Bernd Schwering

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Bernd Schwering (born June 7, 1945 in Lüdinghausen , Westphalia ; † September 8, 2019 in Nastätten ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Career

Bernd Schwering studied free and applied graphics at the Folkwang School in Essen from 1965 to 1969 . He then moved to the Hamburg University of Fine Arts and studied painting with Rudolf Hausner from 1969 to 1972 . He has been a member of the German Association of Artists since 1977 and was given a teaching position for painting at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz from 1982 to 1989 . With the landscapes he has been creating since 1970, he is one of those painters whose paintings and graphics have made the representation of nature return to art. Bernd Schwering was a member of the German Association of Artists . He lived and worked in Wiesbaden before moving to a house with a studio in Ebertshausen ( Rhein-Lahn district ).

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The artist's work consists of paintings that he executed on canvas with acrylic paint . For his naturalistic depiction, he did not use any technical aids - except for creating the subsurface with a spray gun . He did not apply the color in a “fine painting”, but in a “ pointillist ” manner. His motifs not only look realistic from a larger viewing distance , but the naturalistic approach is retained even at a short viewing distance. Before making large paintings , he executed scaled-down motifs as elaborated sketches to check the effect of the picture . Since the mid-1980s he has been painting small picture formats in acrylic on cardboard. In addition, screen prints were made in the 1970s to 1990s , which were also designed in a "pointilist" manner and which were printed with up to 50 different-colored image layers.

Motifs

Schwering was a contemporary landscape painter . His motifs, created between 1970 and 1972, show a view of clouds, trees, house facades, each disrupted by slats that segment the respective landscape section. While the "interventions" are still recognizable as objective phenomena, from 1972 onwards they are shifted to the circumstances of perception in the "pass-by landscapes": When viewed from the train window at 120 km / h, the foreground and middle ground appear like the images in the first Bernd Schwering's catalogs show (see literature) out of focus, while the center of the image remains motionless; a phenomenon that already inspired the painter Maurice de Vlaminck , a former cyclist.

Since 1975 Schwering has been painting agricultural landscapes and urban situations such as roadsides and construction sites (including the 6-part series “Every Day”, 1977/78) and “Frankfurt I” (1988). The examination of atmospheric changes, registered in rain, fog, overcast sky or darkness, led to a series of further suggestive images (“The days of the year”, 1981/82). From 1980, miniature biotopes come into the picture in paintings such as “Parking Lot” or “Gravel Pit”, usually small areas, often wedged between usable areas, which in reality are barely noticeable because of the seemingly lack of irritation.

These natural pieces, as can be seen in the second catalog of works between 1977 and 1991, heralded motifs that had been the most important pictorial object for 15 years from 1987: riparian zones, staged by the artist as nature theater, in which stones, Water and light - real conditions and at the same time original metaphors - embody basic human sensitivities. The landscapes “Elba” (1987), “Quiet Movement” (1987), “Beach” (1988) and “Kolimbitris” (2005) are reminiscent of a natural theater. The painting “ Alsumer Berg ” (170 × 240 cm), finished in 2005, shows a huge industrial area in the north of Duisburg (with sewage treatment plant in the foreground), which in the light of the morning June sun is able to unfold an unexpected, radiant beauty that is beyond all clichés. Then he also turned to small-format still lifes .

Special exhibitions

Works in public collections

Editions

literature

  • Apex interviews No. 1, (p. 7 - p. 18), Göttingen 1974/75
  • Bernd Schwering, pictures-drawings-graphics , with texts by Helmut R. Leppien and Armin Schreiber, Hoeppner, Hamburg, 1975
  • Bernd Schwering, painting from 1977 to 1991 , with texts by Gernot Böhme and Heiner Altmeppen , Grafik-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1991 ISBN 3-9802488-7-9
  • Armin Schreiber, when it flashes . About the experience of art in the neurobiological age, in: Merkur, Issue 6, June 2009, pp. 487–496

Web links

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  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Members "S" / Bernd Schwering (accessed on February 15, 2016)
  2. ↑ cover: TransAtlantik 10/1981
  3. ↑ Armin Schreiber: When it flashes - About the art experience in the neurobiological age . In: Merkur , No. 721, June 2009, p. 491
personal data
SURNAME Schwering, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Lüdinghausen , Westphalia
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 2019
Place of death Nasta