Peter Lacroix

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Portrait photo by Peter Lacroix, 2009
Work of art color conductor (reconstruction, 2010), Aachen

Peter Lacroix (born February 25, 1924 in Aachen ; † March 4, 2010 ibid) was a German representative of Concrete Art and Conceptual Art .

Life and work

Peter Lacroix trained as a theater painter at the Aachen Theater in 1940 . After his return from captivity, he returned to work in 1945 and started working as a freelance artist in 1947.

In the 1950s he devoted himself to the so-called geometric abstraction and mostly took figurative models from nature and architecture, which he dismantled into his structures in order to reassemble them into his own compositions of color surfaces and lines. As far as is known, he exhibited for the first time in 1953 with the Neue Aachener Gruppe around Karl Fred Dahmen , Hubert Werden , Rolf Faber, Hanns Pastor , Engelbert Mainzer, Fritz Martin and others in the Aachen Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum . Under the influence of informal art , restlessly moving, formally dissolved compositions were created in the mid-1960s.

  • Peter Lacroix, designed in 1954

  • Peter Lacroix, undated, 1957

  • Peter Lacroix, undated, 1960

  • Peter Lacroix, undated (head), 1965

Together with Hanns Pastor , Jupp Kuckartz and Fritz Martin, Lacroix founded "Gruppe 65" in 1965. Together they exhibited in the Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum in 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969 and 1972. In 1971 Peter Lacroix's first solo exhibition took place in the Neue Galerie Sammlung Ludwig .

From 1968 onwards, extensive series of abstractly shaped panel paintings with sharp-edged colored areas without visible brushstrokes in strong, signal-like colors were created. This includes numerous designs and concepts for art in public spaces, such as the temporary "color ladder" at the Aachen registry office (permanent reconstruction 2010) that was created in 1972–73 as part of the urban project "Street Art 73 Aachen". With a few exceptions, not least because of the rejection of the Aachen building authorities, other projects are never realized.

  • Peter Lacroix, undated, 1968

  • Peter Lacroix, undated, 1969

  • Peter Lacroix, Concept Traverse, 1974

In the following work phase from 1975 onwards, Lacroix limited himself in his geometric compositions to the square and chance: "From cube numbers and a fixed color code, as well as a rectangular standard system, he developed different surfaces based on square modules in a 2 × 3 grid , 2 × 3 × 6 or 6 × 6 etc. are arranged and structured ". Lacroix also uses the rows of numbers on receipts as the basis for two- and three-dimensional work. This creates countless possibilities for images, which he puts on paper in stacks of sketches with pencil and crayon, paints in large format with synthetic resin on canvas or even constructs three-dimensional wood.

  • Peter Lacroix, undated, 1977

  • Peter Lacroix, undated, 1979

  • Peter Lacroix, draft Aldi receipt, 1984

The first Kabbalah portraits were created in 1985, with which Lacroix portrayed people based on their name and date of birth. Letters become numbers, numbers form marking points and thus divide circles and rings: “Geometric shapes are created that owe their shape to mysterious but not fictitious data [...] [...]. To create a portrait he needs no photo of to Portraitierenden, but only the name and date of birth [...] Later (2001 - 2004). He carries blood pressure and circulatory values in line create titles like Vita juice , blood count , blood field together. The principle constantly creates new forms and form relationships. Objectivity replaces illusionistic sentimentality. "

Over the years, Peter Lacroix has initiated and organized many group exhibitions as an exhibition maker. In the historic Welschen Mühle in the Haaren district of Aachen , for example, he and Karl Pütz organized exhibitions every two years in which works by Anette Berns, Herbert Falken , Irmel Kamp-Bandau, Barbara and Michael Leisgen , Reiner Nachwey, Norbert Walter Peters , Ludwig Schaffrath and Wilhelm Schürmann could be seen. He was also a mentor and stimulator of the younger generation in Aachen.

Peter Lacroix, together with his first wife Trude, has compiled an extensive and remarkable collection over many decades, which he donated to the city of Aachen in 2005. There are over 400 works from the years 1947 to 2004 by over 100 - some of them well-known - artists.

In spring 2015 the Ludwig Forum for International Art Aachen presented the solo exhibition “Pur” with around 150 works by the artist.

The Kunstmuseum Stuttgart showed in 2016/17 as part of the exhibition “[un] expected. The art of chance ”alongside works by z. B. Gerhard Richter and Max Ernst twelve works by Peter Lacroix.

In 2017 the Ludwiggalerie Schloss Oberhausen showed as part of the exhibition “LET'S BUY IT! Art and Purchasing - From Albrecht Dürer to Andy Warhol to Gerhard Richter “six works by the Aachen artist. The accompanying flyer adorns, among other things, his work “Aldi receipt no. 3 "from 1989.

In spring 2017, the Peter and Irene Ludwig Foundation bought two works from the late 1960s from the estate of Peter Lacroix.

