Bernhard Härtter

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Bernhard Härtter (* 1962 in Calw ) is a German painter and installation artist .

Live and act

Härtter studied from 1981 to 1988 at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe as a master student with Peter Dreher .

Glücksrampe (1987), art in architecture , sculpture at the shopping center (EKZ) in Freiburg-Weingarten , removed in August 2019

At his first major solo exhibition in 1991 in the Portikus exhibition hall in Frankfurt , Härtter showed an installation that consisted of countless individual images aligned horizontally and vertically. The white hard fiber boards with a uniform size of 11 × 11 cm showed rotational shapes made with thin lacquer paint, in which the color circles were each represented differently and thus in an infinite range of variation. Each individual board was attached to the wall on a small plinth cut from a triangular strip. During the installation , attention was drawn to the individual, each different parts, to the principle of order used, as well as to the resulting large, wall-filling form.

At the opening exhibition of the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt am Main in 1991, Härtter showed three three-dimensional objects created in 1989: a solid model house , a model highway loop and a model teapot and two cups . They consisted of painted pressboard, plasterboard and aluminum and had a format of up to 100 × 80 × 60 cm.

Härtter lives and works in Freiburg im Breisgau .

Solo exhibitions

  • 2006 Bernhard Härtter - Like voices of sleeping bird  - Galerie Schlégl, Zurich
  • 2003 DKM Foundation , Duisburg
  • 1991 Bernhard Härtter (exhibition 28)  , Portikus, Frankfurt am Main (1992 also Kunstraum München, Munich)

Participation in exhibitions

  • 2010/2011 Winter , Galerie Schlégl, Zurich
  • 2009 Collection XXL , Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiburg
  • 2008 irrelevant , Society for Art and Design , Bonn
  • 2005 praying for silence , Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Ludwigsburg
  • 2001 Transit , Kunstverein Freiburg im Marienbad, Freiburg
  • 1997 eyewitnesses. The Hanck Collection , Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf
  • 1994 vacancy. Comfortable Conceptions , Gallery for Contemporary Art - GfZK, Leipzig
  • 1991 Opening exhibition , Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt am Main

Works in public collections

literature

  • Sabine Hinrichs, Jochen Ludwig: Bernhard Härtter: Grasland, Städtische Museen Freiburg , Museum für Neue Kunst, 1997, ISBN 978-3-922675-65-5
  • Britta E. Buhlmann : Liga !: Eric Carstensen, Stefan Demary, Bernhard Härtter , Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Kehrer Verlag, 1999

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Internet site of the Portikus, Frankfurt am Main ( Memento of the original of July 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.portikus.de
  2. ↑ Andreas Bee (Ed.): Ten Years Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt am Main , DuMont, Cologne, 2002, ISBN 3-8321-5629-1 , p. 41 ff.

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Commons : Bernhard Härtter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Harder, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and installation artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Calw