Thomas Grochowiak

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Thomas Grochowiak (born December 2, 1914 in Recklinghausen ; † November 25, 2012 in Karlsruhe ) was a German painter and museum director.

Life

Thomas Grochowiak was born the son of a miner . After elementary and secondary school, he began an apprenticeship as a decoration and poster painter in 1932. In 1938 he became head of the advertising department of a department store group and attended evening courses in painting and drawing, including at the Werkkunstschule Dortmund . Grochowiak also drew and painted during his military service between 1939 and 1945. The pictures created during this period helped him achieve unexpected success in a first exhibition after the end of the war.

In 1948 he founded the group Junge westen with artist colleagues Gustav Deppe , Ernst Hermanns , Emil Schumacher , Heinrich Siepmann and Hans Werdehausen . From 1950 to 1979 he was a director of the Ruhr Festival , and from 1954 to 1980 he was director of the Recklinghausen Municipal Museums and, from 1969, the Municipal Gallery of Oberhausen Castle . In 1955 he traveled to London as a guest of the British Council .

From 1965 to 1969 Grochowiak worked as general commissioner for the German section of the Paris Biennale and from 1971 to 1978 in the same function for the German section of the Triennale India , New Delhi. Grochowiak was one of the three honorary members of the German Association of Artists and served as its president from 1979 to 1985. In 1985 he was guest of honor at Villa Massimo and in 1987 at Villa Romana in Florence.

Since 1948 Thomas Grochowiak had many exhibitions at home and abroad. He lived and worked in Kuppenheim near Baden-Baden, Recklinghausen and Andalusia. Grochowiak died on November 25, 2012 at the age of 97 in Karlsruhe.

Works

Many works by Thomas Grochowiak can be seen in public collections: Collection of the Belgian State; Museum Bochum ; Municipal art collections, Darmstadt; Federal Art Collection ; Museum am Ostwall , Dortmund; Art Museum Gelsenkirchen ; Kunsthalle Hamburg ; Lower Saxony State Gallery , Hanover; State Art Gallery Karlsruhe ; Museum Ludwig , Cologne; LWL State Museum for Art and Cultural History , Münster; National Gallery of Modern Art , New Delhi; Recklinghausen Art Gallery ; State Gallery Stuttgart ; Märkisches Museum Witten

Honors

literature

  • Anneliese Schröder: Thomas Grochowiak. Monographs on Rhenish-Westphalian contemporary art, Volume 33; Publishing house Aurel Bongers, Recklinghausen 1967.
  • Thomas Grochowiak: Lust for color - inspired by Mozart. Catalog on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen from September 8th to October 6th 1991. Texts by Ferdinand Ullrich, Hans-Jürgen Schwalm, Franz Joseph van der Grinten and Ingrid LaPlante. 1991.
  • Doris Schmidt (Ed.): Thomas Grochowiak - monograph and overview of works. With contributions by Doris Schmidt, Franz Joseph van der Grinten, Gerd Presler , D. Schönbach, among others . Wienand Verlag, Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-87909-359-8 .
  • Thomas Grochowiak: Retrospective for the 85th birthday. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name from January 20 to March 12, 2000 in the Städtische Galerie Fruchthalle Rastatt, Rastatt. With texts by Ingeborg Ströle and Thomas Hirsch. 2000, ISBN 3-923082-34-7 .
  • 2006 Thomas Grochowiak - RevierAtelier, Volume 3. Jörg Loskill (Ed.), Ferdinand Ullrich. Klartext Verlagsgesellschaft, Essen 2006, ISBN 978-3-89861-507-5 .
  • Walter Israel, Friedrich-Wilhelm Geiersbach: Thomas Grochowiak: Making music with colors and shapes. kunstdialoghagenwest, issue 3. ardenkuverlag, Hagen 2007, ISBN 978-3-932070-76-1 .
  • Ferdinand Ullrich, Hans-Jürgen Schwalm: Under the sign of abstraction. The group »young west« 1948–1962. Art book for the exhibitions in the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen from August 3 to September 28, 2008 and in the RWE Tower, Dortmund, from September 3 to October 24, 2008. Christof Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-86678-214- 3 .
  • Walter Grasskamp: Thomas Grochowiak - Walter Grasskamp. Energies / Synergies 8. Verlag Walther König, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-86560-629-7 .
  • Dirk Teuber: Thomas Grochowiak. In: Artists - Critical Lexicon of Contemporary Art , Issue 95, Issue 16, 3rd quarter 2011. Zeit Kunstverlag, Munich 2011, ISSN  0934-1730

Films / video / audio

  • 1990: WDR Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln, "Here I am - Meidner". Approach to the expressionist Ludwig Meidner. Film portrait, with Thomas Grochowiak as a contemporary witness. Author: Jörn Staeger. Length: 29 minutes
  • 1991: SWF Südwestrundfunk Baden-Baden, clay paintings | Oliver Amadeus Kayser at the piano with sound interpretations of the paintings by Thomas Grochowiak. Film reporting. Broadcast in August 1991, length: 45 minutes
  • 1991: ARD, "Lust for color - inspired by Mozart". A film by Ingrid LaPlante about Thomas Grochowiak.
  • 2005: TV Emscher-Lippe, opening of the exhibition in the Gelsenkirchen Museum: “Picturesque compositions for FDR Kuhlau by Thomas Grochowiak”. Broadcast on February 2, 2005. Length: 5 minutes
  • 2005: SWR2 Südwestrundfunk, “Contemporaries - Thomas Grochowiak, painter”, in conversation with Günter Schehl. Broadcast on November 20, 2005, 2:05 p.m. Length: 45 minutes
  • 2007: WDR 5 Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln, Experienced Stories: “Of someone who set out to be a painter”. Thomas Grochowiak and the post-war art scene. Broadcast on November 25, 2007, length: 22 minutes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jens Dirksen: “young west” painter Thomas Grochowiak died at the age of 97. Obituary in DerWesten on November 26, 2012
  2. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Honorary members : Rune Mields , Rupprecht Geiger and Thomas Grochowiak (accessed on June 9, 2015)
  3. ↑ Thomas Grochowiak: Biography on grochowiak.com
personal data
SURNAME Grochowiak, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Recklinghausen
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 2012
Place of death Karlsruhe