|
|
Augusta Stylianou Gallery 
Katharina Fritsch (born February 14, 1956 in Essen, Germany) is a contemporary sculptor. She currently lives and works in Düsseldorf. Life Fritsch first studied history and art history at the University of Münster and, in 1977, transferred to Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. There, she was a student of Fritz Schwegler until 1984. In 2001, Fritsch was appointed Professor of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts, Münster, a post she held until 2010. She is currently Professor of Sculpture at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Katharina Fritsch is known for her sculptures and installations that reinvigorate familiar objects with a jarring and uncanny sensibility. She attracted international attention for the first time in the mid-1980s with life-size works such as a true-to-scale elephant. Fritsch’s art is often concerned with the psychology and expectations of visitors to a museum. Gary Garrels wrote that “One of the remarkable features of Fritsch’s work is its ability both to capture the popular imagination by its immediate appeal and to be a focal point for the specialized discussions of the contemporary art world. This all too infrequent meeting point is at the center of her work, as it addresses the ambiguous and difficult relationships between artists and the public and between art and its display—that is, the role of art and exhibitions and of the museum in the late twentieth century.” [1] In her working process, Fritsch combines the techniques of traditional sculpture with those of industrial production. She uses models to create moulds, from which the final sculptures are cast in materials such as plaster, polyester and aluminium. Many are made as editions, meaning that multiple casts are taken from one mould.[2] For the duration of some of her exhibitions, Fritsch has made her multiples available for sale at the respective museums. Her work has been the subject of exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Modern, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart; and the Museum Brandhorst, Munich. Her first major exhibition in the U.S. was held at Dia Center for the Arts in 1993.[3] She represented Germany at the 1995 Venice Biennale. She is represented by the Matthew Marks Gallery in New York. * 1984 Kunstpreis Rheinische Post, Düsseldorf References 1. ^ Gary Garrels, “Katharina Fritsch: An Introduction,” in Katharina Fritsch (San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1996), 12. Selected bibliography * Katharina Fritsch. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1996. ==--==--==
|
==++==++== |
