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Philipp Froehlich - Marchen (Fairytales) (English, German, Hardcover)
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Philipp Froehlich - Marchen (Fairytales) (English, German, Hardcover)
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Romantic landscape painting and the tradition of recounting fairy
tales have their roots in the 19th century. The painter Philipp
Froehlich transposes them to the present. In his works Hansel and
Gretel are dressed like people of the 21st century, and his scenes
of nature, which are rendered in a style that approaches
photorealism, provide a sharp contrast to the anti-modernism that
is usually associated with fairy tales. While we were able to
identify with the heroes from the picture books of our childhood,
the figures in Froehlich's art seem eerily removed from us. The
canvases are huge and give the impression to viewers that they have
become part of the pictures themselves. Froehlich studied stage
design in Dusseldorf until 2002, and gradually switched from
theatre work to painting. But his artistic approach is still
influenced by his initial training. Beginning with notes and
preparatory studies, Froehlich develops models, some of which are
elaborately designed, to try out the composition of the future
picture. The resulting stage-like, almost cinematic quality of his
paintings leads to an intriguing mixture of precise, cool realism
and soft painterly effects - as if we were gazing into a distorting
mirror between reality and fantasy. Text in English and German.
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