"UNTER HOCHDRUCK" - Aktuelle Positionen des Holz- und Linolschnitts

Most collectors know the graphic art of printing from the times of the 'Brücke' - e.g.,  works from Kirchner, Schmidt-Rottluff, Heckel or Moeller, and perhaps also the woodcuts of Feininger, Campendonck, Masereel, or not least the large work of HAP Grieshaber. Nevertheless, in the last decades the art of lino- or woodcut played only a subordinate role in the art market because many private collectors had little interest in paper work on account of their conservatory delicacy - now this reluctance seems to be disappearing. There were  few new positions in this area caused by the fact that several colleges had neglected education in printing technologies. 

 

Nevertheless, this changed during the past years through the excellent education of young artists, e.g., in the College for Art and Design in Halle as well as in the College for Graphic and Book Arts in Leipzig where these traditions are solidly maintained. 

Thus the art magazine, 'ART',  writes in its November 2011 issue: ' On this basis high-flyers are possible, even if graphic education was rather tiresome to many students during their studies. Whether woodcut, etching or linocut, these technologies are currently experiencing a renaissance from which not only collectors profit. Above all, specialized workshops are flooded with enquiries. Now, after the painting boom, a regular print fever is rife in Leipzig. '

 

GENARO STROBEL comes from Leipzig and studied with Heribert C. Ottersbach. He shows in the KOELN ART exhibition, 'Unter Hochdruck ', large-size woodcuts which are worked on with different techniques - besides the usual gouge technology, Strobel also uses laser engraving techniques. 

 

FRANCA BARTHOLOMÄI from Halle, who works as a lecturer in Burg Giebichenstein, shows in her unusual, partly large-size printing on Japan paper 'unreal spaces in which dreamlike states, recollections and visions are presented in a very expressive and persuasive as well reflective way' (from the speech by Dr. Jürgen Pech at the presentation of the 1st prize in the Graphic Triennale Frechen in 2011 to Franca Bartholomäi).

 

PHILIPP HENNEVOGL became known during the last years through numerous exhibitions at home and abroad, and not least by his award of the Mainz Town Printer's Prize in 2010/11.  His up to two metre woodcuts show urban scaffolding structures, interiors dominated by technology, or still life-like 'heaps' of rubbish, the starting points for which he has photographed in Berlin and elsewhere. Together with woodcuts of artists Christiane Baumgartner and the Swiss artist, Franz Gertsch, he had a much-acclaimed exhibition in the Franz-Gertsch Museum in 2011. 

Hennevogl's works are represented in several museums and collections.

 

LUISA SCHATZMANN from Cologne, who studied at the end of the 70s with Prof. Karl Marx, Prof. W. Schriefers and Daniel Spoerri, has in her long-standing artistic activity alongside painting always created very expressive linocuts in which she dealt with subjects such as landscape, universe, myths and old cultures. 

 

Together with the above-mentioned artists, the Galerie KOELN-ART shows current works by Christina Sauer, Bernhard Eberle and Julia Siegmund as well as work from the gallery's graphic collection within the framework of this exhibition.