Bernd Minnich

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Bernd Minnich (* 1941 in Hamburg ; † June 30, 1993 in Düsseldorf ) was a German artist , painter and professor of fine arts.

Life

Bernd Minnich studied archeology, geography and art history in Hamburg from 1962 to 1963 and art in Braunschweig until 1969 and at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe and Düsseldorf . In 1990 he became professor of painting at the Braunschweig University of Art . In 1972, the art curator Harald Szeemann invited him to the Kassel documenta 5 with his little “dream boxes” . He was on friendly terms with the artists Dieter Roth and Axel Heibel .

Minnich's pictures appear harmonious and are condensed in color. The colors are sometimes applied directly to large formats by hand without a brush. He primed blockboard three times with titanium white and then sanded it so that the colors lay on the smooth surface. "I enjoy formulating correct colors in the picture" For example, he took the finely divided, flaky, shimmering colors of the butterfly wing as an incentive to create a special aesthetic with this pure color in his own highly sensitive way. He liked to use certain shades of gold and silver. His pictures represent a harmonious world.

Minnich was married and lived in Düsseldorf from 1968 to 1992. He died in 1993 as a result of an earlier mistreatment that had caused him cancer.

Exhibitions

Awards

Illustrated books and catalogs

  • Bernd Minnich and Jaroslav Poncar. Painting, photography. Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, Düsseldorf 1993, ISBN 3-925974-23-7 .
  • Karl Böhmer, Monika Hillmer, Bernd Minnich, Achim Zielinski in color. Kunstverein Lippstadt 1992.
  • Arcadian Notes. Bacht, Essen 1992, ISBN 3-87034-049-5 .
  • Bernd Minnich, painting. Art Association Braunschweig 1991.
  • Painting. Bernd Minnich. Foreword: Friedrich Meschede. Text: Martin Hentschel. Kleinheinrich, Münster 1990, ISBN 3-926608-46-3 .
  • Bernd Minnich. Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum of the city of Duisburg. Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg 1974.

literature

  • Ingo Bartsch: nature, image, association. Franz Gertsch , Bernd Minnich, Fabrizio Plessi , Fausta Squatriti. Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs and Urban Development, Culture and Sport, Düsseldorf 2000.
  • Karl-Heinz Hering: Happy chaos. As we like it. Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, Düsseldorf 1981.
  • Lisa Hoever, Thomas Virnich , Bernd Minnich, Jochen Zellmann. Villa Romana Art Prize. Florence 1987.
  • Angelika Kindermann: Lights from inside the color fields. In: Art. No. 3/1991. ISSN  0173-2781 .
  • Heinz Liesbrock: Innocent beauty of color, pictures by Bernd Minnich in the Kunstverein Münster. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . dated April 30, 1990.
  • Helga Meister: Bernd Minnich, painter of the beautiful. In: Kunstforum international , Vol. 122 (1993). ISSN  0177-3674 .
  • Raimund Strecker: Always open - On the death of the painter Minnich. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. dated July 2, 1993.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ In: Kunstforum international. Volume 122 (1993).
  2. ^ FAZ of July 2, 1993.

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personal data
SURNAME Minnich, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist, painter and professor of fine arts
DATE OF BIRTH 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1993
Place of death Dusseldorf