Thomas Prautsch

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Thomas Prautsch (* 1965 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German painter .

life and work

Prautsch studied in Münster with Ludmilla von Arseniew and Timm Ulrichs . In 1999 he completed his studies as a master class student with an academy certificate.

"Thomas Prautsch paints as if our century were not teeming with the last pictures, as if painting had never got into crisis talk and reality had not long since splintered into a" broken mirror "(Paul Virilio)."

- Manfred Schneckenburger

Thomas Prautsch paints impasto oil paintings. The motifs of the cityscape , stairs , fire and stone structures are taken up anew on numerous canvases.

“What was inscribed in the rocks in geological ages, Thomas Prautsch puts on paper in the twinkling of an eye of a short painting process, confusingly similar and yet completely different. In this way, a bridge over the ages succeeds, a harmony "parallel to nature", as Cézanne saw it as the goal of the arts; the natural is well absorbed in the artificial and artistic. And Prautsch also redeems in material terms what Kleist said in "Sensations in front of Friedrichs Seelandschaft" (1810): "Yes, if you painted this landscape with your own chalk and your own water (...)" "

- Timm Ulrichs

The cityscapes relate to places in his personal environment, such as Paris, Cologne or Münster- Coerde . Digitally stored sources serve as an impulse for his painting. Prautsch is not an outdoor painter .

“The painter Prautsch shows us perspectives that could never have been created classically plein air with a field easel. Satellite photos stored on the Internet are not the source of the image, but rather the pretext for doing this self-exploring painting. Prautsch also uses the film as a digital sketchbook for the pictures of the series of fire, as it seems difficult to imagine that the painter, unmolested by task forces, installs a field easel in the immediate vicinity of a large fire, amid flammable puddles, in the scorching heat, calmly and inspired. To try to depict fire, an extremely fleeting, almost immaterial, lucid phenomenon with the help of opaque oil painting, is a delicate undertaking from a technical point of view. "

- Andreas Moersener

Exhibitions (selection)

Awards (selection)

  • 1994: Studio grant from the city of Münster
  • 1994: Sponsorship award from the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Association
  • 1995: Scholarship from the Mecklenburg Cultural Fund Foundation
  • 1995: Italy scholarship from the Art Academy Münster
  • 1996: Ireland grant from the Hillmoth-Gocke Foundation
  • 2000: Graduate grant from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • 2000: Caspar von Zumbusch Prize

Literature (selection)

  • Studio gallery . XVII paperback - 1996, LWL-Museumamt für Westfalen (1996) ISBN 978-3-92720-4-324
  • Klaus Geigle - if I hadn't seen it myself. by Klaus Geigle and Thomas Prautsch, publisher Peter Tedden; Edition: 1 (October 1, 2008) ISBN 978-3-94098-5-040

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ West German Artists Association Thomas Prautsch , accessed on October 29, 2016.
  2. ↑ Manfred Schneckenburger: Building blocks for light and shadow , accessed on October 29, 2016.
  3. ^ HG Eisenhut: Caspar von Zumbusch Prize , accessed on October 29, 2016.
  4. ↑ Timm Ulrich's search for traces - an exhibition project in the Mining History Museum in Münster , accessed on October 29, 2016.
  5. ↑ Andreas Moersener Model and Reality , accessed on October 29, 2016.
  6. ↑ Kunstverein Ahlen Thomas Prautsch views , accessed on October 29, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Prautsch, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main