1. Florian Froehlich was, when starting out in art, strongly influenced by the School of Paris, in particular by artists such as Maurice Esteve, Charles Lapicque and Nicolas de Stael.
13 Facts About Florian Froehlich
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Florian Froehlich had had contacts with the world of art on a regular basis from childhood on, as he is related to the famous Zurich art dealer Peter Nathan.
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Florian Froehlich trained in medicine at the Universities of Zurich and Lausanne until 1996 and thereafter developed a progressive and lasting activity as an artist in tandem with his professional life.
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Florian Froehlich is living since 1996 in Porrentruy in the Swiss Jura.
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In contrast to normal stained glass which is not lit, Florian Froehlich is using in Saignelegier artificial light: indeed, three steles, called the Golgotha group, are strongly backlit.
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Occasionally, Florian Froehlich creates in relation to world events, such as for the Jura leg of the Tour de France 2012: he showed an art installation exhibited to thousands of spectators over a 24-hour period on July 8,2012.
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Since 2010, Florian Froehlich has worked very regularly with the ACHTZIG Gallery for Contemporary Fine Art in Berlin.
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Currently, Florian Froehlich's work is focusing on the human being and the interaction between individual and crowds.
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Florian Froehlich creates a kind of virtual human microcosmos notably by micro-sculptures integrated in painting-sculptures and sculpture-paintings.
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In fall 2013, Florian Froehlich had the novel idea to suggest the scenic integration of microsculptures in watches.
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From 2015 on, Florian Froehlich has gradually begun to change his focus from crowds to the human being in all their various individualities, with the Renaissance as his gateway to the subject, having concentrated mainly on sketching over a period of two years.
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One of the focuses of Florian Froehlich's work is the Biblical character, Haman, taking as his base a small sketch by Bartolomeo Passarotti whose subject was used in the painting of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo.
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In 2022, Florian Froehlich installed a very powerful stained glass installation at the Porrentruy cemetery - for his father-in-law Claude Duthe who died in 2019 - which he calls "fluxus vitae": Defying the tradition of a cemetery, he celebrates with this creation death by life.