Heinrich Leonhard Grötsch

Heinrich Leonhard Groetsch was born on Dec 18, 1947 in Wuerzburg (Germany). In 1974 he successfully finished studies at Wuerzburg University. In 1984 he and his wife moved from Wuerzburg to Fulda, because of a job in a German subsidiary of an English company. Fulda is situated 100 km north of Wuerzburg und 100 km west of Frankfurt.
Since his childhood Leonhard liked to paint, but he is a self-taught artist, who had never had any courses in art with the exception of lessons at secondary and high school. He learned doing art on canvas or paper by literature and practice.
Nevertheless he created a style which he called Count-Art in the mid-1990s. This style is based on figure equivalents of Hebrew alphabet. In 1992 he organized his first two single exhibitions. In 2005 he joined Art Association of Fulda and meanwhile he took part in more than 35 group exhibitions and he became part of the board of the association. In October 2016 Leonhard had had another single exhibition at Art Gallery of Art Association Fulda (Germany) where he presented Count-Art for the first time. In 2018 he had had a single exhibition in Vienna (Austria) and an exhibition near Würzburg, where he was born. One of his portraits was surprisingly sold to India v...

I'm a true self-taught artist by literature and practice and since the year 2005 I'm member of Art Association Fulda (Germany). Since about 1965 I used oil colours, which became my main technique on canvas or paper. In the beginning of the 1990s the size of my paintings increased to 40 inches or more but it is important for me to be able to transport a painting via my car.

- 1992 two solo exhibitions,
- 2006 one group exhibition,
- 2007 two group exhibitions,
- 2008 two group exhibitions,
- 2009 two group exhibitions,
- 2010 three group exhibitions,
- 2011 two group exhibitions,
- 2012 three group exhibitions,
- 2013 three group exhibitions,
- 2014 four group exhibitions,
- 2015 three group exhibitions,
- 2016 one solo exhibitions and three group exhibitions,
- 2017 four group exhibitions,
- 2018 three group exhibitions and one solo exhibition,
- 2019 three group exhibitions, and one online exhiibition in Zurich, Switzerland
- 2020 three group exhibitions, and one online exhibitions in Zurich, Switzerland,
- 2021 two group exhibitions and on online exhibition,
- 2022 two online exhibitions via Artbox Projects
- 2023 two group exhibitions and some online exhibitions,
- 2024 some online exhibitions and one group exhibition