Leonhard Groetsch - Picture Gallery

Biography

New Paintings:

Other:"Dog plays Piano Sonata for the master"

Portraits:"Small Abnormalities"

Curriculum Vitae - Resume

Leonhard was born on Dec 18th 1947 in Wuerzburg (Germany) as the oldest of three brothers. In the city his grandfather and his father run a small restaurant and they run a vinyard 10 km outside of the town at a hill named Thüngersheimer Ravensburg. After an exam at secondary school level Leonhard visits the gymnasium and finishes with Abitur in 1968. Afterwards he studies economics in Wuerzburg and Munich and graduates as master at the University of Wuerzburg (1974). Near Wuerzburg he finds a job and after some years as assistant he is promoted to financial manager. He meets Andrea Sullivan, an American citizen in Wuerzburg, and they get married in 1979. In 1983 he starts work at a British company, which relocates from Stuttgart to Fulda, he and his wife move there a year later. Another step is a company in Marburg, also British. Since 1992 he works as consultant and since 1998 he has been working as a private tutor. And Leonhard is involved in arts from time to time.

No artistic career

His artistic skills are noticed early in primary school owing to a portrait of the German chancellor at that time. From the age of 10 to 18 he also takes piano lessons. When he is 17 he gets oil colours as a gift and he starts to paint with oils. But after final school exams academic studies in arts are not seriously taken into consideration. So Leonhard does studies in arts for himself and his works of art arise in retirement. Periods without any artistic activities change with periods where painting after painting is created. And secretely the wish to go public with paintings some day is not dying.

The oldest still existing paintings date back to 1964. In 1992 Leonhard organizes two exhibitions of his paintings at restaurants of Fulda. His father refuses even to look at fotos of the vernissage and his brothers are disconcerted. But the family of his wife supports him until today.

In the mid 90s, inspired by philosophical literature, he changes his opinion about what an art painting should be. He comes to believe that a painting shouldn't focus on the ego of the artist but on a positve message. A further insight is that all art is religous like it had been in earlier centuries. The books by the German philosopher Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912-2007) have an important influence, in which he explains the essence of art using the compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach as example. Because of a dream at night Leonhard comes in touch with the book "Kabbalah in Dreamlife of Man". His wife presents him this book written by the Hebrew Friedrich Weinreb (1910-1988), who makes the oldest Jewish Kabbalah understandable for the presence. And Leonhard becomes involved in the works of Swiss' Emma Kunz (1892-1963). Between 1995 and 1998 a text about her work Nr. 168 comes into being, which, however, has never been puhlished.

Since 1993-1994 Leonhard has begun to paint the Dolphin Series and the first paintings of the Gospel of John Series, which starts with the prototype of Count Art (1994), a style which bases on counted strokes. Attempts to get a gallerist fail and he stops to paint. In 2005 Leonhard meets the chairman of the Art Club Fulda by accident on the occasion of his exhibition, which he subsequently joins in 2005. Since then he is involved in one or two group exhibitions per year. In 2010 on the occasion of an exhibition of the club titled "Urbanity" two of his paintings are awarded from an independent jury as most artistic valueable paintings.

These sites have been online since 2005 and they are continously updated, in German as well as in English. Further information you will find on the introduction of the gallery sites as an overview and at each painting in detail.(Version Feb, 2012)

Exhibitions

1992 Individual exhibition "From the Stomach" paintings from 1968 to 1992,Fulda,

1992 Individual exhibition with paintings from 1992, Fulda,

2006 Group exhibition, "Violence", Art Club at Vonderau Museum Fulda,

2007 Group exhibition, "Strumpets and Guys", Art Club at Vonderau Museum Fulda,

2007 Group exhibition, "The Colour Red" at gallery Art Club Fulda,

2008 Group exhibition, "Black and White", Art Club at Vonderau Museum Fulda,

2008 Group exhibition, "My Favourite Painting" at gallery Art Club Fulda,

2009 Group exhibition, "Movement" at gallery Art Club Fulda,

2009 Group exhibition, "Human Beings", Art Club at Vonderau Museum Fulda,

2010 Group exhibition, "Art at Hotel ARTE" in cooperation with Art Club Fulda,

2010 Group exhibition "Urbanity" - Art Club Fulda at Vonderau Museum Fulda,

2010 Group exhibition "Insight, Outlook, Vista 2.0" - Art Club Fulda at NeuSehLand, Fulda,

2011 Group exhibition "About Courage" - Art Club Fulda,

2011 Group exhibition "Rendez-vous at Art Club" - Fulda - 65 pieces from 25 local artists

Links

Artbreak - Leonhard on Artbreak - an US portal of international contemporary art.

Saatchi&Saatchi UK - Leonhard´s profile at Saatchi, UK

Kunstverein Fulda - Gallery Art Club Fulda

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