Monika Kropshofer

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Monika Kropshofer (born November 14, 1952 in Neuwied ); is a German painter and photographer . Since the mid-2000s, Kropshofer gained increased fame through her large-format, painted landscape and architectural photographs, which were created on the basis of numerous trips and work stays in Europe , Africa and Asia .

life and work

From 1972 to 1977 Monika Kropshofer initially studied law at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . Following her two-year legal clerkship in Mainz , she worked as a lawyer from 1980, first in Mainz, then in Koblenz, and received her doctorate in 1982 . In 1983, Kropshofer founded his own law firm and worked as a trial attorney at the Koblenz Higher Regional Court . In 1990 she gave up this activity to study art history at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . At the same time she worked as a freelance artist. In 1995 she finished her studies.

Kropshofer began her autodidactic artistic training with the experimental exploration of various image materials and image carriers. From the beginning, the main focus was on combining various media, especially photography and painting. Kropshofer puts landscape and architecture photographs on a wide variety of image carriers (glass, plastic sheets, photo paper, blinds, plastic films) and then works on them painterly. Kropshofer dispenses with any subsequent digital image processing. The photographs are taken during the artist's regular trips and work stays in Europe, Africa and Southeast Asia. Since the mid-2000s, the works have become larger and more expansive, and expansive installations have now also emerged . Kropshofer's artistic engagement always revolves around the formal dialogue between the subject and the media used. Her method for this is the construction and deconstruction of space depending on the respective picture carrier and the revealing of the proportionality of the structures in landscape and architecture with the help of painting. Her works are thus in the tradition of photography's very own discourse , namely the question of image and reality, fiction and reality. The artist lives and works in Boppard .

Works in public collections

  • Ludwig Museum Koblenz : untitled (Iceland) , 2010, 70 × 100 cm, mixed media on digital print on plastic plate
  • City of Grimmen : untitled (Grimmen) , 2007, 2 works of 30 × 45 cm, mixed media on photo paper
  • Goethe-Institut Taiwan : Untitled (Vietnam) , 2007, 50 × 75 cm, mixed media on photo paper
  • Museum am Strom, Bingen : Untitled, Wernerkapelle I , 2011, 105 × 70 cm, mixed media on digital print on plastic plate
  • City of Boppard : Boppard, Kurfürstliche Burg , 2015, 100 × 150 cm, mixed media on digital print on plastic plate
  • Landschaftsverband Rheinland , Langenfeld : Untitled (memorial stone Friedhof Hadamar) , 2016, 80 × 120 cm, mixed media on digital print on plastic plate
  • Villa Vigoni , German-Italian Center for European Excellence, Menaggio : Untitled (Weimar, Römisches Haus) , 2017, 80 × 120 cm, mixed media on digital print on plastic plate
  • City of Lahr : Metamorphoses , 4 works, 2018, each 165 × 110 cm, mixed media on digital printing on multilayer plastic sheets

Exhibitions (selection)

literature

  • Beyer, Savoy, Tegethoff: General Artists Lexicon (AKL) , Volume 82, Berlin 2014.
  • Changing Dream Streams. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name by the two artists Monika Kropshofer and Elisabeth Bergner. Boppard 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-038410-3 .
  • Interventions. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Representation, Berlin 2011. Boppard 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-033741-3 .
  • back to basics. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name at Museum Boppard, Boppard 2015. Boppard 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-050867-7 .
  • Catalog for the State Garden Show in Lahr 2018: For art enthusiasts. Your art guide through the Landesgartenschauugelände, Lahr 2018.
  • Architectural photography as exhibition architecture, in: GDKE Rheinland-Pfalz, Landesmuseum Mainz (ed.): Bauhaus - form und reform, EA Seemann-Verlag, Mainz and Leipzig 2019, ISBN 978-3-86502-426-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz Höfchen: Kropshofer, Monika. In: Beyer, Savoy, Tegethoff: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, Volume 82, Berlin 2014, p. 71.
  2. ↑ Exhibition announcement Galerie Driver November 2013
  3. ^ Heinz Höfchen: Pas de deux: Art and nature. Elisabeth Bergner and Monika Kropshofer in dialogue. In: Changing Dream Streams, catalog for the exhibition of the same name in Bingen 2012 and Krems 2013 , p. 21.
  4. ^ Exhibition review on the website of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament
  5. ↑ Fascinating Art - Dr. Monika Kropshofer in Ahlbeck. In: Usedom Wollin magazine exclusive , winter 2006, accessed on January 20, 2015.
  6. ↑ Discover spatial worlds. In: Staatszeitung , No. 5, February 25, 2013, accessed January 20, 2015.
  7. ↑ The world itself. Monika Kropshofer at Herrenhof Mußbach , Stadtanzeiger from January 29, 2015
  8. ↑ Le passe-muraille. Monika Kropshofer expose des techniques mixtes à l'Espace Paragon. In: Luxemburger Wort of February 21, 2010, accessed January 20, 2015.
  9. ↑ Blind Date. Sculpture meets photo. In: Allgemeine Zeitung, February 26, 2013, accessed January 20, 2015.
  10. ↑ Heinz Höfchen: The dialectic of reflection. On Monika Kropshofer's work , at: http://www.monika-kropshofer.de/de/ , accessed on January 11, 2015
  11. ^ Heinz Höfchen: Interventions. On Monika Kropshofer's new work, Boppard 2011, p. 6.
  12. ↑ Accessed January 11, 2015 by Dr. Monika Kropshofer: The world itself. Photography and painting
  13. ↑ World Heritage in Dialog. In: Niederösterreichische Nachrichten of April 2, 2013, accessed on January 20, 2015.
  14. ↑ Ines Bresler: Unmistakable feeling for dealing with light, in: General-Anzeiger (Bonn) of September 9, 2017
  15. ↑ http://landesgartenschau-lahr2018.de/gartenschau/kunst-auf-der-landesgartenschau/
  16. ↑ http://www.landesmuseum-mainz.de/ausstellungen/bauhaus-form-und-reform/ , accessed on October 8, 2019
  17. ↑ Art guide of the Landesgartenschau Lahr 2018 (without ISBN, only available on site): http://landesgartenschau-lahr2018.de/gartenschau/neuheiten/der-kunstfuehrer-ist-da/
personal data
SURNAME Kropshofer, Monika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuwied