Hartmut von Altrock - A LUCKY CANDIDATE

Color screenprint in large format, 64 x 49 cm (70 x 60 cm the sheet) on vellum.
Monogrammed and signed in pencil in the print.
Titled in pencil in lower middle, difficult to read.
Copy 46 of 100.
Very good condition .

Hartmut von Altrock, 1931 in Breslau - 2014 in Olloix, Auvergne, France was a German painter and graphic artist.
Hartmut von Altrock was born in 1931 as the eldest of four children of Reichsbahnrat Theodor von Altrock and his wife Ilse, née Meyer-Lüerssen. In 1945 he initially completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter, obtained his Abitur in 1948 and began studying architecture at the Technical University of Berlin, graduating in 1958 with a degree in engineering. Architect graduated.

He autodidactically acquired the artistic techniques of life drawing, oil painting and various printing techniques (engraving, aquatint and serigraphy). In the following years he initially worked as an architect before finally working full-time as a visual artist. Hartmut von Altrock lived and worked in Berlin until he moved to Olloix with his wife Katia S. Golo and his son Klemens in 1976, where he took on French citizenship in 2006.
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In Altrock's artistic work, the print cycles “We” (aquatint 1965–1969), “Small-figured facts” (aquatint) and “A Candidate for Happiness” (serigraph 1970–1978), and “Certain Habits” (engraving 1973) stand out on the one hand. Recurring themes and motifs, especially in the cycles “We” and “A Lucky Candidate,” are Berlin interiors, the Berlin cityscape, and the lives of the “smaller” and “better” people. In the cycle “Kleinfigurige Matters” Altrock deals with a court case that lasted several years in which there was a dispute about artistic freedom and personal rights.

In addition to his graphic works, he creates a large number of large-format oil paintings, which primarily depict motifs from the cityscape, but also portraits and interiors during his years in Berlin. In France, Altrock turns to nature motifs, large landscape and flower paintings.

Over the decades of his artistic activity, Altrock has had a large number of solo exhibitions, nationally and internationally, including in the Wandelhalle Bad Zwischenahn], the Graphic Collection of the Kunsthalle Kiel, in the Gurlitt Gallery in Munich, Hamburg, in the Rudolf Springer Gallery in Berlin, Cologne, Landesmuseum Bonn, in the Salon der Hundert in Tübingen as well as in Clermont-Ferrand and in the Goethe House and the Bennett Galleries in New York.[9] His last exhibition entitled “Que diriez-vous d'un petit thé?” (What did you think of a little tea?) took place in 2010 as part of the Franco-Russian Year at the Nonconformist Museum at Pushkinskaya 10 Art Center in St. Petersburg. The Saint Petersburg Artists' Union made him a life member.

A catalog raisonné in four volumes can be viewed in the Center Pompidou Paris and in the Kupferstichkabinett Berlin.
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