Monika Kropshofer

Monika Kropshofer (* in Neuwied, 14th November 1952 ); is a German painter and photographer. Since the middle of the year 2000 Kropshofer has gained renown through her large-format painted landscape and architecture photographs which were created as a result of her many work journeys and stays in Europe, Africa und Asia.

Life and work

From 1972 to 1977, Monika Kropshofer studied first Law at the Johannes Gutenberg-University in Mainz. After her two years as an articled clerk in Mainz, she worked as a lawyer from 1980, first in Mainz, then in Coblence, and took her doctorate in 1982. In 1983, Kropshofer opened her own Law office and was active as a court lawyer at the Coblence High Court of Justice. She terminated this activity in 1990 to study the History of art at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. At the same time, she worked as a freelance artist, finishing her studies in 1995.[1]

Kropshofer began her autodidactic artistic training by experimenting with various picture material and bases. From the beginning, she turned her main attention to the combination of various media, especially photography and painting. Kropshofer projects landscape and architecture photographs[2] onto the most varied kinds of bases (glass, sheets of plastic, photographic paper, window blinds, plastic foils) and subsequently works on them with paint.[3][4][5] Here, Kropshofer does without any additional digital picture processing.[6][7] The photographs are taken during the artist's regular working trips and stays in Europe, Africa and South-East Asia.[8] Since the mid-2000s, the works have become larger in format and more far-reaching and from now on, extensive installations[9] and objects were also created.

Kropshofer's artistic discussion always turns around the formal dialogue between the object depicted and the media used.[10] Her method for doing this is the construction and deconstruction of spatiality, depending on each picture basis and the revelation of the appropriateness of the structures in landscape and architecture with the help of painting. Thus her works are in the tradition of photography's very own discourse, the question of reproduction and reality, fiction and real life.[11][12][13][14][15]

The artist lives and works in Boppard.[16]

Works in Public Collections

  • Ludwig Museum Coblence: Untitled (Island), 2010, 70 x 100 cm, mixed technique on digital print on plastic plate
  • City of Grimmen: Untitled (Grimmen), 2007, 2 works, each 30 x 45 cm, mixed technique on photo paper
  • Goethe-Institut Taiwan: Untitled (Vietnam), 2007, 50 x 75 cm, mixed technique on photo paper
  • City of Boppard: Boppard, Kurfürstliche Burg, 2015, 100 x 150 cm, mixed technique on digital print on plastic plate
  • Regional Authority Rheinland, Langenfeld: Gedenkstein, Friedhof Hadamar, 2016, 80 x 120 cm, mixed technique on digital print on plastic plate

Exhibitions (Selection)


Literature

  • Beyer, Savoy, Tegethoff: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, Volume 82, Berlin 2014.
  • Changing Dream Streams, catalogue of the exhibition of the same title by the two artists Monika Kropshofer and Elisabeth Bergner, Boppard, 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-038410-3.
  • Interventionen: catalogue of the exhibition of the same title at the State Representation of the Rhineland-Palatinate, Berlin, 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-033741-3.
  • Back to basics: catalogue of the exhibition of the same title at the Museum Boppard, Boppard, 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-050867-7.

Single References

  1. ↑ Heinz Höfchen, Kropshofer, Monika. In: Beyer, Savoy, Tegethoff: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, Volume 82, Berlin 2014. p. 71.
  2. ↑ Announcement of the Exhibition at Galerie Treiber
  3. ↑ Heinz Höfchen: Pas de deux: Art and Nature. Elisabeth Bergner and Monika Kropshofer in Dialogue. In: Changing Dream Streams, Catalogue of the Exhibition of the same Title in Bingen 2012 und Krems 2013, p. 21.
  4. ↑ Discussion of Exhibition on the page of the State Parliament of the Rhineland-Palatinate
  5. ↑ Faszinierende Kunst - Dr. Monika Kropshofer in Ahlbeck. In: Magazin Usedom Wollin exklusiv, Winter 2006, Access on January 20th 2015.
  6. ↑ Raumwelten entdecken. In: Staatszeitung, No.5 of February 25th 2013, access on January 20th 2015.
  7. ↑ Die Welt an sich. Monika Kropshofer im Herrenhof Mußbach, Stadtanzeiger of January 29th 2015
  8. ↑ Le passe-muraille. Monika Kropshofer expose des techniques mixtes à l'Espace Paragon. In: Luxemburger Wort of February 21st 2010, access on January 20th, 2015.
  9. ↑ Kropshofer inszeniert den Keller. Künstlerin zeigt eine Installation im Gewölbe des Mittelrhein-Museums.(„Kropshofer sets the scene in the cellar. Artist shows Installation in the Vaults of the Central Rhine Museum“) In: Rhein-Zeitung of April 19th 2010, access on January 20th 2015.
  10. ↑ Blind Date. Skulptur trifft Foto. In: Allgemeine Zeitung of 26 February 26, 2013, access on 20 January 2015.
  11. ↑ Heinz Höfchen: The Dialectics of Reflection. On the Work of Monika Kropshofer, at: http://www.monika-kropshofer.de/de/, access on January 11th 2015
  12. ↑ Heinz Höfchen: Interventions. On Monika Kropshofer's new works, Boppard 2011, p. 6.
  13. ↑ Magazin der Media City Leipzig, Issue April 2012, p. 13 Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine.
  14. ↑ Announcement of the Exhibition „Durchblick“ in Jena on January 30th 2014
  15. ↑ Holger Pöschl: Präzision und Entgrenzung. Den verborgenen Strukturen auf der Spur: Der Mußbacher Herrenhof präsentiert die subtilen Übermalungen der Bopparder Künstlerin Monika Kropshofer, in: Rheinpfalz of January 29th 2015
  16. ↑ http://www.herrenhof-mussbach.de/index.php/events/icalrepeat.detail/2015/02/01/781/18/dr-monika-kropshofer-die-welt-an-sich-fotografie-und-malerei, access on January 11th 2015
  17. ↑ Welterbe im Dialog. (“World Heritage in Dialogue“) In: Niederösterreichische Nachrichten of April 2nd, 2013, access on January 20th 2015.
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