Solo exhibitions

1971 Aachen, Neue Galerie Sammlung Ludwig
1973 Cologne, Landschaftsverband Rheinland, "Large Format"
1973 Aachen, large object (registry office), color conductor
1974 Aachen, Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, "Pictures and Concepts"
1975 Düren, large project (Renker silos)
1976 Duisburg -Rheinhausen, City Collection
1976 Krefeld, Schüring House, "Art in Public Space"
1977 Bonn, Circulus Gallery
1978 Mönchengladbach, Room 55/51, Buchholz / Lacroix
1979 Aachen, Burtscheider Schule eV, Buchholz / Lacroix
1979 Hagen, large project, color conductor
1980 Bonn, Circulus Gallery
1981 Cologne, Hahnentorburg "Art and Architecture"
1986 Stolberg, Burghaus eV, "Entrandomized Pictures"
1986 Aachen, Aula Carolina, Lacroix / Nestler
1988 Bonn, Society for Art and Design eV, Lacroix / Nestler
1989 Aachen, Galerie von the Milwe
1990 Stolberg, Burg-Galerie, Lacroix / Nestler
1991 Eschweiler, municipal art collection, art association Kunststück
1992 Aachen, NeuerAachenerKun stverein, "Portraits"
1993 Aachen, Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, 3 + 1 periods in the work of Peter Lacroix '
2015 Aachen, Ludwig Forum for International Art Aachen, "Pur"

Exhibition catalogs

  • 3 + 1 periods in the work of Peter Lacroix , Aachen: Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, 1993
  • Forming from numbers Aachen  : Museums of the City of Aachen, 2003
  • Peter Lacroix Aachen  : Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, 2007
  • Andreas Petzold and Ludwig Forum for International Art Aachen (eds.): Pur - Peter Lacroix (1924-2010) , 2015. Catalog for the exhibition in the Ludwig Forum Aachen, February 1 to April 19, 2015, ISBN 978-3-929292- 55-8 .
  • Ulrike Groos, Eva-Marina Froitzheim (ed.): [Un] expected. The Art of Chance , 2016. Catalog for the exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, September 24, 2016 to February 19, 2017, ISBN 978-3-86832-341-2
  • Christine Vogt (Ed.): LET'S BUY IT! Art and Purchasing - From Albrecht Dürer to Andy Warhol to Gerhard Richter , 2017. Catalog for the exhibition in the Ludwiggalerie Schloss Oberhausen, January 22 to May 14, 2017, ISBN 978-3-7356-0320-3

literature

  • Gregor Jansen: Time and Chance between 1975 and 1989 in Pur - Peter Lacroix (1924-2010) , pp. 87-89
  • Annette Lagler: The artist's formula in pure form - Peter Lacroix (1924–2010) , pp. 5–6
  • Annette Lagler: rectangles, ribbons, colors in pure form - Peter Lacroix (1924–2010) , pp. 29–31
  • Adam C. Oellers : Peter Lacroix - an artist in Aachen in pure form - Peter Lacroix (1924–2010) , pp. 11–12
  • Andreas Petzold: The Kabbalah portraits in pure form - Peter Lacroix (1924-2010) , pp. 135-136
  • Christine Vogt: It is not more. You see what you see in Pur - Peter Lacroix (1924–2010) , pp. 131–132

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adam C. Oellers "Peter Lacroix - an artist in Aachen", p. 11 in Andreas Petzold and Ludwig Forum for International Art Aachen (eds.): Peter Lacroix (1924-2010) , Aachen 2015, ISBN 978-3-929292 -55-8 .
  2. ^ Adam C. Oellers "Peter Lacroix - an artist in Aachen", p. 11 in Andreas Petzold and Ludwig Forum for International Art Aachen (eds.): Peter Lacroix (1924-2010) , Aachen 2015, ISBN 978-3-929292 -55-8 .
  3. ↑ Annette Lagler "Rectangles, Ribbons, Colors", p. 29 in Andreas Petzold and Ludwig Forum for International Art Aachen (ed.): Peter Lacroix (1924-2010) , Aachen 2015, ISBN 978-3-929292-55-8 .
  4. ^ Gregor Jansen "Peter Lacroix. Time and Chance Between 1975 and 1989", p. 89 in Andreas Petzold and Ludwig Forum for International Art Aachen (eds.): Peter Lacroix (1924-2010) , Aachen 2015, ISBN 978-3- 929292-55-8 .
  5. ↑ Andreas Petzold "Die Kabbalah Portraits ", p. 135f in Andreas Petzold and Ludwig Forum for International Art Aachen (ed.): Peter Lacroix (1924-2010) , Aachen 2015, ISBN 978-3-929292-55-8 .
  6. ↑ Aachen generously donated . In: Aachener Nachrichten . ( aachener-nachrichten.de [accessed June 8, 2017]).
  7. ^ Eckhard Hoog: Ludwig Forum: Retrospective for Peter Lacroix . In: Aachener Nachrichten . ( aachener-nachrichten.de [accessed June 8, 2017]).
  8. ^ Ludwig Forum. Retrieved June 8, 2017 .
  9. ^ Archive - Kunstmuseum Stuttgart. Retrieved June 8, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Review | www.ludwiggalerie.de. Retrieved June 8, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Lacroix, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH March 4, 2010
Place of death Aachen