Philipp Fröhlich https://philippfrohlich.com/en/home/ A Changing Display of Three Paintings by Philipp Fröhlich Thu, 15 Oct 2026 17:51:00 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://philippfrohlich.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/cropped-android-chrome-512x512-1-32x32.png Philipp Fröhlich https://philippfrohlich.com/en/home/ 32 32 Punishing Children https://philippfrohlich.com/en/punishing-children/ Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:11:00 +0000 https://philippfrohlich.com/?p=10788 I must have been about four or five years old when a cleaning lady came to our house, probably once a week for some time. She had a little son who was about my age, and I remember him being very aggressive. Having been a rather skinny and frail child myself, physical confrontation was always […]

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]]> Models https://philippfrohlich.com/en/models/ Sun, 11 Oct 2026 23:28:00 +0000 https://philippfrohlich.com/?p=10731 Some months ago, I participated in an exhibition celebrating a century of teaching scenography at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. It brought together a fascinating collection of material, including many models. It is a strange sensation to look at theatre models in an exhibition. Usually, they are built while developing a stage design and later used to […]

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]]> Birches and Magpies https://philippfrohlich.com/en/birches-and-magpies/ Sun, 27 Sep 2026 23:23:00 +0000 https://philippfrohlich.com/?p=10672 Birch trees are my favourites. They are awkward and slender in growth, but their real attraction is their bark. In winter especially, when all the foliage has disappeared, the graphic black-and-white pattern of the trunks dissolving into sinuous branches and drooping twigs is both intricate and erratic. In spring they have the most beautiful, fresh […]

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]]> Holes https://philippfrohlich.com/en/holes/ Sun, 13 Sep 2026 23:33:00 +0000 https://philippfrohlich.com/?p=10614 A hole is strangely difficult to define. Its most characteristic feature is that it is an absence. It can be a wanted or unwanted opening in a membrane separating two spaces. But it can also be a cavity or negative space within an object or terrain. A hole can still be measured, counted and named, […]

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]]> Tilted Perspective https://philippfrohlich.com/en/tilted-perspective/ Sun, 30 Aug 2026 23:54:00 +0000 https://philippfrohlich.com/?p=10557 I have this theory that we don’t actually face the world in a frontal manner, eyes fixed on the horizon, but rather with our gaze tilted diagonally downward. Granted, part of that theory might be influenced by my sloping posture, but I think there is more to it. Walking on two feet means that we […]

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]]> Shadows https://philippfrohlich.com/en/shadows/ Sun, 26 Jul 2026 23:21:00 +0000 https://philippfrohlich.com/?p=10502 Following the recent death of David Hockney, I came across a video in which he talked about shadows. His argument was that the emergence of cast shadows in Renaissance painting, after their comparatively limited pictorial significance in medieval painting as well as Chinese and Japanese art, was closely connected to the use of optical devices […]

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]]> Two Sides of the Same Coin https://philippfrohlich.com/en/two-sides-of-the-same-coin/ Sun, 12 Jul 2026 23:00:00 +0000 https://philippfrohlich.com/?p=10445 Every playing card carries two images. One gives the card its identity and rank. It is the face, distinguishing one card from another. The other is the back. It has to be decorative enough to be pleasant, repetitive enough to conceal, symmetrical enough not to betray orientation, and memorable enough to define the deck as […]

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]]> Borders https://philippfrohlich.com/en/borders/ Sun, 28 Jun 2026 23:07:00 +0000 https://philippfrohlich.com/?p=10396 As a young child, in the early 1980s, we lived in the northern countryside of western Germany for a few years. It was not far from the GDR and a couple of times, my parents took my brothers and me for a little hike along the border. You could see the fences and watchtowers in […]

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]]> Smoke https://philippfrohlich.com/en/smoke/ Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:25:00 +0000 https://philippfrohlich.com/?p=10343 Following the financial crisis triggered by the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, 2009 felt like a year marked by protest and unrest. Looking back, I’d say there were still fewer demonstrations than in the years that followed. But the atmosphere had certainly changed from the years before. Political and economic structures suddenly appeared unstable. […]

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]]> Taking Things Seriously https://philippfrohlich.com/en/taking-things-seriously/ Sun, 31 May 2026 23:01:00 +0000 https://philippfrohlich.com/?p=10302 A fellow painter saw this painting based on Sleeping Beauty in my studio while it was still little more than an underpainting and was particularly taken by it. I suspected he preferred this rougher state to the finished paintings, which probably seemed too polished to him. Months later we met again at an art fair […]

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