Franz Gertsch is a Swiss painter

Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

 known for his large format hyperrealistic

Hyperrealism (painting)

Hyperrealism is a genre of painting and sculpture resembling a high-resolution photograph. Hyperrealism is considered an advancement of Photorealism by the methods used to create the resulting paintings or sculptures...

 portraits.

Gertsch was born 1930 in Mörigen

Mörigen

Mörigen is a municipality in the Biel/Bienne administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.-Geography:Mörigen has an area of . Of this area, 60.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while 17.6% is forested...

, Switzerland

Switzerland

Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

. Between 1947 and 1952 he studied with Max von Mühlenen

Max von Mühlenen

Max von Mühlenen was a Swiss painter.-References:*This article was initially translated from the German Wikipedia....

 and Hans Schwarzenbach

Hans Schwarzenbach

Hans Schwarzenbach is a Swiss equestrian. He was born in Langnau im Emmental. He won silver medal in team eventing at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, together with Anton Bühler and Rudolf Günthardt. He also competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics....

 in Bern. In 1972, he took part in the documenta 5 in Kassel

Kassel

Kassel is a town located on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Kassel Regierungsbezirk and the Kreis of the same name and has approximately 195,000 inhabitants.- History :...

. Franz Gertsch's breakthrough was at the documenta V in Kassel in 1972 with his painting "Medici". He is known for his realistic Paintings and "Holzschnitte".

Exhibitions

• 2010 "10,000 Lives": Eighth Gwangju Biennale
  Gwangju Biennale
  The Gwangju Biennale, which started in September 1995 in the city of Gwangju in the South Jeolla province of South Korea, was Asia's first contemporary art biennale. The purpose of Gwangju Biennale is globalization of art and it respect diversity rather than uniformity...
  
  
• 2006 "Franz Gertsch: Holzschnitte" Albertina, Vienna
  Albertina, Vienna
  The Albertina is a museum in the Innere Stadt of Vienna, Austria. It houses one of the largest and most important print rooms in the world with approximately 65,000 drawings and approximately 1 million old master prints, as well as more modern graphic works, photographs and architectural drawings...
  
  
• 2003 "Franz Gertsch", Museum Folkwang
  Museum Folkwang
  Museum Folkwang is a major collection of 19th and 20th century art in Essen, Germany. The museum was established in 1922 by merging the Essener Kunstmuseum, which was founded in 1906, and the private Folkwang Museum of the collector and patron Karl Ernst Osthaus in Hagen, founded in 1901.The term...
  
  , Essen
  Essen
  - Origin of the name :In German-speaking countries, the name of the city Essen often causes confusion as to its origins, because it is commonly known as the German infinitive of the verb for the act of eating, and/or the German noun for food. Although scholars still dispute the interpretation of...
  
  

External links

• Franz Gertsch Museum