Mechthild Frisch's biography on kunstaspekte.de
3. ^ Institute for Modern Art Nuremberg: Search for Mechthild Nemeczek  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ http://www2.kubiss.de/~phpk134/OPAC/einfach_suche.php?suche=Frisch,%20Mechthild&suchkriterium=person  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated February 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

• Mechthild Frisch on kunstaspekte.de
• On-line