BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
- Born in 1959
- Lives and works in the Swiss Jura since 1996. Regular stays in Berlin and Paris.
- Abstract and figurative painting in parallel. Fascination with light and materials. Landscapes, compositions.
- Since 2003, intense involvement with stained glass. The major project become the "Saignelégier Steles".
- Concentration on the theme of humanity, on individuals and crowds , as a World Theater. Painting-sculptures and sculpture-paintings are created.
- From 2010 to 2014: Regular exhibitions at the ACHTZIG Gallery for Contemporary Art, Berlin
- From 2014: a slow process of creation is taking place while revisiting themes in a more long-term fashion (such as life lines, apocalypse).
- From 2015: Froehlich is more and more in a slow creative process based on old Master drawings of the Renaissance and Baroque period, tranforming them in a contemporary interpretation and exaltation of this exciting time of art history Very few artists are inspired by old Masters and able at the same time to reinterprete this masterpieces in a new and highy original way.
PRESS-CUTTINGS
- Monographie: Florian Froehlich : “World Theatre - Theatre World”. Editions Le renard par la queue, CH-1005 Lausanne . No ISBN 978-2-940533-00-8. Design : Chloé Donzé. Photos/pictures : Jacques Bélat. Textes : José Ribeaud, Ferenc Rakoczy, Jacques Minala. Citations/quotations/Zitate : William Shakespeare and others.
- Glasmalerei für das 21. Jahrhundert: Malen mit Glas und Licht. Glasmalerei Peters, Paderborn. ISBN No 978-89710-452-5
- Dictionnaire biographique de l’art Suisse / Biographische Lexikon der Schweizer Kunst , 1998, Edition Neue Zürcher Zeitung (No ISBN: 3-85823-673-X)
- Wikipedia (français/deutsch/English) : Swiss contemporary artist
- Sélection d'articles, d'émissions radio et de TV: voir sous biographie sur ce site
- Membre des artistes-verriers Suisses (Verarte)
- Membre de la Société des peintres et sculpteurs jurassiens (SPSJ)
- Magie de la Renaissance, catalogue pour l’exposition à la Fondation Bloch, 2018. Texte d’introduction par Pierre Hügli, Editeur de pharts . Edition. ISBN No 978-2-8399-2487-0
- Florian Froehlich, Magie de la Renaissance: un retour aux Sources de la Beauté. Catalogue to the solo show at the Fondation Robert et Anne Bloch, Delémont, Switzerland
ISBN No 978-2-8399-2487-0 FARB Foundation
- Vitraux contemporains de l’arc jurassien. Régine Bonnefoit et al, Edition Société d’histoire de l’art en Suisse SHAS. ISBN 978-3-03797-358-5
Particular works
- 2004 Painting “Le Christ blanc (White Christ)” for the Carmel de la Paix, Mazille, Cluny, France
- 2004 Art calendar for Takeda Switzerland
- 2004 Stained-glass sculpture “L’envol”
- 2005 Stained-glass sculpture “Arbre de vie” and "Oeil du monde"
- 2005 “Regards” : 15 stained-glass tiles for a large cement wall)
- 2006 Art calendar for Astra Zeneca, Switzerland (in collaboration with the artists Jacques Minala and Charles Aubert)
- 2006 Glasskulptur "Rêveries" (Träume) and photolithography (limited edition) for the 30th
- 2007 Logo, posters, painting « Reflets et échos sonores »
- 2008- 2009 Execution of an important art glass sculpture project (21 stèles) for the church at Saignelégier (JU), in collaboration with the stained glass master-craftsman Roland Béguin (see “News”)
- 2009 Execution of an important art glass sculpture project (21 stèles) for the church at Saignelégier (JU), in collaboration with the stained glass master-craftsman Roland Béguin (see “News”)
- 2008 Silkscreen representation „esprit et lumière“, support of the satinglass project at Saignelégier
- 2013 Selection to edit the official silk screen print to support the renovation of the main church St Marcel in Delémont, Switzerland (print by Voumard and Chauvy, Bière)
- 2013 Steles of Saignelégier. Additional project of a glass and steel sculpture and candle support around the existing statue of the virgin (in collaboration with R Béguin and J Scheuner)
- 2022 Fluxus vitae : Contemporary stain glass work : stained glass, steel, marble, onyx. Cemetery of Porrentruy
Florian Froehlich himself
