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Gerard KochBronze Modern Sculpture, The Family, Dancing, French German Artist Gerard Kochc.1960's
c.1960's
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Untitled (Man, Woman and Child Dancing)
bronze on marble plinth base.
signed and numbered
Gerard Koch was a French Post War & Contemporary sculptor who was born in 1926.
Gérard Koch, born on March 10, 1926 in Kaiserslautern in Germany and died on March 31 , 2014 in Paris, is an artist of French nationality.
He did his apprenticeship at La Grande Chaumière in Paris, with Ossip Zadkine, Henri Laurens and Emmanuel Auricoste as teachers. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. (he also went by the names Gérard Günth and Manfred Koch)
He made his first personal exhibition in the gallery La Spirale in Paris in 1956 . From 1956 to 1983, he exhibited regularly at the May Fair. In 1965, he is a laureate of the Ford Foundation in Berlin. He then stays in the United States where he teaches in Interlochen, Michigan.
In 1968, he made a statue of Pierre de Coubertin for the Grenoble Olympics. He then turns to non-figuration.
In 1976, he exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in the city of Paris. Then in 1979 at the Pompidou Center.
In 1989, he directed La Fugue du Bugey. he is known for his kinetic sculptures and for his families, acrobats and lovers that bear an affinity to the work of American artist Chaim Gross.
Recent personal exhibitions
1994: Françoise Moulin Gallery, Lyon
Art / Space gallery, Thonon
Bellerive Museum, Zurich , Switzerland
1995: Claude Dorval Gallery, Paris
"Kulturforum", Villa Oppenheim, Berlin, Germany
1996: BNP Champs-Élysées
Galerie Art Espace, Thonon
1997: "20 years of reflection": sculptures and drawings 1977 - 1997,
Bruno Delarue Gallery, Paris
1998: Center Carpeaux, "Guest of honor", Paris
1999: Bruno Delarue Gallery, Paris
Zweibrücken, The White Barracks, Germany
2000: The Area Reserve "White Sequences"
2001: Bruno Delarue Gallery, Paris
2009: Mobile Art Space, 'FLUIDITES @ SETE', Sète
Collective Exhibitions
1994 Great and Young Fair, Paris
May Fair, Paris
2 painters, 2 sculptors: Cultural Center, Levallois 1995
May Fair, Paris
Fine Arts Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1996
30 years of sculpture with Denis Chevalier, Convent of the Cordeliers, Paris
May Salon Art in the Chapels, Morbihan 1997
May Fair, Paris and Gembloux, Belgium 1998
- Creator:Gerard Koch (1926 - 2014)
- Creation Year:c.1960's
- Dimensions:Height: 10.75 in (27.31 cm)Width: 6 in (15.24 cm)Depth: 4.5 in (11.43 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Surfside, FL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU38214443772
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