Fred Kocks (24 January 1905 – 1989) in Düsseldorf[citation needed] was a German landscape and figure painter, draughtsman and lithographer as well as curator, museum director and author.
Born in Ulm, Kocks studied painting with the Düsseldorf landscape painter Helmuth Liesegang.
He quickly rose to become curator of the Museum Kunstpalast[failed verification] and director of the Alte Kunsthalle.
With the oil painting Sommeridyll am Bach he was represented at the Große Deutsche Kunstausstellung in the Haus der Kunst in Munich in 1942.
[4] In 1944 he was among selected representatives of Art in Nazi Germany at the exhibition Deutsche Künstler und die SS [de] in Breslau.