Rosemarie Koczy
Rosemarie Inge Koczÿ , also Koczy, (born March 5, 1939 in Recklinghausen ; died December 12, 2007 in Croton-on-Hudson (New York) ) was a German-American artist.
Life
According to her own statements, Rosemarie Koczy was deported with her parents and sister to a satellite camp of the Dachau concentration camp in 1942. After the liberation, her mother was no longer psychologically able to look after the child, so Rosemarie grew up with her grandparents and in a children's home. Koczy later referred to concentration camp imprisonment in her artistic work. According to the Recklinghausen City Archives, however, the artist deliberately wrongly stated that she was Jewish and in a concentration camp. Investigations in registry offices and residents' registers would have shown that Koczÿ was not a Jew, but, like her parents and grandparents, a Roman Catholic.
Koczy went to Switzerland in 1959 and from 1961 attended the École des arts décoratifs in Geneva , where she graduated in 1965. Koczy was married to a Swiss citizen and thus received Swiss citizenship. In 1972 she met Peggy Guggenheim , who she commissioned with a tapestry . She and her later mentor Thomas Messer , director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum , encouraged Koczy to continue her career in New York. There she married the piano maker and composer Louis Pelosi in 1984, and from then on lived and worked in Croton-on-Hudson (New York) .
From the mid-1970s, Koczy mainly painted pictures that deal with the Holocaust .
The Kunsthalle Recklinghausen exhibited one hundred of her paintings in 2017, which were donated to her hometown.
Exhibitions (selection)
- Marion M. Callis: Rosemarie Koczÿ, Art As Witness, L'Art Comme Témoignage . QCC Art Gallery, The City University of New York, Bayside, New York 2013
- Rosemarie Koczÿ, I Weave You a Shroud . Ed .: QCC Art Gallery Press, The City University of New York, Bayside, New York 2009
- Rosemarie Koczy: Drawings 1980–1990 . Cologne: Galerie Susanne Zander, 1990
Web links
- Literature by and about Rosemarie Koczy in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Rosemarie Koczÿ. Exhibition in the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, 2017
- Works by the Shoah survivors Koczÿ in Recklinghausen. In: Die Welt , August 24, 2017
- Rosemarie Inge Kočzÿ (1939–2007). Buchenwald Concentration Camp Memorial, 2009
- Rosemarie Heber Koczÿ. Guggenheim Venice
literature
- City of Recklinghausen (Ed.): Rosemarie Koczÿ. Projections of an identity . Recklinghausen 2018, contains: Hans-Jürgen Schwalm: Rosemarie Koczÿ: An exhibition in the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen (pp. 6–11); Georg Möllers: Rosemarie Koczÿ: A historical approach (pp. 12–49); Matthias Kordes: Rosemarie Koczÿ as a witness who falsifies memories. Ways and limits of a fictitious Jewish identity (pp. 50–76).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rosemarie Koczÿ. In: Yad Vashem , accessed November 8, 2017
- ^ German press agency: Artist Koczÿ faked Holocaust biography. In: monopol-magazin.de , November 8, 2017.
- ↑ Regina Völz: Rosemarie Koczÿ faked Holocaust biography. In: WDR.de , November 8, 2017
- ↑ Louis Pelosi. In: louis-pelosi-composer.com
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Koczy, Rosemary |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rosemarie Inge Koczÿ; Rosemarie Heber Koczÿ |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 5, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Recklinghausen |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 12, 2007 |
| Place of death | Croton-on-Hudson (New York) |