Erwin Pfrang, German Neo Expressionist Color Pencil Drawing Erwin Pfrang, 1987

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Erwin Pfrang, German (b. 1951) Graphite, Colored Pencil on paper Framed 20.5/8 X 16.5/8 sheet 6 X 7.75 Erwin Pfrang … Read more Erwin Pfrang, German (b. 1951) Graphite, Colored Pencil on paper Framed 20.5/8 X 16.5/8 sheet 6 X 7.75 Erwin Pfrang (born 1951, in Munich) is a German painter and printmaker. Pfrang studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1974–79. Later he spent many years as an independent artist in Montepulciano, Val d’Orcia and Catania, Italy, interrupted by stays in Munich and Augsburg. He presently lives and works in Berlin. Erwin Pfrang is the grandson of the Munich folk comedian Konstantin Pfrang. Carla Schulz-Hoffmann makes an attempt at characterising the painter: “An artist such as Erwin Pfrang inhabits an alternative world, a tiny microcosm of subjectivity, and lives that life uncompromisingly, with all the limitations and hardships that it entails. Among twentieth-century artists a comparable stance can be encountered perhaps in Jean Fautrier, but certainly in Otto Wols. His oeuvre relates in its figuration to Bosch or James Ensor and his oil painting to Lucian Freud in its painterly quality. Erwin Pfrang is represented by gallerists Fred Jahn, Munich (Exhibition: Don’t Forget Your Mask: Don’t (Part I: Don’t Forget Your Mask), Forget (Part II: Don’t Forget Your Mask), Your Mask (Part III: Don’t Forget Your Mask)Artists: Imi Knoebel, Barry Le Va, Karel Appel, Alexi Tsioris, William N. Copley, Isa Genzken, Konrad Klapheck, Gerhard Richter, Erwin Pfrang, Paula Rego,Hedwig Eberle, Hermann Nitsch, Stefan Vogel). David Nolan, New York. (A prominent gallery who shows Richard Artschwager, George Grosz, Jim Nutt, Georg Baselitz, Robert Crumb and other German Neo Expressionist artists.) Pfrang’s lifelong passion for literature becomes particularly evident in his involvement with the works of the Irish writer James Joyce. The result being three cycles of signed drawings about Dubliners and Ulysses. The New York Times called his drawings for the Circe episode of the novel: "a brilliant solo debut." Other drawings are dedicated to the tale Tributsch by the German Expressionist writer Albert Ehrenstein and Gerald Barry's opera The Intelligence Park, libretto by Vincent Deane. This work has an Outsider art, Art Brut quality to it. Museums Albertina, Vienna Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts Fogg Art Museum, Harvard Morgan Library & Museum, New York Museum Of Modern Art, New York MoMA (there are similar works online on their website) Neue Pinakothek, Munich Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, Munich Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven Important Exhibitions 1984 Zeichnungen, Fred Jahn Munich 1991 Circe Drawings, David Nolan, New York 1995 Dubliners and Related Works, David Nolan, New York 1998 Odysseus und kein Ende, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich 1999 Bilder, Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, Munich 2000 Paintings and Drawings, The Norwood Gallery, Austin, Texas 2004 Circe Drawings, Bank of Ireland Arts Centre, Dublin 2004 Bilder, Zeichnungen und Graphik, Völcker & Freunde Galerie, Berlin 2006 Paintings, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles 2007 Hades, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich 2007 Mostra di Erwin Pfrang, Università di Catania 2012 New Pictures, Fred Jahn, Munich 2015 New Pictures, Matthias Jahn, Munich 2016 Axel Pairon Gallery, Knokke 2018 Hope & Hazard, Curated by Eric Fischl 2019 Buchheim Museum, Bernried 2021-22 Katholische Akademie in Bayern, Munich His work has been reviewed multiple times in the New York times including: Smith, Roberta, review of Alberto Giacometti: Prints & Erwin Pfrang, Frank Günzel, Rudi Tröger: Drawings, David Nolan Gallery, New York, The New York Times, 6. Januar 1989 Bomb Magazine: Erwin Pfrang by Carroll Dunham See less