Bernhard Jäger
Bernhard Jäger (born June 17, 1935 in Munich ) is a German painter , graphic artist and sculptor .
Life
After studying biology from 1956 to 1957, he studied at the Werkkunstschule Offenbach from 1957 to 1961 . From 1983 to 1984 he was a visiting professor at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main , from 1985 he headed their evening school until 2000. In 1990 he was visiting professor at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences .
From 1961 to 1966, Jäger and Thomas Bayrle , with whom he founded the Gulliver Press in 1961 , ran a joint lithography workshop and also made a name for himself as a printer and publisher of artist's books. One of Ernst Jandl's first books (Hosi-Anna !, 1965) appeared in the Gulliver press - illustrated with lithographs by Bayrle and Jäger. In 1970, 1984 and 1994 books illustrated by the artist were awarded the prize “The most beautiful books of the year” by the Stiftung Buchkunst . In 1998 he received an art award from the Heitland Foundation . In 2007 he designed thirty book covers for Jorge Luis Borges ' Die Bibliothek von Babel for the Gutenberg Book Guild .
Jäger lives and works in Frankfurt am Main . He has been a member of the Darmstadt Secession since 1980 .
Solo exhibitions
- 1968 Klingspor Museum , Offenbach am Main
- 1972 Brusberg Gallery , Hanover
- 1975 AAA Associated American Artists, New York
- 1977 Mannheimer Kunstverein , Mannheim
- 1985 Gunzenhauser Gallery, Munich
- 1988 Kunstverein Wetzlar, Wetzlar
- 1994 City Museum Ludwigshafen
- 2007 Klingspor Museum , Offenbach am Main
- 2016: Paintings, drawings, woodcuts, book art , Städtische Galerie Speyer
Participation in exhibitions
- 1963 Writing and Image , Stedelijk Museum , Amsterdam
- 1963 Exhibition Art Prize of the Young, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
- 1964 documenta III , Kassel
- 1965 Signals, manifestos, protests , Kunsthalle Recklinghausen
- 1970 Graphics '70: Germany , San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (USA)
- 1976 German graphics in the 20th century , Kestnergesellschaft , Hanover
- 1995 Darmstadt Secession , Mathildenhöhe , Darmstadt
- 1996 The art of printing with stones , Klingspor Museum , Offenbach
- 2017 Because of flat , masterpieces of lithography, Klingspor-Museum, Offenbach
Works in public collections
- Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum
- Berlin State Museums , Kupferstichkabinett
- Dresden Kupferstichkabinett
Literature (selection)
- Thomas Bayrle, Bernhard Jäger: Gulliver-Presse 1961–1966 , Grafik-Verlag, Frankfurt, 1991.
- Gouaches, drawings, prints , Galleria Henze, Campione d'Italia (Lugano), 1974.
- Monotypes , catalog for the Heitland Art Prize, Frankfurt 1998.
Web links
- Literature by and about Bernhard Jäger in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hunter, Bernhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, graphic artist, designer and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 17, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |