Tony Torrilhon

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Tony Torrilhon (born September 27, 1931 in Melun ) is a French-German graphic artist , engraver and wood sculptor who lives and works mainly in Germany .

Life

Tony Torrilhon was born in Melun near Paris, the second of seven children of an engineer . He grew up in Paris from the age of nine and graduated from high school there in 1949. He then completed a medical degree and was awarded “summa cum laude” at the Sorbonne in 1957 with a thesis on pathology with Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Ä. PhD. During this time he began to paint in watercolor and had his first exhibitions in Paris. From 1958 to 1960 he did his military service as a field doctor in Algeria . After completing his military service, he decided to make a living only from art, and from 1961 studied at theAccademia di Belle Arti in Florence and from 1965 to 1972 in Berlin at the Hochschule der Künste . After completing his studies, he returned to France in 1972. However, he was unable to gain a foothold there either artistically or personally, so that after about two years he returned to Berlin.

Torillhon entered into a first marriage with three children in 1974. The marriage ended in divorce in 1979. In the 1970s, after experiments with oil painting, lithography and etchings, his work was mainly determined by copperplate engraving and was commercially successful. His style is characterized by precision and attention to detail, especially in the representations of natural objects.

From around 1983 Torrilhon turned increasingly to wood carving. In 1996 he and his partner, whom he married in 1999, bought a house in Rheinsberg and increasingly relocated the center of his life there. In 2003 the final move to Rheinsberg took place. He bought and renovated a house in downtown Rheinsberg, where he still lives and works today and maintains a gallery on the ground floor. In 2005 his second wife died. In 2013 he acquired German citizenship.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1954/1955/1957: Galerie Bénézit, Paris
  • 1958: Galerie Visconti, Paris; Giotto Gallery, Le Havre ; Badan Gallery, Geneva ; Galerie Antiquities, Houston (Texas)
  • 1959/1972: Galerie Visconti, Paris
  • 1964/1965: Participation in Artisti Stranieri in Firenze , Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
  • 1969: Participation in the Great Berlin Art Exhibition , Berlin
  • 1971/1974: Galerie Springer, Berlin
  • 1975: Participation in the West Berlin realists Majakowski Gallery, Berlin
  • 1977: Participation in West Berlin realists in Rostock and Moscow
  • 1978: Galerie Jeruschalajim, Berlin
  • 1978: Participation in erotic art , Galerie Schneider-Sato, Karlsruhe
  • 1978–1981: Annual exhibitions in the Taube Gallery, Berlin
  • 1984: Städtische Galerie im Park, Viersen ; Kulturhistorisches Museum, Osnabrück ; Hagener Kunstkabinett, Hagen
  • 1985: Jungfernstieg shop gallery, Berlin; Administrative Court, Frankfurt am Main
  • 1986: Siemens, Erlangen ; Colloquium Gallery, Berlin; Evangelical Consistory, Berlin; Central library, Moers
  • 1987: Galerie Wolf-Bütow, Oberursel (Taunus)
  • 1988: Altstadt-Galerie, Hamburg ; Gallery Prisma, Bovenden
  • 2000: Kurt Tucholsky Memorial, Rheinsberg Castle
  • 2001: Kunstamt Wilmersdorf - Kommunale Galerie, Berlin (retrospective for the 70th birthday)

Plant locations (selection)

Publications

  • Tony-Michel Torrilhon: La pathologie chez Bruegel. Theses pour le doctorat en médecine. Faculté de Médecine de Paris, 1957.
  • Tony Torrilhon: Catalog raisonné of the copperplate engravings 1976–1983. ISBN 3-92200221-8 .
  • Tony Torrilhon: Faces - Engravings and Embossing. Exhibition guide of the university library of the Free University of Berlin, ISBN 9783929619041 .

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personal data
SURNAME Torrilhon, Tony
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic artist, wood sculptor and engraver
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Melun