Thoralf Knobloch

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Thoralf Knobloch (* 1962 in Bautzen ) is a contemporary German painter .

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In 1988 he began studying painting at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts , which he graduated with a diploma in 1994 under Ralf Kerbach . He lives and works in Berlin.

Knobloch's works can be found in the holdings of the Neue Meister gallery of the Dresden State Art Collections in the Albertinum .

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Thoralf Knobloch Uferweg south

Thoralf Knobloch mostly works with everyday motifs - objects , rooms or scenes from the immediate, familiar environment. Whether individual objects or views of the landscape , “there are always secondary scenes and fragments, narrowly defined, individually viewed sections of the visible world”.

The image composition works on the principle of the cutout. With great concentration on detail, the artist presents fragments as disused snapshots. “The painter's brush has the power to send optical and narrative disruptive elements into exile outside the canvas”.

His highly focused depictions appear far and near at the same time. For the painter, distancing is a means of observation. There is a certain longing , but also an interest in the diversity of the things and the outside world .

The strict, at first glance purely photo-realistic painting style is often supplemented by abstract, seemingly arbitrary details. That is why the pictures take on a surrealistic trait every now and then . Concentrating on one object prompts Knobloch to examine the selected motifs in series. The direction of view is shifted minimally, or it is switched from a full to a close-up. This is how painterly studies of objects and their appearance emerge.

Thoralf Knobloch boat in the ice

Thoralf Knobloch's pictures evoke an inner slowdown in perception. The painter always returns to familiar places, takes on familiar objects again. Knobloch's paintings are primarily observational. They show everything and leave a lot open. They encourage reflection and trigger associations .

Knobloch opens up the aesthetic side of the objects and places that are not aesthetically remarkable in the usual sense. His pictures are “a plea for slowness and concentration, for deepening and expanding the everyday view by pausing and of course for the possibilities of painting to tear the banal object out of its banal context through aesthetic quality”.

Solo exhibitions

  • 2019: Jägerschenke , Galerie Hartwich, Sellin
  • 2018: Sample , Gallery Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden
  • 2017: Uferweg North , GAA Gallery, Wellfleet, USA
  • 2015: Paintings , GAA Gallery, Wellfleet, USA
  • 2013: Hinterland , Städtische Galerie Dresden - art collection
  • 2012: Thoralf Knobloch: 2012 , James Flach Galleri, Stockholm
  • 2012: In Abseits , Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus
  • 2011: Wayside Cross , Wilkinson Gallery, London
  • 2010: Hold the Fort , Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden
  • 2010: Thoralf Knobloch (with Irene Hofmann) , Kunstverein, Bautzen
  • 2009: Thoralf Knobloch , Tony Shafrazi Gallery, NY
  • 2009: Eating, drinking, fishing , Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Berlin
  • 2008: Of Reality and Truth , Sparkasse Essen, Essen
  • 2007: Thoralf Knobloch , Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London
  • 2005: regional & seasonal , Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden
  • 2004: Doubt and Calm , Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London
  • 2003: Country party and cuckoo call , Michael Neff Gallery, Frankfurt / Main
  • 2003: Petit Côte , Vattenfall Europe, Berlin
  • 2002: Streif- & Jagdzüge , Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden

Group exhibitions

  • 2019: POINT OF NO RETURN , MdbK. Museum of Fine Arts , Leipzig
  • 2019: Bilderberg_89_Bilderflut , Municipal Gallery AdA, Meiningen
  • 2018: AGAINST FORGETTING II , GAA Gallery, Wellfleet, USA
  • 2018: Against Forgetting I , GAA Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA
  • 2018: Concurrent Realities , GAA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
  • 2017: Freimütig , Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden
  • 2016: Made in Germany: Contemporary Art from the Rubell Family Collection , McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
  • 2016: Thoralf Knobloch, Jan Muche, Klaus Walther , Galerie Hartwich, Sellin
  • 2015: Collateral Drawing 3 , Rosalux, Berlin
  • 2014: Architect, Busdriver, Two Bridges - 20 Years Society for Modern Art in Dresden , Lipsiusbau , Dresden
  • 2013: 25 , Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Berlin
  • 2013: Roofs & roof landscapes , Museum Kitzbühel , Kitzbühel
  • 2012: Cold bark - rare earths. Landscape in Contemporary Art , Märkisches Museum Witten , Witten
  • 2012: divided / undivided. Art in Germany from 1945 - 2010 , State Art Collections , New Masters Gallery , Dresden
  • 2010: The Promised Land , State Art Collections , Albertinum , Dresden
  • 2010: Art Coordinate System , Neuer Sächsischer Kunstverein , Dresden
  • 2010: Fooled! A cultural history , Altonaer Museum , Hamburg
  • 2009: Defiance & Melancholy. German Painting , City Art Museum Helsinki
  • 2008: Living Landscapes. A Journey through German Art , National Art Museum, Beijin
  • 2007: Reopening - Part 2 , Autocenter, Berlin
  • 2005: The Shimmering , Goethe Institute, Rotterdam

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mathias Wagner: So close in the far distance. Country Roads, Take me Home, to the Place I Belong ... In: Sparkasse Essen (Ed.): Thoralf Knobloch: Of Reality and Freedom . Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-931326-63-0 .
  2. ↑ Johannes Schmidt: The egalitarian look . In: Städtische Galerie Dresden - art collection, art museum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus (Hrsg.): Thoralf Knobloch: Im Abseits / Hinterland . DISTANZ, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-942405-74-4 , p. 11 .
  3. ↑ Johannes Schmidt: The egalitarian look . In: Städtische Galerie Dresden - art collection, art museum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus (Hrsg.): Thoralf Knobloch: Im Abseits / Hinterland . DISTANZ, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-942405-74-4 , p. 14 .
personal data
SURNAME Knobloch, Thoralf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Bautzen