Bernd Hering (painter)

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Bernd Hering (born July 5, 1924 in Hamburg ; † October 6, 2013 in Potsdam ) was a German painter , graphic artist , sculptor and art teacher.

Career

"Schevingen" by Bernd Hering, 1955
Painting "Schevingen", 1955
Gravestone of Bernd and Ruth Hering, 2016
Gravestone of Bernd and Ruth Hering, 2016
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Hering attended the humanistic Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Hamburg from 1936 to 1944. He received his artistic training at the Landeskunstschule Hamburg (later the Hamburg University of Fine Arts ) as a classmate of Horst Janssen , Paul Wunderlich , Vicco von Bülow and Harald Duwe with Alfred Mahlau and Willem Grimm . From this time there are numerous landscape pictures from northern Germany as well as drawings from the Hagenbeck Zoo, but also book illustrations (e.g. for the scoundrel postilles by Fritz Graßhoff ) and a comic series projected with Wolfgang viel but never published ('Jim Panse and Papa Vian ') receive. Hering became Wolfgang Menge's best man. Although he was considered the 'master student' of Willem Grimm, he decided to work as an art teacher because he had a family.

From 1954 to 1975 he taught again as an art teacher at the Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Hamburg. In addition, he was a lecturer at the teacher training seminar, member of the board of the professional association of visual artists and specialist representative in the Senate commission 'Art in Architecture'. Many of the pictures taken on his travels to Denmark and Scotland date from this time. From 1975 he lived and worked together with his wife, the painter Ruth Hering (née Kneipphoff), in his studio in Languedoc in southern France and - in winter time - in Felsberg .

Between 1975 and 2012, Bernd Hering made remarkable changes to his style. His large, pointillist paintings, painted in acrylic, are characterized by a 'metaphysics of the surface' (Werner Lehmann) and open - in the words of Oliver Dietrich - a view of landscapes freed from all metaphors. Bernd Hering himself understood these images as 'contemplation panels' which are intended to bring nature to the front of the viewer. For Bernd Hering, 'nature' was not just a landscape, but also the human body, which he 'archived' in drawings and sculptures. In addition to his artistic work, Bernd Hering has distinguished himself as a writer and writer of texts. In 2001 he published the book Calls from the Wilderness under the pseudonym Paul Emil Drasdo (Verlag Jahn und Ernst).

In 2010 Ruth and Bernd Hering moved to Potsdam to live with their relatives. Bernd Hering died in 2013 and was buried in the Bornstedt cemetery . His gravestone contains a sculpture that he made in 1992.

Solo exhibitions

  • 1969: Bernd Hering: Painting and Graphics , Charlottenburg Art Office
  • 1997: Painting and graphics , Neue Galerie , Kassel
  • 2016: The painter Bernd Hering and Regionales , Museum der Schwalm , Schwalmstadt

literature

  • Bernd Hering: painting and graphics; Art Office Charlottenburg 19.4. - May 10, 1969, catalog
  • Bernd Hering: Pictures, drawings, sculptures from the years 1973–1993. Edited by Sabine Hering . With essays by Werner Lehmann and Bernd Eichmann. Hower, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3922995160 .
  • Fritz Graßhoff : Scoundrel Postille . With illustrations by Bernd Hering. Publishing company. YES Keune. Hamburg 1947
  • Max Brandt: One Came Around the World (edited and edited by Edgar Walsemann). With 51 pictures by Bernd Hering, Verlag JA Keune, Hamburg 1948
  • Bernd Hering: Theses on the theory of colors, Felsberg 1999 (unv. Man.)
  • Bernd Hering: Simple rules regarding colors, Felsberg 2000 (unv. Man.)
  • Bernd Hering: Notes on Painting, Felsberg 2002
  • Pseudonym Paul Emil Drasdo: Calls from the wilderness. In verse. Jahn & Ernst, Hamburg 2001
  • Twinby: Memory - Bernd Hering, Potsdam 2014
  • Bernd Hering: Contes déréglés, eight volumes, Laval St. Roman 1981–1987
  • Artist in Hamburg, Hamburg 1982
  • P. Schmaling: Künstler-Lexikon Hessen-Kassel 1777–2000, Kassel 2001
  • Schweers II: 2002
  • Rump: 2005.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ De Gruyter online - biography accessed on October 24, 2017

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personal data
SURNAME Hering, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist, sculptor and art teacher
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 2013
Place of death Potsdam