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biography
Dieter Kopp, born in 1939 in Prien am Chiemsee, Bavaria, was a German figurative painter who made Italy his adopted homeland. After completing his apprenticeship at the Mayer’sche Hofkunstanstalt in Munich, he moved to Paris in 1958, where he began painting and engaging with the international art scene. After three years in the French capital, Kopp settled in Florence, focusing mainly on drawing and regularly visiting the Uffizi Gallery to refine his technique. In 1966, he moved permanently to Rome, a city that became the heart of his life and artistic production, so much so that he is considered an artist deeply connected to the Italian capital.
In Rome, Dieter Kopp developed a painting style marked by a strong emphasis on drawing, as well as the use of tempera, oil, watercolor, and pastel. His works, often described as “modest, pale, veiled” but capable of “becoming precise, asserting themselves, taking on color and shining over time,” stand out for their veiled, elegiac precision, sometimes reminiscent of Vilhelm Hammershøi’s painting of silence. Kopp painted not only Rome’s iconic sites, such as the Pantheon or the Forum, but also hidden corners, courtyards, and terraces, capturing the city’s crepuscular and intimate atmosphere.
In the 1970s, Kopp spent long periods on the Greek islands of Corfu and Paros, where he created large en plein air landscapes, far from tourist clichés, focusing on rocky, silent scenes almost devoid of vegetation, as in the famous Kolimbithres-Paros from 1973. His first solo exhibition in Rome, curated by Antonello Trombadori at the Galleria “La Nuova Pesa” in 1974, marked the beginning of a career rich in recognition and exhibitions, including the retrospective “Tradition and Freedom” at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome in 2023. Critics such as Vittorio Sgarbi and Jean Clair have highlighted Kopp’s ability to transform reality into mental landscapes, projections of thought that stand on the threshold between being and appearance.
Dieter Kopp died in Ardea in 2022.
In Rome, Dieter Kopp developed a painting style marked by a strong emphasis on drawing, as well as the use of tempera, oil, watercolor, and pastel. His works, often described as “modest, pale, veiled” but capable of “becoming precise, asserting themselves, taking on color and shining over time,” stand out for their veiled, elegiac precision, sometimes reminiscent of Vilhelm Hammershøi’s painting of silence. Kopp painted not only Rome’s iconic sites, such as the Pantheon or the Forum, but also hidden corners, courtyards, and terraces, capturing the city’s crepuscular and intimate atmosphere.
In the 1970s, Kopp spent long periods on the Greek islands of Corfu and Paros, where he created large en plein air landscapes, far from tourist clichés, focusing on rocky, silent scenes almost devoid of vegetation, as in the famous Kolimbithres-Paros from 1973. His first solo exhibition in Rome, curated by Antonello Trombadori at the Galleria “La Nuova Pesa” in 1974, marked the beginning of a career rich in recognition and exhibitions, including the retrospective “Tradition and Freedom” at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome in 2023. Critics such as Vittorio Sgarbi and Jean Clair have highlighted Kopp’s ability to transform reality into mental landscapes, projections of thought that stand on the threshold between being and appearance.
Dieter Kopp died in Ardea in 2022.
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Dieter Kopp
(Prien am Chiemsee, 1939 - Ardea, 2022)
"Untitled"
oil on cardboard, signed lower right, within frame.
Exhibitions: Tradizione e libertà. Dieter Kopp, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, [..]
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