Rosemarie Trockel facts for kids

Rosemarie Trockel (born November 13, 1952) is a famous German artist. She is known for being a conceptual artist, which means the ideas behind her art are very important. She creates many different kinds of art, including drawings, paintings, sculptures, videos, and large art pieces called installations.

Starting in 1985, she became well-known for making pictures using industrial knitting-machines. Trockel is also a professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, a major art school in Germany.

Early Life and Studies

Rosemarie Trockel was born in the town of Schwerte, Germany. From 1974 to 1978, she went to college and studied many different subjects like anthropology, math, and sociology. At the same time, she also studied art at the Werkkunstschule in Cologne. During this period, the artist Joseph Beuys was a big influence on the art scene there.

In the early 1980s, Trockel connected with a group of artists called the Mülheimer Freiheit. She began showing her work at a gallery in Cologne run by Monika Sprüth, which only featured art made by women.

Exploring Art in New Ways

The Frankfurter Engel is a monument in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Trockel created it in 1994.

Trockel's art often makes people think about other art styles or artists. She sometimes challenges ideas from movements like minimal art, which uses very simple shapes and forms.

Knitted Paintings

In 1985, Trockel started creating large pictures, but not with paint and a brush. Instead, she used industrial knitting machines. These "knitted paintings" often had repeating patterns or famous symbols, like a hammer and sickle. By using a knitting machine, which was often seen as a tool for women's work, she questioned traditional ideas about art.

Working with Different Materials

In 1994, Trockel created a famous monument for the city of Frankfurt called the Frankfurter Engel (which means "Frankfurt Angel").

Later in her career, she began to work a lot with clay. She also continued to make her unique knitted pictures, both by hand and with machines. In 2005, a major exhibition of her work called Post-Menopause was held at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne.

Major Exhibitions

Trockel's art has been shown in famous art events all over the world. She represented Germany at the Venice Biennale in 1999 and was part of the Documenta art festival in 1997 and 2012.

Some of her important solo exhibitions include:

• 2005: Post-Menopause, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
• 2012–2013: Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos, which traveled to museums in Madrid, New York, London, and Bonn.
• 2015: Märzôschnee ûnd Wiebôrweh sand am Môargô niana më, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
• 2018: The Same Different, Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden

Awards and Recognition

Trockel has received several major awards for her contributions to art.

• 2004 – Wolfgang Hahn Prize
• 2011 – Goslarer Kaiserring
• 2011 – Wolf Prize

See also

In Spanish: Rosemarie Trockel para niños