Victor Kraus

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Victor Kraus (* 1954 in Ansbach ) is a German painter.

Kraus studied from 1977 to 1982 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Horst Sauerbruch . He lives and works in Munich and Kinding .

In his work, Kraus deals with themes and the quality of painting of the classical modern age and develops them further in a contemporary, experimental and free way. The main theme of his partly large-format pictures is the landscape in its different manifestations - water surfaces, fields, sea and lake shores, also city landscapes as well as interiors and floral still lifes . There are also examples of figurative painting, although people are usually absent from his landscapes and interiors.

Still life Happy Tuesday , 2018
Victor Kraus in front of the acrylic canvas 'Colorful Landscape'

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Prizes and awards

  • 1982: Grant for painting from the city of Munich
  • 1984: Winner of the competition of the art magazine ART on the topic: German landscape today
  • 1984: Prize for Fine Arts, Nuremberg
  • 1985: State grant Lower Saxony
  • 1986: Bavarian State Prize for Fine Arts
  • 1990/1991: USA scholarship from the Bavarian Ministry of Culture, San Francisco
  • 2011: Winner of the Bavaria-wide competition KUNSTamBANDamLIMES

Publications

  • Victor Kraus. Pictures . Exhibition Villa Stuck, Munich 1984.
  • Victor Kraus. Installations . Exhibition Sprengel Museum, Hanover 1987.
  • Victor Kraus . DUAL. Kunstvereine Braunschweig, Heidelberg, Bamberg, Galerie Thomas Munich, 1989/90
  • Victor Kraus . Watercolor / collages. Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 1991
  • Used papers . Exhibition in the Galerie Michael Beck Leipzig. Beck & Eggeling. Düsseldorf 1995
  • Autistic Dialogues . Exhibition catalog. Beck & Eggeling, Düsseldorf 1999
  • Early Spaces - New Land . Edited by Burkhard Leismann. Wienand, Cologne 2007. ISBN 978-3-87909-939-9
  • Erich Schneider (Ed.): This deep surface . Exhibition catalog. Schweinfurt 2012. ISBN 978-3-936042-71-9

literature

  • Alfred Welti: On the competition: German landscape today in: Art - Das Kunstmagazin , Vol. 3, 1984, p. 38 ff., P. 53
  • Hanne Weskott: Kunstforum International , vol. 71/72, 1984, p. 338 ff.
  • Zdenek Felix : Symbols for the unknown Victor Kraus. Installation, Sprengel Museum, Hanover , 1987
  • Joachim Hauschild: Delivered to the old forms in: Art - Das Kunstmagazin , Vol. 9, 1987, pp. 110 ff.
  • Ludwig Zerull : Victor Kraus, in: Kunstforum International , vol. 92, 1987/88, p. 256 ff.
  • In the meantime: Art under construction, Baumeister -Zicht für Architektur, Vol. 2, 1999
  • Reinhard Spieler and Annegret Gerleit: Victor Kraus: Painting as a floating balloon in catalog book: Victor Kraus, Autistic Dialogues, 1999, pp. 9–11
  • Alfred Nemeczek : Shot on the Field of Beauty , in Victor Kraus: Early Rooms - New Land, 2007
  • Ingenious creativity. For the 60th birthday exhibition in the Neuendorf Gallery in Memminger Zeitung, December 13, 2014, No. 287
  • Hans-Wolfgang Bayer: "Lyrical Abstraction" in the catalog book "Victor Kraus - Romantic Warrior", Kreuzherrensaal Memmingen , 2018, pp. 18–22
  • Stylus Magazin 03/2018: Monograph Victor Kraus, pp. 50–57

Working in public collections

  • Municipal Gallery in the Lenbachhaus, Munich
  • Kunsthalle Schweinfurt
  • Bavarian State Painting Collection / Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
  • Bavarian Ministry of Culture
  • Bavarian State Chancellery
  • Municipal Artothek Munich
  • Niederreuther Foundation
  • Art Museum Celle
  • Deutsche Bank Frankfurt
  • Stadtsparkasse Munich
  • Munich Airport
  • ADAC Collection, Munich
  • Munich Re, Munich
  • North / LB Hanover
  • TaylorWessing, Munich
  • Schleswig-Holstein State Museum, Gottdorf Castle
  • Art collection Wertingen
  • Boca Raton Museum Florida, USA
  • Jack Welch Collection, New York, USA

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kunstmarkt.com
  2. ^ Monopoly article , mention of the exhibition in the Sprengel Museum
  3. ^ Art Association Braunschweig
  4. ↑ Gottorf Castle
  5. ^ Catalog "Early Spaces - New Land" , Städtische Galerie Rosenheim, April 4, 2008
  6. ^ Exhibition Kunsthalle Schweinfurt
  7. ↑ Article on the opening of the Memminger Meile
personal data
SURNAME Kraus, Victor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Ansbach