Hans Fronius Painting 1903-1988
to painting
has in the graphic art, Hans Fronius captured a wide range: from the black chalk, Indian ink wash drawing with brush and pen, from the monotype of the woodcut, to lithography, etching and aquatint. He won a full range of expressive possibilities of his powerful, rousing drawing.
The black and white is one way, the other provides the color. Fronius has always been next to the graphic oil painting when operated in the shadows. He has forced the color in his world and always initially were laws of the drawing was taken over in the oil painting, often the colors were even in a dark gloom stuck. Fronius But the world has captured the colors, and all the nuances, all the internal excitation. Its color palette is free, powerful and not stick to the subject. It is not the knowledge of an intellectual mind determined to make things, but by a huge internal capacity deployed but without the graphical to transfer funds into the brush. His paintings are expressive, committed in characteristic style and color, the thematic, the representational. Hans Fronius was always a singular, unwavering and walked away from all the fashion trends on his way.
His thematic fund was enormous. From cityscapes and landscapes, such as Amsterdam, Antwerp, or London, Paris and New York, one finds also a large number of portraits, pictures of his family members or related parties as well as motifs from the religious sphere and the world literature. An important mechanism unit is that of the paraphrases. Suggestions, taken from the broad portfolio of art-historical tradition, compress into a dialogue that he and his Stilmitteln neu führt.
"Inwendig voller Figuren sein" (Künstlerzitat) - war ihm in die Wiege gelegt.
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Regarding painting
Within the graphic techniques Hans Fronius conquered a wide range for himself: from black crayon, shift Indian ink to brushdrawing and pendrawing, from monotypie beyond woodcut to lithography, aquatinta and etching. Therewith he covered the whole range of expression of his powerful breathtaking of drawing.
Black and white painting is one way, the other one is colour painting. From the very beginning Fronius had exercised oilpainting alongside with graphics. He forced colour into his work and thus applied the rules of drawing to oilpainting. Very often the colours themselves were stuck in a dark gloom. But Fronius conquered the world of colours; with all their shades and their inner excitement.
His world of colours is free, strong and is not centered on items. It is as well not determined by knowledge of an intellectual mind, but by an enormously developed inner ability without transfering the graphical means into the brush. His painting is expressive in stroke and colour and bound to subjects, as well as objectives. So Hans Fronius remained an individualist, who made his way unconfused and far away from fashionable trends.
His stock of themes was enormous. Apart from landscapes and views of, for example
Amsterdam, Antwerp or London, Paris and New York, you can find a variety of portraits, pictures of family members or close persons as well as from religious motives life or world literature. An important field of his work are the paraphrase. Pulse taken from the everlasting resources of historical art concentrate on a dialogue he directs through his kinds of style.
"To be full of figures on the inside" (quotation of the artist) - what a talent nature had given him.
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