Turmspringerin (1988) Drawing by Friedrich Alexander Großkopf

FAG is a name abbreviation and means: Friedrich Alexander Großkopf. Anyone who wants to understand the Cologne painter Friedrich Alexander Großkopf properly should first of all take a close look at his 50 works of art presented here at Artmajeur. If the viewer is addressed by them, he should then read what the artist himself has to say about his art for a better understanding:

"The lines and the areas enclosed by them are composed by me into the picture plane and, with their surroundings, are related to the whole tableau.

Just as no note may be missing in a sonata, every curve and every line node are important and must be there. This is difficult if one does not paint abstractly and can shape the composition freely or leave it to chance.

The depicted, figures and landscape claim their right to look real. The graphic planar composition of the picture, which gives all expression to the line and all energy to the form, is influenced by early medieval book painting as well as by the fresco painting of the Italian Renaissance.

It is loosened up by superimposing the perspective peculiar to my painting, but not destroyed. This is not based on optical experience like the skenography of antiquity, but on geometric construction like the central perspective of the late Middle Ages.

It allows me a great deal of freedom, which I do not, however, allow to ramble unrestrainedly, but rather experience in a canon of my own making.

The depth that perspective brings must be compensated for by drawing and colour. A painting is and remains a two-dimensional surface into which one cannot walk."

Friedrich Alexander Großkopf

(More detailed explanations in German, English and French under News)

• Nationality: GERMANY
• Date of birth : 1916
• Artistic domains: Represented by a Gallery,
• Groups: Contemporary German Artists Artists presented by a gallery