Erwin Gross

Selected Works

Erwin Gross, untitled, 2022, acrylic, pigment on cotton, 142 x 210 cm

Erwin Gross, untitled, 2022, acrylic, pigment on cotton, 128 x 159 cm

Erwin Gross, untitled, 2022, acrylic, pigment on cotton, 205 x 140 cm

Erwin Gross, untitled, 2021, acrylic, pigment on canvas, 221 x 150 cm

Erwin Gross, untitled, 2021, acrylic, pigment on canvas, 161 x 231 cm

Erwin Gross, untitled, 2018, acrylic, pigment on canvas, 220 x 150 cm

Erwin Gross, untitled, 2018, acrylic, pigment on canvas, 300 x 220 cm

Erwin Gross, Jatropha 2, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 220 x 150 cm

Erwin Gross, Jatropha 4, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 220 x 150 cm

Erwin Gross, Jatropha 3, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 220 x 150 cm

Erwin Gross, untitled, 2016, acrylic on cotton, 214 x 164 cm

Erwin Gross, untitled, 2016, acrylic, pigment on cotton, 218 x 168 cm

Erwin Gross, untitled, 2016, acrylic, pigment on cotton, 220 x 171 cm

Erwin Gross, untitled, 2016, acrylic, pigment on cotton, 224 x 171 cm

Erwin Gross, untitled, 2015, acrylic, pigment on cotton, 254 x 140 cm

Erwin Gross, Hohlweg, 2013, acrylic, pigment on cotton, 212 x 199 cm

Erwin Gross, Fockea, 2012, acrylic, pigment on cotton, 215 x 143 cm

Erwin Gross, Fockea, 2012, acrylic, pigment on cotton, 216 x 140 cm

Erwin Gross, G.W., 2012, acrylic, pigment on cotton, 152 x 164 cm

Erwin Gross, G.W., 2012, acrylic, pigment on cotton, 200 x 172 cm

Erwin Gross, 2 Gat, 2011, acrylic, pigment on cotton, 172 x 218 cm

Exhibitions

JAMES CHOICE, Selected by Walpurga Speckbacher, Exhibition view, 2023

JAMES CHOICE | Selected by Walpurga Speckbacher

05.07.2023 - 01.09.2023

Erwin Gross, Torino, Exhibition view, 2022

Erwin Gross, Torino

05.05.2022 - 08.07.2022

Die Schönheit von Combray

Madeleine Boschan, André Butzer, Erwin Gross, Tobias Hantmann, Thilo Heinzmann, Anna Kolodziejska, Elke Silvia Krystufek, René Luckhardt, Ulrich Wulff, Josef Zekoff

11.01.2022 - 28.01.2022

Ross Bleckner, Erwin Gross - Dialog der Bilder, eine Idee von Rafael Jablonka

Ross Bleckner, Erwin Gross

Dialog der Bilder, eine Idee von Rafael Jablonka

10.07.2020 - 18.09.2020

Ausstellungsplakate 2004 - 2020

09.06.2020 - 03.07.2020

Intermezzo I

31.03.2020 - 24.04.2020

Summer Group Show with artstis of the gallery

Summer Group Show with artists of the gallery

09.08.2019 - 01.10.2019

Erwin Gross, Jatropha, Exhibition view, 2019

Erwin Gross

Jatropha

11.01.2019 - 23.02.2019

Ross Bleckner, Miriam Cahn, Erwin Gross, Tobias Hantmann, Anna Kolodziejska

FlOWERS

10.11.2018 - 21.12.2018

Terra fecunda est, Exhibition view, 2018

Josefin Arnell, Erwin Gross, René Luckhardt

Terra fecunda est

19.01.2018 - 03.03.2018

Erwin Gross, Fockea, Exhibition view, 2017

Erwin Gross

Fockea

09.03.2017 - 22.04.2017

MADELEINE BOSCHAN, COLLABORATION_PATRYCJA GERMAN / HOLGER ENDRES, ERWIN GROSS, TOBIAS HANTMANN, ANNA KOLODZIEJSKA, RENÉ LUCKHARDT

still still life

22.01.2016 - 05.03.2016

Erwin Gross

24.04.2015 - 30.05.2015

John M Armleder, Miriam Cahn, Helmut Dorner, Johannes Esper, Helen Feifel, Erwin Gross, Tobias Hantmann, Herbert Hinteregger, Anna Lea Hucht, Jan Kämmerling, René Luckhardt, Glenn Sorensen

ENDOSCOPIA, Part 1 and 2

09.05.2014 - 28.06.2014

Publications

18.12.2013 - 18.01.2014

André Butzer Erwin Gross Thilo Heinzmann Andy Hope 1930 Per Kirkeby Eugène Leroy René Luckhardt

Il faut être peintre..,

12.04.2013 - 18.05.2013

Erwin Gross

16.01.2013 - 23.02.2013

Erwin Gross

Malerei

10.06.2011 - 23.07.2011

Erwin Gross

Von Abend zu Abend

28.05.2010 - 03.07.2010

Biography

Erwin Gross

born 1953 in Langenbrücken / Baden, Germany
lives and works in Karlsruhe

1975 - 1980

studies in painting at the Staatlichel Akademie der Bildenden Künste with Peter Ackermann

1980 - 1982

studies at "de Ateliers" in Haarlem, Netherlands

1981

scholarship from Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)

1990 - 2021

porfessor of painting ant the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe

Solo Exhibitions

2024

Hedera, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck

2022

Torino, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck

2020

Erwin Gross (with Ross Bleckner), Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck and private show room, Reith / Seefeld

2019

Jatropha, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck

2018

Erwin Gross, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Karlsruhe

2017

Fockea, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck

2015

Malerei / Skulptur (with Johannes Esper), Weltecho Galerie, Chemnitz

Erwin Gross, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck

2013

Landschaften, Museum Zitadelle Jülich

Erwin Gross, Einraumhaus Mannheim

Erwing Gross, Museum der Rheinromantik, Königswinter

Erwin Gross, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck

2011

Malerei, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck

Erwin Gross, Kunstverein Reutlingen

2010

Neue Malerei, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck

2008

Malerei 1982 - 2007, Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe

Erwin Gross bei Bogner, Essllingen am Neckar

2005

Eremitage, Galerie Westend, Munich

2004

Feuerwerk und Schiffsunglück, Forum für Kunst, Heidelberg

2001

Erwin Gross, Galerie Baumgarten, Freiburg im Breisgau

2000

Ruisdael-Paraphrasen, Kuntverein Das Damianstor, Bruchsal

1999

Erwin Gross, Raum für Bilder, Berlin

1997

Erwin Gross, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden

1996

Neue Bilder, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe, Lichthof

1992

Erwin Gross, Galerie Karlheinz Meyer, Karlsruhe

1990

Kunstverein Augsburg (with Karl Schleinkofer)

1988

Erwin Gross, Galerie Neuendorf, Frankfurt am Main

1984

Erwin Gross, Waddington Galleries, London

Group Exhibitions

2023

James Choice, selected by Walpurga Speckbacher, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck

2022

Die Schönheit von Combray, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck

2021

La renaissance de flâner, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck

2020

Ausstellungsplakate 2004 - 2020, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck

Intermezzo II, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck

2018

Flowers, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck

Terra fecunda est, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck

2017

Adele, Galerie Zink, Waldkirchen

The Gift Collection 2017, Office Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck

2016

still still life, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck

The Gift Collection 2016, Office Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck

2015

Kunstakademie Karlsruhe, Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe

Der beosndere Blick - Künstler als Sammler, Kunstverein Wilhelmshöhe, Ettlingen

2014

Von Ackermann bis Zabotin, ZKM Karlsruhe

Endoscopia, Part 1 and 2, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck

Delta-Beben, Regionale 2014, Wilhelm Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen

2013

"Geboren 1953 - 60 Jahre Kunstverein Reutlingen", Kunstverein Reutlingen

"Il faut être peintre...", Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck

2012

Balck Oriental, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck

2011

Aller Zauber liegt im Bild, Kunstmuseum Würth, Künzelsau

2010

25 + 25, 25 Künstler aus 25 Jahren, Kunstverien Wilhelmshöhe, Ettlingen

2004

150 Jahre Kunstakademie Karlsruhe, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe

2002

Schwarzwaldhochstraße - aktuelle Kunst in und aus Baden-Württemberg

2000

Transarcadia revisited, Skulpturhalle Basel

Erwin Gross, Stiftung Wörlen, Passau

1999

Landschaften eines Jahrhunderts, Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Museum Moderner Kunst, Frankfurt am Main

1988

La collection Agnés et Frits Becht, Musée d'Art Moderne, Villeneuve d'Ascq

1985

Ateliers 63, 1980 - 1985, Museum Fodor, Amsterdam

1984

Sammlung Becht / Collectie Angés en Frits Becht, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

1982

documenta 7, Kassel

Texts

Albrecht Altdorfer, main representative of the circle of painters in the Danube region at the turn of the 16th century referred to as Danube School, created one of the first pure landscape paintings detached from religious subjects or portraits with his “Landscape at Sunset” (1520). The sense of nature, applied in a pigment-like flow, is represented in expressive fields of color, seemingly corresponding with one another poetically. The landscape, charged with significance, conveys the mood with certain lighting situations, real as well as supernatural light – fantastic, flamboyant worlds open up, partly fading again into abstraction in their compaction. Through a variety of art historical references, such as the one to the landscape painting of the Danube School and Romanticism, Erwin Gross develops his very own contemporary painting style reminiscent of a sculptural treatment of paint. Frequently color pigments, mixed with acrylic and water, are actually rubbed into the canvas, only to be partly removed again later, or colored liquids are applied in a very thin coat so the painting appears reduced and watercolor-like, often only hinting at discernible structures. In his earlier works titled “Abschiedsbild / Farewell Picture”, 1981 and “Serpentina”, 1982, which were presented at Documenta 07 in Kassel in 1982, architectural elements seem to be incorporated in the landscape-like abstractions, embedded in subtly shading watercolor-like fields of color. With the more recent groups of works entitled “Fockea” and “Jatropha”, which are reminiscent of plants, “things” become a visually challenging experience posing puzzles to the viewer – through an apparently deliberate concealment by the artist we try to apprehend the essence, led astray between fields of hidden luminosity. Often just insinuated, Erwin Gross’ paintings seem to point to mysterious worlds – as if wafts of mist arose and left the world behind them in soothing pastels. The color pigments spread, at times statically, at times floating above the canvas;