Exhibits

“Should one wish to name the most important characteristic traits of the painting of Heinz Trökes, these would primarily be facility, playful imagination and almost unlimited inventiveness. There is hardly another German painter whose paintings radiate such an undiluted, earthy joie de vivre in the 1950s as those of the Rhineland native, at a time when abstract art was still subject to such enormous pressure to prove its legitimacy and most artists attempted to metaphysically elevate and, also in a political sense, justify their works with sometimes uptight seriousness. One can sense it: Trökes didn’t allow himself to be utilised for any world view or ideological hobby horses. He wasn’t about ideas. The freedom that began for him with the end of the war, and which he relished in real terms in Paris, on Ibiza and in the course of his countless extended journeys, also incorporated the inner freedom to repeatedly redefine and reinvent himself and the painting again and again.” Cited from: Heinz Trökes, Werkverzeichnis der Ölgemälde, Markus Krause, Prestel, Munich 2003