Ralph Fleck

Ralph Fleck (born1951, Freiburg, Germany) lives and works in Freiburg and Soller. Formerly Professor of Painting at the Nuremberg Academy his work is represented in many public collections including the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlung Munich; Kunsthaus Zürich; Sprengel Museum Hannover; Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg. In 2015 a major retrospective of his work was held at the Museum Küppersmühle Duisburg.

As a student Ralph Fleck had a teacher who insisted that nothing was unworthy of being painted. It is a credo he has stuck with, creating his own painterly language which involves movement between moments of close observation and of objective distance.

Every inch of a painting’s surface is important to him and each is painted with the same absorption and intensity. It is vital that the brush marks are both raw and immediate. When he paints flowers , or a city, it is the idea of flowers or a city; something of their essence, rather than their particular­ity, that is captured in paint. However intuitive a painting may appear, its journey is rarely haphazard, but part of a process of looking and a continuing dialogue with the material of paint.

Takashi Arai · Sue Arrowsmith · Pierre Bergian · Celine Bodin · Susan Derges · Ralph Fleck · Laila Tara H · Andrzej Jackowski · Leila Jeffreys · Ken Kiff...

Whether symbols of love, sensuality, beauty, innocence, diversity, death, transience or the course of life, all of these artists have shared a mutual fascination for the flower. Choosing to render...

RALPH FLECK / PAT HARRIS / ANDRZEJ JACKOWSKI / DAVID QUINN

Purdy Hicks is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Ralph Fleck, and new paintings and drawings by Claire Kerr