Fritz Genkinger - Artist Info

About Fritz Genkinger

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    Fritz Genkinger (b.1934)

    Born in 1934 in Tübingen, he grew up in Nürtingen, where he worked as a tool mechanic. In 1957, he entered the National Academy of Visual Arts in Karlruhe, studying under HAP Grieshaber and Herbert Kitzel.

    He settled as a freelance painter in Karlsruhe and moved to Stuttgart in 1968. In 1970, he began working as a guest lecturer at the National Academy of Visual Arts in Stuttgart. In 1972, Genkinger received a stipend from the Cité Internationale des Arts which enabled him to spend a year in Paris.

    Much of his commissioned and independent work thematically deals with sports, especially soccer.

    Genkinger resettled in Münsingen-Böttingen in 1995. At the occasion o...

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