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Oskar Koller Fills the Zeughaus with Light and Color
Wednesday 08. July 2009 - manroland supports the artists largest recent exhibition
The theme is enticing and encourages a visit. “Light and Color” is the name of the exhibition featuring artist Oskar Kollers powerfully colorful and vivid favorite motifs inspired by his journeys around the globe. manroland is inviting all watercolor, and acrylic painting enthusiasts to have a look at the artists work from July 10 to September 6, 2009 at the Toskanische Säulenhalle (Tuscan column hall) of the Zeughaus in Augsburg, Germany.
manroland and Koller share a passion for lithography. Providing an insight into Kollers work of the past 30 years, the exhibit features 100 pieces, making it the largest Koller exhibition in many years. The paintings, at various levels of abstraction, focus on architecture, nature, and human beings. Kollers work has a unique expressive power. The exhibit presents previously rarely shown acrylic paintings from Kollers last productive phase. In addition to manroland, the exhibition is sponsored by the city of Augsburg, the Regio Augsburg Tourismus, the Oskar Koller Foundation, the Kunstbetrieb Oskar Koller GmbH, as well as the Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper and Palette art school. The exhibition is open from Tuesday to Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thursday to 8 p.m.
Making art accessible
Oskar Koller was born 1925 in Erlangen, Germany. Following professional commercial training, he attended the former Berufsoberschule Nürnberg, todays Georg-Simon-Ohm-University of Applied Sciences in Nuremberg (faculty of Design), where he studied color theory and drawing as of 1947. Until 1959, Koller attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg, to which he returned from 1985 to 1986 as a visiting professor. He achieved international fame through numerous individual exhibits at home and abroad. From 1959 he worked as an independent artist. He died in Fürth, Germany, in the year 2004.
The interaction with human beings and nature was Oskar Kollers central theme throughout his life. His watercolor paintings, in particular, made him famous far beyond his native country. In this method, he was able to intensively show his great strength – the seemingly effortless handling of color. He applied color sensitively and sparingly, always aiming to give the observers imagination free rein. This is also the key to his great popularity, because the art of Oskar Koller is accessible and comprehensible to us all.