Erwin Pfrang

Erwin Pfrang ( born October 23, 1951 in Munich) is a German painter and draftsman.

Life and work

Pfrang studied from 1974-1979 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He then spent many years as a freelance artist in Montepulciano, Val d' Orcia and Catania in Italy, interspersed with sojourns in Munich and Augsburg. He currently lives and works in Berlin.

Carla Schulz- Hoffmann is attempting a classification of the artist: " The retreat in an alternative context in the small world of a subjective microcosm is lived by artists such as Erwin Pfrang with all the consequences that all restrictions and inconveniences. A similar attitude yet encountered in the 20th century, perhaps with Jean Fautrier, but especially in wolf over which the friend Henri -Pierre Roché wrote a concise characterization that could apply equally to Erwin Pfrang: How the worm her house, so sinters wolf his drawings - and of course in pain. '"

Erwin Pfrang is represented by Galerie Fred Jahn ( Munich) and David Nolan Gallery (New York).

Literature and painting

His lifelong passion for literature was reflected in particular in the intensive involvement with the work of Irish writer James Joyce. So he created cycles of drawings to Dublin and Ulysses. The New York Times described the exhibition of his drawings to the Circe episode of Ulysses at the David Nolan Gallery as " brilliant solo debut ". Other graphic works are devoted to the story Tubutsch the expressionist Albert Ehrenstein and the opera The Intelligence Park by Gerald Barry (libretto Vincent Deane ).

Objectivity

On the importance of objectivity in his works Pfrang says: " The object- freed painting presupposes that we already know what reality is. Do we really not a foregone conclusion, however, questionable because questionable result of our senses, we are encouraged to reality only produce ( Günter Eich), the world and its objects eavesdrop on their putative nature towards; and in the case of the painter tap out with the cane of the brush. "

Pictures in public collections

Exhibitions (selection)

Literature (selection )

  • Erwin Pfrang: drawings. Exhibition catalog: Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, 1984, text: Dieter Kuhrmann, Erwin Pfrang
  • Wolfgang Holler: Character Contemporary Art: Collection Prince Franz of Bavaria, exhibition catalog: State of Prints and Drawings, Munich, 1988, pp. 147-149.
  • Roberta Smith: Review by Alberto Giacometti: Prints & Erwin Pfrang, Frank Guenzel, Rudi Tröger: Drawings, David Nolan Gallery, New York, The New York Times, January 6, 1989.
  • Artists '89 at Palais Preysing, exhibition catalog: Bayerische Vereinsbank, Munich, 1989, p.77 -83, 95, text: Carla Schulz- Hoffmann.
  • Erwin Pfrang: Circe Drawings Based on James Joyce's 'Ulysses', exhibition catalog: David Nolan Gallery, New York, 1991, Text: Erwin Pfrang.
  • Michael Kimmelman: Review of Circe Drawings, David Nolan Gallery, The New York Times, September 13, 1991.
  • Alan Jones: review of Circe Drawings, David Nolan Gallery, New York, Carte Blanche, September 16, 1991.
  • 9th National the drawing Augsburg: Small Worlds - Private in Contemporary Art, exhibition catalog: City Savings Bank, Augsburg, 1994, pp. 94-95, text: Gode Krämer.
  • Joyce, James, Dubliners, translation: Harald Beck; Afterword: Wolfgang Hilbig; Illustrations: Erwin Pfrang, Reclam, Leipzig, 1994
  • Roberta Smith: Review by Dublin Drawings and Related Works, Nolan / Eckman Gallery, New York, The New York Times, October 20, 1995.
  • 6 personalization, exhibition catalog: Castelluccio di Pienza- La Foce, Siena, 1997, pp. 26-28, Publisher: Plinio de Martiis, Text: Alan Jones.
  • Erwin Pfrang: Works on Paper & Odysseus and no end, exhibition catalog (2 volumes): State of Prints and Drawings, Munich, 1998 Text: Claudia Denk, Tilman Falk, Michael Semff.
  • Erwin Pfrang: I0 & LUI, exhibition catalog: Nolan / Eckman Gallery, New York, 1999.
  • Erwin Pfrang: images, exhibition catalog: National Gallery of Modern Art, Munich, Verlag Fred Jahn, Munich, 1999 Text: Peter Eike Meier, Carla Schulz- Hoffmann.
  • Carroll Dunham: Erwin Pfrang. In: Bomb, No. 69, December 1999, pp. 94-97.
  • Lynn Gawell: The Muse Is Within: The Psyche in the Century of Science. In: Dreams 1900-2000, Cornell University Press, Binghamton University Art Museum, State University of New York, 2000, pp. 49-50.
  • Frank Guenzel: in Move, exhibition catalog: Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, 2001.
  • Christa -Maria Lerm Hayes: Illustrations with a Difference. In: Joyce in Art, exhibition catalog: Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, 2004, p 63
  • Gianni Robustelli: Erwin Pfrang, PhD thesis (PDF, 888 kB): Università degli Studi di Genova, Genoa, 2004.
  • Erwin Pfrang, " draft a speech " in: Erwin Pfrang. Illustrations for James Joyce Dubliners, Center for Advanced Studies, LMU, Munich, 2013, pp. 3-7
  • Tobias Döring, " Erwin Pfrang Joyce's Dubliners illustrated " in: Erwin Pfrang. Illustrations for James Joyce Dubliners, Center for Advanced Studies, LMU, Munich, 2013, pp. 9-16
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