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Franz Gertsch Polyfocal Allover Swiss Institute
Franz Gertsch is numbered among the most significant contemporary artists in Switzerland. From the time of his international breakthrough in 1972 until the present day, he has created a wide range of paintings and graphic works, which attempt a very special approach to reality.
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Franz Gertsch Malerei realer als die Wirklichkeit
Inspirierende Bilder - Überraschende Geschichten Was Kunstwerke uns erzählen ; Erlebnisworkshop für Gruppen ; Lehrpersonen ; Kinderatelier ; Artcafé . Artcafé ; Menü 3. - 5. Januar 2024. Franz Gertsch On Show . 23.09.2023 - 03.03.2024 . Cantonale Berne Jura Sibylle & Narziss . 02.12.2023 - 21.01.2024 . Esther Ernst Verzeichnungen .
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Franz Gertsch. Geheimnis Natur Artinside
Projects 22 : Franz Gertsch : The Museum of Modern Art, New York, May 11-June 26, 1990 Author Gertsch, Franz Date 1990 Publisher The Museum of Modern Art. Neue Bilder 1955 Anlikerkeller, Bern. Grafik und Malerei 1949 Galerie Rene Simmen, Bern selected group exhibitions 1978 Venice Biennale. Dal la Natura all'Arte. Dall'Arte alia Natura.
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Werke von Franz Gertsch / Museum Franz Gertsch
GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP via Getty Images Franz Gertsch, the Swiss artist acclaimed for his huge hyperrealist paintings that captured the rapturous energy of '60's and '70's counterculture, died on.
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Franz Gertsch Bilder sind meine Biografie NDR.de Kultur Kunst SchleswigHolstein
Franz Gertsch is a Swiss Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1930. Their work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Landesmuseum Zurich, The Swiss National Museum have featured Franz Gertsch's work in the past. Franz Gertsch's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices.
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Marina schminkt Luciano / Museum Franz Gertsch
Franz Gertsch-Bilder von 1980-1986, Museum moderner Kunst Vienna, Austria 1985 Miscellanea-Miscellanées, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland 1982 Franz Gertsch and selected works by Friedel Dzubas, Herbert Ferber, Adolph Gottlieb, Nancy Graves.., Knoedler Zürich, Switzerland 1981-1982 Franz Gertsch-Major Works, Louis K. Meisel Gallery New York.
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Werke von Franz Gertsch / Museum Franz Gertsch
Franz Gertsch was born in 1930 in Mörigen, Bern, and lives and works in Rüschegg-Heubach, Switzerland. Gertsch has participated in several important international exhibitions over his career, perhaps most significantly in Documenta 5 (1972) in a section organized by Harald Szeemann, Jean-Christophe Ammann and others, that looked to artists.
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Franz Gertsch / Museum Franz Gertsch
Obgleich er von Fotos bzw. von Diaprojektionen ausgeht, folgen die Bilder einer eigenen Logik, die auf absolute Stimmigkeit aller Elemente zielt. Einen besonderen Stellenwert im Werk von Franz Gertsch nehmen die Holzschnitte ein.
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Es malt sich wie von selbst / Museum Franz Gertsch
1945. Franz Gertsch delves into books on Hodler by Charles Albert Loosli. The latter advises him to train as an artist and specialise in nude drawing. Gertsch, influenced by Ingres, makes his first nude drawings in Paolo's studio. 1946. Selbstbildnis (Self-portrait), pencil drawing. First linear woodcuts and linocuts.
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Franz Gertsch Malerei realer als die Wirklichkeit
257 × 391 cm Privatsammlung / private collection courtesy Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin Franz Gertsch Franz Gertsch, born in 1930 in the Swiss town of Mörigen, is numbered among the most significant contemporary artists in Switzerland.
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Franz Gertsch / Museum Franz Gertsch
Franz Gertsch (* 8. März 1930 in Mörigen; † 21. Dezember 2022 [1] in Riggisberg) war ein Schweizer Maler und Grafiker. Internationale Bekanntheit erlangte er durch seine grossformatigen hyperrealistischen Portraits. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Leben 2 Werk 3 Auszeichnungen (Auswahl) 4 Ausstellungen (Auswahl) 5 Hauptwerke 6 Literatur 7 Zitate 8 Weblinks
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Frühling, Sommer, Herbst und Winter / Museum Franz Gertsch
A Swiss painter who came to prominence in the early 1970s in Europe, where he is better known than in the U.S., Franz Gertsch is the subject of the exhibition "The Seasons." Four expansive.
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Art Splash Franz Gertsch Seasons Works 1983 2011 Kunsthaus Zürich
Franz Gertsch (8 March 1930 - 21 December 2022) was a Swiss painter and printmaker who was known for his large format photorealistic portraits and detailed studies of nature. Biography Gertsch was born 1930 in Mörigen, Switzerland. [1] Between 1947 and 1952 he studied with Max von Mühlenen and Hans Schwarzenbach in Bern. [1]
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Maler Franz Gertsch feiert 90. Geburtstag Kultur Bote der Urschweiz
Franz Gertsch, a Swiss artist acclaimed as one of the masters of hyper-realistic painting and whose work often evoked a flashbulb-like sharpness on subjects ranging from landscapes to punk.
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Drei unbekannte Frühwerke von Franz Gertsch in Bern entdeckt
The Swiss Institute 's "Polyfocal Allover" centered on a series of acrylic paintings the artist (b. 1930) made in the 1970s that portray countercultural youths who belonged to a commune in Lucerne..
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Aelggi Alp, 1971 Franz Gertsch
Bilder sind meine Biografie, Kunsthalle zu Kiel. 2014. Triptychon Guadeloupe, Museum Folkwang, Essen. 2013. Geheimnis Natur, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden.. Franz Gertsch - Gemälde und Holzschnitte 1987 bis 1997, Museum Kurhaus Kleve. 1997. Landschaften und Porträts, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin.