The painter, photographer, and graphic artist Jürgen Frisch was born in Münchberg, Franconia, in 1948. He began his artistic career in 1974 at the Berlin University of the Arts, where he studied painting and graphic design until 1980 and was appointed a master student of Professor Martin Engelman.
In 1980, Frisch was one of the co-founders of the GARAGE gallery in Berlin. Jürgen Frisch, who lived and worked in Berlin since the early 1970s, has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Germany, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, and in the USA at the Los Angeles Art Fair. Some of his works are in public collections, including the Berlinische Galerie, the Artothek (Berlin), the Museum Folkwang (Essen), and the Malmö-Haus Lans Landsting in Malmö, Sweden.
Jürgen Frisch passed away on November 9, 2021, in Berlin.
About Jürgen Frisch
"(...) Of all the GARAGE artists, Jürgen Frisch is arguably the most painterly expressive, the freest in his use of color and form. He, too, incorporates nature, but also figurative and tectonic elements – yet so elaborately processed and transposed that they can only be guessed at. Color and form, straight and curved, sharp and soft, geometric and organic, seem detached from specific associations. They want to be perceived as what they are, what one sees, what one feels. (...)"
Michael Nungesser, September 2009
"The reality of painting is the canvas" – Jürgen Frisch confirms this phrase by Alberto Giacometti in picture after picture. His painting appears immediate and vital, yet not impulsively violent. Frisch's element is color; the palette is intense – earthy tones; the colors are used opaquely, deliberately and deliberately in short, broad strokes. The composition of the picture remains comprehensible to the viewer; There are hardly any corrective overpaintings"
Hermann Wiesler