F.L. Schröder
American, Born 1950
Frank Schröder was born in St Louis, Missouri. He studied art in Philadelphia at the Tyler School of Art and Temple University, and at the Cooper Union in New York. In 1979 his work began to appear in group shows. In 1981 he took part in the first all-sculptor show at the Hallwalls Center, whose catalogue noted, “Schröder is a formalist, but also a stylist who renounces volume in favor of achieving an illusion of velocity.” The artwork owned by the Vogels is a two-dimensional representation of one of those early sculptures. His first solo exhibitions took place during 1982, at the Robert Stefanotti Gallery in New York and the Galerie M. Szajcer in Antwerp, Belgium. Since 1988 Schröder has divided his time between Germany and the United States, holding shows in both countries. His works have been exhibited in the Phillip Brillet Gallery, the John Gibson Gallery, American Fine Arts, and the Nordanstad - Skarstedt Gallery in Stockholm. By the late ‘00s he was painting figurative oils on canvas, sometimes making them part of larger sculptures. “Frank Schröder,” explained a press release for a 2007 show that he curated at Thrust Projects, “uses his own work as both a comment on the problems inherent in any decision about displaying a work of art and a wry allegory of the plight of the modern artist, whose sincere expression is commodified by others.”