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Heinz Trökes (15 August 1913 – 22 April 1997) was a German painter,
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Biography

Trökes was born in
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. After completing his ''Abitur'' (school leaving examination) in 1933, Trökes was a pupil of
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in
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from 1933 to 1936. From 1936 to 1939, he lived as a painter in
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and earned his living designing textiles with the '' J. P. Bemberg'' company. In 1938, his first solo exhibition in the
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in Berlin was closed at the initiative of the
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. He was then expelled from the
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and had no more opportunities to exhibit until 1945. In 1937 he met
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in Paris; the following year, he travelled to
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and once again to Italy. In 1939, Trökes moved to
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to emigrate from there to the
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(Indonesia). The outbreak of the
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prevented this, however. Returning to Germany in 1940, he studied with
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in Krefeld, but was and conscripted to the
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, until 1942 as a
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soldier in Berlin. He attended the art school of Max Dungert in his free time. He was friends with, among others,
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, who provided him with a fake official exemption from the Wehrmacht. In 1945, Trökes was a co-founder of the Berlin Galerie Gerd Rosen, the first private art gallery in Germany after the war, and remained artistic director until 1946. From 1946 to 1948, a series of cosmonaut-like images was created, including ''Die Mondkanone'' (The Moon Cannon), ''Terrain der Kosmologen'' (Terrain of the Cosmologists), ''Sphärische Kontraste'' (Spheric Contrasts) and ''Zwei Welten'' (Two Worlds). He was called to the ''Staatliche Hochschule für Architektur und Kunst in Weimar'' (College of Architecture and Art) (today Bauhaus Universität) together with the painter in 1947, but finished teaching after one semester due to excessive external influence. He participated in the exhibition ''L’Art Allemand Moderne'', ''Deutsche Kunst der Gegenwart'' (German art of the present) in
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. During the
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from 1948 to 1949, he stayed in Berlin, in Rodenbach near Neuwied on the Rhine, then again in Berlin. In 1949 he married Renata Severin. Trökes published an article in the magazine ''
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'', Paris (Dir.
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) on ''La peinture et le public en Allemagne. L’inflation d’expositions et le scandale qu’elles provoquent''. From 1950 to 1952 he won the ''Blevin-Davis competition'' in Munich, stayed in Paris and befriended with
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and
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. Trökes joined the ''Rixes group'' with
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, Jaroslaw Serpan,
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and Zañartu, among others. Participation in the weekly Jour fixe revolving around
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,
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and
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). Heinz and Renée Trökes moved to
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in 1952. Here, he created many island pictures, often of a topographical character. He won the Hallmark competition, New York City. In 1954 his son, Jan Manuel, was born. Also in 1955, he received the
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and teaching offers from art schools and academies in Berlin,
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, Zurich,
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and
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, which he, however, declined. In 1955, he participated in
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in Kassel. (He also participated in further documentas in 1956 ( II. documenta) and 1964 (
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). In 1962 he was called to the ''Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste'' /
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.
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was one of his students among others. From 1965, Trökes taught painting at the ''Hochschule für bildende Künste'', today
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. In the same year he also designed a Church window in
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near Stuttgart. In 1966, he experimented with
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on ''Helio-Klischographs'' in
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with the aim of manufacturing electrically controlled prints. The quiet images were succeeded by intensively coloured ones. Many of his topics seem rather being influenced by his travels around the world. Heinz Trökes died in
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on 22 April 1997.


Selected works

* ''Die Mondkanone'' (Moon Cannon) (Berlin,
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– Museum for Modern Art, Photography and Architecture), 1946; oil on canvas * ''Sphärische Kontraste'' (Spheric Contrasts), 1948; oil on canvas,
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, Berlin * ''Am Mars'' (On Mars), 1948; oil on canvas, Neues Museum,
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* ''In der Luft und im Wasser'' (In the Air and in the Water), 1950; oil on canvas, The
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/Harvard Art Museums,
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, USA * ''Zwischen Wolken und Kristallen'' (Between Clouds and Crystals), 1951; oil on canvas.
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,
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, USA * ''Echo'', 1954; oil on canvas,
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, Duisburg * ''Für Artisten'' (For Artists), 1954; oil on canvas,
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Hannover * ''Wunschbild für Geologen'' (Ideal for Geologists) 1956; oil on canvas,
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, Berlin * Glass mosaic in the Katharinenschule, Hamburg-Hafencity. Production:
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. Originally for the XI Triennale, Milan. Acquired in 1958/59 by the Hamburg Senate and restored and realised in 2009/10 by the Münchner Hofmanufaktur. Former location: ''Volksschule an der Katharinenkirche'' (primary school at St. Catherine’s Church). * ''Lettern einer Schrift'' (Letters of a Document); etching on laid paper, 1960.
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, New York, USA * ''Augenreise'' (Eye Journey), 1968; Rembrandt Verlag, Berlin –
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, Washington


