Frits Vogel ... artist
Frits Vogel ... artist
18 August 1931 - 12 June 2015
First of all there is "the painter" Frits Vogel, creator of illuminated canvases, paintings that cheer with their joyful colors ...
and then there is also "the sculptor" Frits Vogel, who transforms the stiff, unruly iron and transforms it into gracious transparent sculptures.
A great artist, insensitive to fashionable trends; a colorist with his own, very pronounced style.
A contemporary, but timeless artist ... an artist, who makes the sun shine in his canvases and knows how to dress the light in a party ...
N ° 931 oil on canvas 100x100 cm January 2008
... he constructs a pronounced form of architecture from a well-thought-out harmony.
... he shows an imaginary world that is balanced and serene.
Wall relief iron 200 cm
Playing with volumes, but also with the material, sometimes compact, sometimes openwork, sometimes in pointed relief, he creates light and harmonious compositions of a special and traditional beauty ...
N ° 500 Iron sculpture 150 cm
... the art of Frits Vogel is above all the blazing of an enormous original feeling between the figurative and the abstract, the natural and the intellectual, the creative and the chaotic. It is the wonderful moment in which everything vibrates, vibrates and resounds in a tumultuous burst of sensations ...
... as far as his sculptures of iron are concerned: it is without doubt with this masculine and powerful form of expression that he, with everything in him, proves his qualities as the creator of forms. Playing with volume, but also with the material, sometimes compact, then open-cut, sometimes in pointy relief, he creates light and harmonious compositions of a sacred, traditional beauty ...
N ° 957 oil on canvas 100x100 cm January 2009
... Frits Vogel's paintings are cheering with their joyful colors. If the subject disappears, it will never be abandoned, but rebuilt. The emotion bursts into light. What a joy! ...