Wolfgang Pietrzok

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wolfgang Pietrzok (* 1949 in Eilum , Lower Saxony ) is a German photographer and art educator .

life and work

Pietrzok studied from 1970 to 1971 at the Werkkunstschule Hannover with Raimund Girke . He then studied from 1971 to 1975 at the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste / GHS Kassel with Floris Michael Neusüss , Reiner Kallhardt and Harry Kramer . He completed his training with the first and second state examinations for the artistic teaching profession. He lives and works in Saarbrücken and Viens (Provence).

Wolfgang Pietrzok works primarily in groups of works. Since the 90s he has been developing serial works and the series of works called "Pinches". Influenced by Floris Neusüss and his nudograms as well as by Yves Klein's anthropometries of the blue era, photographic works of female and male nudes were created in predominantly blue color on a pane of glass. In addition to individual images, Pietrzok recently staged multi-part tableaus, which, thanks to the targeted planning of the recording fields, made it possible to intensify movements and fragmentations. In 2004 the series of works of “Cubes” followed with motifs from the quarry of Ménerbes / Provence and pressed steel cubes from Saarstahl / Völklingen . From 2013 the series "on the way / en route" was created with decaying miniatures of well-known architectural monuments.

Exhibitions

Wolfgang Pietrzok has been represented with his work in numerous exhibitions at home and abroad since 1989.

Bruise; Source: W. Pietrzok

Solo exhibitions

  • 1990 Saarländisches Künstlerhaus-Saarbrücken; Oeil-Forbach Gallery
  • 1991 Picasso-Homécourt Gallery
  • 1992 gallery in Zwinger-St. Helix; Espace Gérard Philipe-Jarny
  • 1993 Maison de la Culture-Metz;
  • 1994 gallery in focus Cologne; Gallery Leismann-St. Ingbert; Gallery Light and Shadow Regensburg
  • 1995 “Empreintes” Gallery de l'Arsenal Metz
  • 1996 Studio Fine Arts Berlin
  • 1997 Culture foyer of the city of Saarbrücken
  • 1998 Historic Town Hall-Kleinblittersdorf; Gallery de la Médiathèque-Forbach
  • 1999 Sub'Art-Nancy
  • 2000 Ackermann-Bergisch Gladbach Gallery
  • 2001 Gallery Nieser-Stuttgart; Gallery “Caves St. Croix” -Metz
  • 2005 Marlies Hanstein-Saarbrücken Gallery
  • 2006 Gallery Nieser-Stuttgart; Atelier Fernand Bourgeois-Apt
  • 2015 "Bruises retrospectively", Galerie Nieser-Stuttgart
  • 2016 "on the way / en route", Galerie Nieser-Stuttgart

Group exhibitions: (selection)

Sisyphus meets Leonardo; Source: W. Pietrzok

Wolfgang Pietrzok has been represented with his work in numerous exhibitions at home and abroad since 1989.

  • Participation in the state art exhibitions of Saarland (1989, 1991, 1995, 2000, 2004, 2017)
  • 1990: Museum Mia Münster St. Wendel
  • 1990: Mois de la Photo 1990 at the Goethe-Institut Paris : German photography of the 80s from the collection of the Museum Ludwig Cologne
  • * 1991: Exhibition "Lust for Pictures": Altes Museum Berlin , Galerie Rähnitzgasse Dresden, Museum Ludwig Cologne , Museum of Art and Commerce Hamburg , State Art Collection Cottbus, Foto Forum Bremen
  • 1992: German Photo Days Frankfurt: "Art with Photography"
  • 1994: Exhibition »frivole« at the Mannheim Art Association
  • 1995: "393 Years of Photography": Saarland Artists' House Saarbrücken
  • 1995: "The color white": Gallery in focus Cologne
  • 1996: "Three Positions on Contemporary Erotic Photography": Gallery in Cologne
  • 1996: "Festival off": Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie , Arles
  • 1996: "The color blue": German Photo Days Frankfurt
  • 1996: »The Aesthetics of Desires«: Camera and Photo Museum Leipzig
  • 1996: "Erotic Photography": House of Photography, New City Hall, Prague
  • 1997: Gallery in focus for the international photo scene in Cologne
  • 1998: "Gruber Collection" in the Museum Ludwig-Cologne
  • 1999: "Art in a Box": Saarland Artists' House
  • 2000: Galerie Ackermann at the Cologne art fair 2000
  • 2000: International Photo Scene Cologne 2000
  • 2004: "Unveiled - The nude in 20th century photography": Städtische Museen Heilbronn
  • 2004: Exhibition "Explore" Gallery in focus Cologne
  • 2007: "ocultos", Fundación Canal de Isabel I
  • 2011: “A nos 20 ans”, Shimoni Gallery, Metz
  • 2012: »Artists at Wu«, Wesenberg
  • 2015: Opus Photo Prize 2015 - Saarbrücken, Luxembourg

Publications (selection)

Ménerbes 335-6; Source: W. Pietrzok


Works in public collections

Numerous works in private and public collections, including Museum Ludwig , Cologne; Gruber Collection, Cologne; Bibliothèque Nationale , Paris; Museum of Applied Arts (New Collection) Munich; Saarland Museum Saarbrücken; Scheid Collection, Überherrn; Landesbank in Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland ; City of Saarbrücken; Ministry of Culture of the Saarland.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Wolfgang Pietrzok. Artist Lexicon Saar, accessed on February 15, 2017 .

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Pietrzok, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photo artist and art teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Eilum , Lower Saxony