Description

Oskar Koller Emissary of light

• lithograph
• year: 2002
• signed
• numbered
• Edition of 100
• Sheet / print: 80 cm x 60 cm

Comes from the collection: In support of the Olympic team Salt Lake Edition “Colors in the Snow”
Famous artists support the German Olympic team on their way to Salt Lake City. A total of 16 internationally renowned artists, including Prof. Hans Baschang, Rüdiger Eschert, Prof. Max Uhlig and Giovanni Vetere, initiated the benefit edition “Colours in the Snow” at the initiative of Gallas Verlag (Munich) and Deutsche Sport-Marketing.

Oskar Koller was a German artist best known for his vibrant, semi-abstract watercolors of flowers and trees. Characterized by smooth areas of color, Koller used sprays and paint blots to create colorful, expressive images of nature. “The joy of painting made me an artist,” he explained of his practice. 'I felt the air; saw the flowers, the people, the houses. I have studied their shapes. Born on October 16, 1925 in Erlangen, Germany, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg, where he was a student of the painter Hermann Wilheims. In 1957 he won a scholarship to study in Paris, where he was first introduced to abstract art, leading to his own experiments with unrepresentative forms in his work. He was awarded the Culture Prize of the City of Erlangen in 1983, the first of several national awards, including the Friedrich Baur Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in 1994. In 2002, he established a foundation to preserve his work for the public. † He died on May 17, 2004 in Fürth, Germany, and the city's municipal gallery held a major retrospective of his work the following year.