Petra Falk

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Petra Falk (* 1949 in Lübeck ) is a German painter

life and work

Petra Falk studied free graphics from 1971 to 1973 at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach am Main . From 1973 to 1976 she attended the State University of Fine Arts - Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main . Here she found inspiration for her development as a painter in the theories of her professor Raimer Jochim . She preferred painting, traces on paper and performances. Then Petra Falk first experimented with her old works, which she cut up and put together in strips in a different way. “From this she developed her consistent, intellectual and painterly well-founded program from the beginning of the 1980s. She conceives her work from several picture elements of the same height, of different widths .... ". In 1983 she spent a guest stay (with Nicole Van den Plas ) in the Villa Romana in Florence. In 1984 she received the Reinhold Kurth Art Prize (today the 1822 Art Prize of the Stadtsparkasse Frankfurt), combined with an exhibition in the Forum Stadtsparkasse.

In 1994 she designed three monochrome picture panels for the choir of the Dreikönigskirche in Frankfurt, which symbolize the Trinity : God the Father (gold for eternity), God the Son (earth-colored copper for incarnation), God the Holy Spirit (silver conveys the message that God is not tangible). The Dreikönigskirche in Frankfurt has already entered modern art history with three paintings by Max Beckmann : The Eiserner Steg , 1922, Mainufer and Church , 1925 and Mondlandschaft , 1925, which depict the church in its urban environment.

Petra Falk lives and works in Frankfurt am Main

Exhibitions

Catalogs

  • Hannelore Kersting: Petra Falk - Pictures. Municipal Museum Abteiberg, 1989
  • Petra Falk, Istvan Laurer, Rolf Sommer, Bernd Vossmerbäumer. Galerie Loehr, Frankfurt am Main 1980.
  • Ingrid Mössinger : Art from Frankfurt. Degussa AG, Frankfurt am Main 1989.
  • Eva Atlan (text): Art from Frankfurt. The Degussa AG collection. Frankfurt am Main 2006.
  • Klaus Gallwitz (Ed.): Contemporary Art in the Deutsche Bank Frankfurt. Klett-Cotta, 1987, p. 94.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus Gallwitz (ed.): Contemporary art in the Deutsche Bank Frankfurt. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-608-76234-5 p. 94.
  2. ^ History of the Dreikönigskirche in Frankfurt am Main . Rundfunk.evangelisch on February 2, 2012 for the ZDF service from Frankfurt am Main on February 26, 2012.
  3. ↑ The Eiserner Steg on Lost Art Database
  4. ^ Main embankment and church on the website of the Städel Museum
personal data
SURNAME Falk, Petra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck