Peter Tollens
Peter Tollens (born August 21, 1954 in Kleve ) is a German painter, draftsman and book artist living in Cologne. In his predominantly monochrome but structured paintings, he deals intensively with the essence of color in painting ( Paint and Color ). His work also includes drawings, graphics and artist books.
Life
From 1970 to 1973 P. Tollens received training as a color lithographer. From 1976 to 1981 he studied painting at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences under Professor Stefan Wewerka .
Works in public collections
- Kolumba , art museum of the Archdiocese of Cologne
- Ege Art and Culture Foundation, Freiburg
- Mezzanine, Foundation for Art, Schaan, Liechtenstein
- Albright Knox Museum , Buffalo, USA
- Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California, USA
- JP Morgan Chase & Co., USA
- Karl-Ernst Osthaus Museum , Hagen
- Museum Kurhaus, Kleve
- Mondstudio Collection , Bad Homburg
- State Gallery Stuttgart , Stuttgart
- Municipal Art Museum , Bonn
- Luztig-Antal Collection, Debrecen, Hungary
- Vass Collection, Budapest, Hungary
- Deutsche Apotheker- und Ärztebank eG, Düsseldorf
- Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
- Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf / Wolfgang Hanck Collection, Düsseldorf
- Picture book museum Burg Wissem, Troisdorf
Solo exhibitions
- 2016 Peter Tollens Transition orange gray red green white painting 2010–2015, Galerie Wenger Zurich
- 2015 Artist Books, book presentation with exhibition at Alexander Verlag , Berlin
- 2012 Artist Books, Picture Book Museum Burg Wissem, Troisdorf ( Alexander Verlag Berlin , Alexander Verlag , Berlin)
- 2011 'Transit', painting, kunstgaleriebonn, Bonn
- 2009 gray green red white, paintings, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, USA
- 2008 Red Gray Green White Orange Paintings, Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York, USA
- 2007 painting 1987–2007, Raumwechsel 9, Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiburg
- 2006 Paintings, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston MA., USA
- 2004 60 etchings, Raumwechsel I, Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiburg
- 2004 Abstract Paintings, Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, USA (with Michael Toenges)
- 2003 Paintings, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, USA (with Michael Toenges)
- 2003 Pictures and Books, Gallery S 65, Cologne
- 2002 Paintings, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston MA., USA
- 2002 Stars for Kolumba with work book Peter Tollens, Diözesanmuseum, Cologne
- 2001 Paintings, Charlotte Jackson Fine Arts, Santa Fe, USA
- 2000 Paintings and Books, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, USA
- 1999 Schilderijen, Galerij S65, Aalst, Belgium
- 1998 Paintings, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, USA
- 1996 A picture and books, Diözesanmuseum, Cologne
- 1995 Color painting, Forum visual artists, Essen
- 1993 Between two covers, drawings in notebooks, notebooks and books, Artillery, Cologne (catalog)
- 1989 Color painting, Galerie G, Freiburg
- 1988 Color painting, Artothek, Cologne
- 1987 City Museum Haus Koekkoek, Kleve (catalog)
literature
- Kenneth Baker: Painting as Decoration, Agitation. In: San Francisco Chronicle, June 18, 2005, Page E-10
- Volker Bauermeister: The moment of color. In: Badische Zeitung, September 21, 2007
- Gabriele Beßler: About reality. In: Kunstforum, Vol. 151, July / September 2000, pp. 351–353
- Matthias Bleyl: Essential Painting in Germany. Paths to Art after 1945. Nuremberg 1988, pp. 217–220.
- Guido De Werd : Peter Tollens. Painting. In: Exhibition catalog Städtisches Museum Haus Koekkoek, Kleve 1987, o. P.
- Martin Engler: The lost distance of the monochrome. To pictures by Peter Tollens. In: Michael Fehr (Ed.): The color has me. Positions on non-representational painting. Essen 2000, pp. 239-241.
- Reinhard Ermen: Peter Tollens / Dieter Villinger. Color as color. In: Kunstforum International, Vol. 94, April / May 1988, pp. 297-298.
- Joe Fyfe: Peter Tollens at Magarete Roeder, NYC. In: Art in America, November 2008, p. 185
- Imre Györgyi: monochrome painting - radical painting. In: exhibition catalog “painting painting”; International Monochrome Painting in the Vass Collection, Veszprém 2007–2009, no p.
- Stefan Kraus : Peter Tollens drawing books. In: Exhibition catalog Artillerie, Cologne 1994, pp. 6-19.
- Stefan Kraus: October 1995 - December 1998. In: Peter Tollens. (Catalog of the gallery S65, Aalst (B)). Aalst (B), 2001, pp. 7-10
- Hans Albert Peters: A few pins in the proverbial haystack. In: Exhibition catalog Forum Junge Kunst Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart 1979, o. P.
- Eva-Maria Schumann-Bacia: Black holes in color. regioartline.org, 2003
- Jörg Schubert: Out to yourself. To pictures and books by Peter Tollens. In: Cologne Sketches Heft 4/2004, p. 6
- Rolf Taschen: Difficulties in dealing with radical color painting. In: Exhibition catalog Städtisches Museum Koekkoek, Kleve 1987, o. P.
Web links
- Literature by and about Peter Tollens in the catalog of the German National Library
- Peter Tollens website
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Great, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, draftsman and book artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 21, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kleve |