Heinz Trokes, artist and art
Born Aug 15 1913, Birth Hamborn, Germany.
Died Apr 22 1997 deathBerlin.
Style and technique, exhibitions: Painting, Expressionism, Documenta Kassel,Artist biography, artworks, statement, interview, review, exhibition:
In the 1950s, Trökes was ranked together with Willi Baumeister, Ernst Wilhelm Nay and Fritz Winter, as one of the major exponents of abstract art in Germany. Important art historians of his time, such as Will Grohmann and Werner Haftmann, paid tribute to Heinz Trökes as one of the most promising and interesting artists of his generation…
Jedes Bild hat sein eigenes Abenteuer, sein unvergleichliches Risiko. Da gibt es auch nichts zum Anknüpfen, keine Fortsetzung, Rezepte sind nicht anwendbar – ausser man sähe nur einen geraden Weg und wollte nicht seine eigenen Nebenstrassen erkunden.
Painting
From 1932 Heinz Trökes attends evening classes at the Krefeld School of Arts and Crafts, taking up studies there with Johannes Itten for three years in 1933. For a living he works as a decorator and draws textile designs in Augsburg…
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