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Monika Kropshofer (* in Neuwied, 14th November 1952 ); is a German painter und photographer. Since the middle of the years since 2000, Kropshofer has gained renown through her large-format painted landscape and architecture photographs which were created as a result of her many work journeys and stays in Europe, Africa und Asia.

Life and Work

From 1972 to 1977, Monika Kropshofer studied first Law at the Johannes Gutenberg-University in Mainz. After her two years as an articled clerk in Mainz, she worked as a lawyer from 1980, first in Mainz, then in Coblence, and took her doctorate in 1982. In 1983, Kropshofer opened her own Lawyer's Office and was active as a court lawyer at the Coblence High Court. She terminated this activity in 1990 to study the Historý of Art at the Rhine Friedrich Wilhelms University in Bonn. At the same time, she worked as a freelance artist, finishing her studies in 1995.[1]

Kropshofer began her autodidactic artistic training by experimenting with various picture material and bases. From the beginning, she turned her main attention to the combination of various media, especially photography and painting. Kropshofer projects landscape and architecture photographs [2] ) onto the most varied kinds of bases (glass, sheets of plastic, photographic paper, window blinds, plastic foils) and subsequently works on them with paint.[3][4][5] Here, Kropshofer does without any additional digital picture processing.[6] The photographs are taken during the artist's regular working trips and stays in Europe, Africa and South-East Asia.[7][8] Since the mid-2000's, the works have become larger in format and more far-reaching and from now on, extensive installations [9] and objects were also created.

Kropshofer's artistic discussion always turns around the formal dialogue between the object depicted and the media used. [10] Her method for doing this is the construction and deconstruction of spatiality, depending on each picture basis and the revelation of the appropriateness of the structures in landscape and architecture with the help of painting. Thus her works are in the tradition of photography's very own discourse, the question of reproduction and reality, fiction and real life. [11][12][13][14]

The artist lives and works in Boppard.[15]

Works in Public Collections

  • Ludwig Museum Coblence: Untitled (Island), 2010, 70 x 100 cm, mixed technique on digital print on plastic plate
  • City of Grimmen: Untitled (Grimmen), 2007, 2 works, each 30 x 45 cm, mixed technique on photo paper
  • Goethe-Institut Taiwan: Untitled (Vietnam), 2007, 50 x 75 cm, mixed technique on photo paper

Exhibitions (Selection)

  • May–June 2006: AquaTerra, District Administration of Bad Doberan
  • November 2006–February 2007: Faszination Wasser („The Fascination of Water“), Gallery of the Strandhotel Ahlbeck
  • May–June 2007: Rot(T)räume, Showroom Condehouse, Cologne
  • July–September 2007: Strukturen: Wasser und Backstein („Structures: Water and Brick“), Museum and Water Tower, Grimmen
  • September–November 2007: Lichtimpressionen („Light Impressions“), Gallery of the Technology Centre Greifswald
  • March–April 2008: Raumkompositionen („Space Compositions“) , Gallery Schöne, Andernach
  • May–June 2008: Transformationen (Transformations), Municipal Gallery Baumhaus, Wismar
  • October–November 2008: Wasser und Stein („Water and Stone“), German Arts CentreTaipeh
  • June–July 2009: Structure and Ornament, Hotel Intercontinental Hongkong (promoted by the German Consulate-General), Hongkong
  • February 2010: Hybrid, Espace Paragon, Luxemburg
  • April–May 2010: ArchiTextur, Central Rhine Museum, Coblence
  • March–May 2011: Interventionen, State Representation of the Rhineland-Palatinate, Berlin
  • January–February 2012: La dialectique de la réflexion, House of the Rhineland-Palatinate, Dijon
  • March–May 2012: About Arcadia, Media City Leipzig
  • July–October 2012: Changing Dream-Streams (I), Museum am Strom, Bingen, together with Elisabeth Bergner[16]
  • October–November 2012: Journey of Discovery, Gallery Baum, Seoul
  • February–March 2013: Raumwelten („Space Worlds“), State Parliament of the Rhineland-Palatinate, Mainz, together with Susan Geel
  • April–June 2013: Changing Dream-Streams (II), Museumkrems, Krems, zusammen mit Elisabeth Bergner
  • November 2013: Duett, Gallery Alfred Treiber, Vienna, together with Elisabeth Bergner
  • January–February 2014: Durchblick - Fotografie und Malerei („Understanding - Photography and Painting“), Gallery pack of patches, Jena
  • May–July 2014: New Works, Gallery photo-city, Rangoon

Literature

  • Beyer, Savoy, Tegethoff: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon (AKL) („General Lexicon of Artists“), Volume 82, Berlin 2014.
  • Changing Dream Streams, catalogue of the exhibition of the same title by the two artists Monika Kropshofer and Elisabeth Bergner, Boppard, 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-038410-3.
  • Interventionen: catalogue of the exhibition of the same title at the State Representation of the Rhineland-Palatinate, Berlin, 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-033741-3.

Weblinks

Single References

  1. Heinz Höfchen, Kropshofer, Monika. In: Beyer, Savoy, Tegethoff: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon („General Lexicon of Artists“), Volume 82, Berlin 2014. p. 71.
  2. Announcement of the Exhibition at Galerie Treiber
  3. Heinz Höfchen: Pas de deux: Art and Nature. Elisabeth Bergner and Monika Kropshofer in Dialogue. In: Changing Dream Streams, Catalogue of the Exhibition of the same Title in Bingen 2012 und Krems 2013, p. 21.
  4. Discussion of Exhibition on the page of the State Parliament of the Rhineland-Palatinate
  5. Faszinierende Kunst - Dr. Monika Kropshofer in Ahlbeck. In: Magazin Usedom Wollin exklusiv, Winter 2006, Access on January 20th 2015.
  6. Raumwelten entdecken. In: Staatszeitung, No.5 of February 25th 2013, access on January 20th 2015.
  7. Media City Leipzig: About Arcadia
  8. Le passe-muraille. Monika Kropshofer expose des techniques mixtes à l'Espace Paragon. In: Luxemburger Wort of February 21st 2010, access on January 20th, 2015.
  9. Kropshofer inszeniert den Keller. Künstlerin zeigt eine Installation im Gewölbe des Mittelrhein-Museums.(„Kropshofer sets the scene in the cellar. Artist shows Installation in the Vaults of the Central Rhine Museum“) In: Rhein-Zeitung of April 19th 2010, access on January 20th 2015.
  10. Blind Date. Skulptur trifft Foto. In: Allgemeine Zeitung of February 26th, 2013, access on January 20th 2015.
  11. Heinz Höfchen: The Dialectics of Reflection. On the Work of Monika Kropshofer, at: http://www.monika-kropshofer.de/de/, access on January 11th 2015
  12. Heinz Höfchen: Interventions. On Monika Kropshofer's new works, Boppard 2011, p. 6.
  13. Magazin der Media City Leipzig, Issue April 2012, p. 13
  14. Announcement of the Exhibition „Durchblick“ in Jena on January 30th 2014
  15. http://www.herrenhof-mussbach.de/index.php/events/icalrepeat.detail/2015/02/01/781/18/dr-monika-kropshofer-die-welt-an-sich-fotografie-und-malerei, access on January 11th 2015
  16. Welterbe im Dialog. (“World Heritage in Dialogue“) In: Niederösterreichische Nachrichten of April 2nd, 2013, access on January 20th 2015.



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