Selected exhibitions

* 1949 Solo exhibition in the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Museum, Krefeld. Participation in the ''Kunst in Deutschland 1930–1949'' (Art in Germany 1930–1949) exhibition, Zurich * 1953 Solo exhibitions in the
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,
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, and in the Städtisches Museum (Municipal museum),
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, participation in the 2nd São Paulo Art Biennial * 1954 Exhibition participation: ''duitse kunst na 1945'' (German Art after 1945),
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,
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* 1955 Participation in
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I, Kassel * 1959 Participation in documenta II, Kassel * 1964 Participation in
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, Kassel * 1966 Solo exhibition in the Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro * 1972 Participation in Continental Painting and Sculpture, 1942–72 in the
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* 1979 Solo exhibitions in the
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(Academy of arts), Berlin, and in the
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, Duisburg * 1983 Solo exhibition in the
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Berlin (sketchbooks presented by Trökes to the Nationalgalerie on the occasion of his 70th birthday) * 1985 Exhibition participation in the Nationalgalerie in Berlin: Kunst in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1945–1985 (Art in the Federal Republic of Germany 1945–1985) * 1995 Solo exhibition in the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett (Museum of Prints and Drawings) (gift of the sketchbooks 1984–1994) * 2003 Werke und Dokumente (Works and documents) –
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. A catalogue with 122 pages and numerous colors and black-and-white illustrations appeared for the exhibition. * 2003 Über dem Realen, Werke und Dokumente aus fünfzig Jahren (Above the real, works and documents from fifty years – major monographic show); Neues Museum Weimar * 2009 Participation: Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures;
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s – LACAMA; Kunst und Kalter Krieg; Deutsche Positionen 1945– 1989(Art and Cold War; German positions 1945–1989), Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg. Then:
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, Berlin * 2013 ELDORADO. Zum 100. Geburtstag von Heinz Trökes (On the occasion of the 100th birthday of Heinz Trökes),
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, Duisburg * 2018 Participation: INVENTUR – ART IN GERMANY 1943–1955,
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, Cambridge, MA, USA


Legacy

The written legacy, including the journals, was endowed to the ''Deutsches Kunstarchiv'' (German art archive) in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum. The sketchbooks were donated to the
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(Berlin State Museums), the Kupferstichkabinett Berlin (Museum of Prints and Drawings).


Further reading

* Marion Bornscheuer: ''Trökes, Heinz'' in: ''Neue Deutsche Biographie'' (New German Biography) 26 (2017), S. 429–431 (Online-Version) *
Will Grohmann Will Grohmann (born 4 December 1887 in Bautzen; died 6 May 1968 in Berlin) was a German art critic and art historian specialized in German Expressionism and abstract art. He was known as the "godfather of modernism". Life and work From 1908 to ...
: ''Heinz Trökes'', art series of the Safari-Verlag Berlin, Berlin 1959 * Lothar Romain: ''Heinz Trökes. Die Lichtaugen zwischen Schlaf und Traum''
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in: Künstler. Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwart Artists. Critical encyclopaedia of the present. Munich 1993 * Irmtraud von Andrian-Werburg: ''Heinz Trökes. Werke und Dokumente'', (exhibition Catalogue), Germanisches National Museum, Nuremberg 2003; Neues Museum, Weimar; Haus am Waldsee, Berlin * Siebenbrodt, Michael/Trökes, Manuel and others: Heinz Trökes. Die frühen Jahre (the early years). Weimar 2013 * See more literature under
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Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek


Catalogues raisonnés

* Markus Krause: Heinz Trökes. Werkverzeichnis (Catalogue raisonné of the oil-paintings). Prestel Verlag, Munich/Berlin/London/New York 2003, . * Online catalogue raisonné on the official website o
Trökes-Archive


External links


Literature by and about Heinz Trökes in the catalogue of the German National Library

Official website of Heinz Trökes
(english)
Heinz Trökes on Oxford Art Online

by and about Heinz Trökes at the documenta archives library catalogue

Heinz Trökes on European Art Net

Heinz Trökes at the Berlinische Galerie

City in Ruins at Berlinische Gallery


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Heinz Trökes at Mutual Art

Heinz Trökes on IFAR
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Trokes, Heinz German male painters German abstract painters German printmakers 20th-century German painters Academic staff of the Berlin University of the Arts 1913 births 1997 deaths