Rolf Friederichs
Rolf Friederichs (born November 9, 1937 in Heilbronn ; † March 29, 2011 there ) was a German painter and graphic artist.
Life
In 1956 Friederichs learned the profession of color lithographer . After studying free and applied drawing (illustrator) and commercial and advertising graphics (diploma) from 1960 to 1963, he mainly worked as a freelance graphic designer. In 1967 Rolf Friederichs became a member of the Professional Association of Visual Artists Baden-Württemberg and a member of the Heilbronner Künstlerbund , whose exhibition director he was from 1990 to 2002. The artist took part in numerous exhibitions at home and abroad.
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In search of a form that he suspected to be the second 'imaginary layer' behind the visible world of appearances, Friederichs found pure abstraction in 1965 through the encounter with works by Pollock, Wols and Sonderborg. He used what he had experienced as a basis to continuously detach himself from it and to take the step into pure non-objectivity. Since then, the landscape has been one of his fundamental themes. With it he defined his relationship to the world, to himself and to his fellow human beings. But he subjected them to a change that could be seen in the beginnings of his early watercolors: He used a strongly liquefied brushstroke. Forests, meadows and rivers were rendered as transparent, two-dimensional landscape spaces without the aid of perspective means, only through the expression of colors and shapes.
His first solo exhibition in 1967 in the rooms of the Heilbronn city library brought together landscape studies of the immediate vicinity of Heilbronn, abstract compositions with sometimes ornamental structures.
From the early eighties onwards, Rolf Friederichs did not strive for a 'perfect picture' as before. He rejected a frame as a limitation. His works reproduced sections of an immaterial, infinite space and appeared to be open on all sides. In many cases, the artist left the white of the canvas as the basic tone and added it as an integral part of the compositions. In addition, there were monochrome, but contrasting surface forms that were free of any association and were intended to represent nothing but themselves. Their bright and brightly emerging colors were an expression of his emotions on what he saw: 'I paint the landscape as I perceive it', he had himself once said. Lines not only gave the works support and structure. Together with the surfaces that surround them, the volatility of the paint application releases impulses and has an energy-discharging effect. The artist avoided everything that could weaken the processual aspect of the composition of the picture. His works conveyed the expression of a never-ending river.
The search for a form that contains the 'core', the essence of all being, has resulted in his most recent works being composed of no more than two to three basic tones. He reduced the lines and even the colored areas became larger and clearer. The color black became increasingly dominant - for Friederichs one of the most expressive colors, with ever new shades of light and dark. In 'New York I' (acrylic on canvas, 2005) the black covers almost a third of the picture. The artist tied the characteristic features of the silhouette into a compositionally balanced, tense framework of rectangles. In doing so, he succeeded in depicting shadows, plasticities and even spatial depths with the simplest of means.
A large number of small-format watercolors appear in addition to his canvas paintings (Neckarbogen, 2006). Again and again, he dematerialized the visible in order to convert it into monochrome surfaces with strongly stylized contours.
Exhibitions
- 1995: Kreissparkasse Heilbronn, Neckargartach
- 1998: Heilbronn City Library
- 1999: Volksbank Obersulm-Affaltrach
- 1999: Gallery U 21 Heilbronn
- 2000: Evangelical Church, Stetten i. R.
- 2000: Dr. Heimeier & Partner, Stuttgart-Möhringen
- 2002: EnBW Kraftwerke AG, Stuttgart
- 2003: Stuttgart settlement works
- 2004: Evangelical conference center Löwenstein
- 2004: NWS Kraftwerke AG & Co. KG Altbach Deizisau
- 2005: EnBW Kraftwerk GmbH Neckarwestheim - GKN
- 2007: Tübingen observatory
- 2007: Pfaffenhofen town hall: artists' meeting
- 2007: Kreissparkasse Neckarsulm
- 2009: Old Town Hall, Leingarten
- 2010: Heinrich Fries House, Heilbronn
- 2011: Güglingen Town Hall
- 2013: Rolf Friederichs: Retrospective . ZEAG energy
literature
- R. Friederichs, G. Emig , A. Friederichs: Rolf Friederichs: Informal painting . (= Unterländer Künstler 20), Heilbronn City Library in conjunction with the Heilbronn Artists' Association, Heilbronn 1998
- cid: The painting area as an action area. The artist and graphic designer Rolf Friederichs is dead. In: Heilbronner Voice , April 2, 2011, p. 26.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Obituary notice of the family at trauerundgedenken.de
- ↑ Martina Kitzing-Bretz: Weltinnenbilder of the painter Rolf Friederichs . In: Heilbronner Voice , October 13, 2009
- ↑ Leonore Welzin: Magic script as a sign of solidarity. “Color impressions” by Rolf Friederichs in the town hall foyer. In: Heilbronner Voice , June 3, 2011
- ↑ Martina Kitzing-Bretz: Painting without beginning and end . Heilbronn Voice, May 23, 2013
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Friederichs, Rolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 9, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heilbronn |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 29, 2011 |
| Place of death | Heilbronn |