Bernhard Mrohs

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Bernhard Mrohs (born September 20, 1949 in Regensburg ) is a German painter who also worked as a jazz musician.

Biographical

Bernhard Mrohs was born in Regensburg in 1949. After school and commercial training, he studied at the Conservatory in Nuremberg bass at Georg Hörtnagel . He was co-founder and bassist of the German-American quartet A Touch of Jazz , with whom he worked for almost ten years, and a member of the Ansbach Chamber Orchestra . In addition, he was a music teacher and musician in other formations and participated in many studio, radio and television productions.

In 1989 Mrohs ended his career as a jazz musician and moved to England , where he worked at Emerson College until 1992 . There he came into contact with painting and sculpture and continued his education in these art directions. In the following years he dealt with the synthesis of form and sound, gave improvisation courses, made sound objects, wrote articles for various European magazines, organized exhibitions, workshops and concerts.

In addition to his artistic activities, he ran a bookstore with a gallery and studio until 2010 . Since then, Bernhard Mrohs has devoted himself exclusively to painting. He lives and works in Freiburg .

reception

His art is not attached to the object. It's abstract. For someone who has been influenced by improvised music, this almost goes without saying. Mrohs gestures in the non-representational. In his pictures he mostly concentrates on one or two central colors that determine the picture.

Publications (selection)

  • The Situation of Music Today . In: New View , London, 1991
  • Recorded Sound - Blessing or Curse . In: New View , London 1993
  • The record - curse or blessing . In: Info3 , Frankfurt, 1994
  • In the becoming field of polar forces . In: The Goetheanum , Dornach, 1999
  • HAIKU - 39 poems in the Japanese haiku tradition with pictures and drawings by the author , Freiburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-050964-3

Discography (selection)

  • A Touch of Jazz , Workshop Records 061
  • Life & Better Times , Forum Sulzdorf 010

Lexical entry

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Wernstein, 1999
  • Freiburg, 2006, 2008, 2010
  • Lahr, 2009, 2014
  • Stuttgart, 2010
  • Öschelbronn, 2011
  • Querceto / Italy, 2011

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Badische Zeitung of May 22, 2014
  2. ↑ Lahrer Zeitung of May 17, 2014

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personal data
SURNAME Mrohs, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and musician
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH regensburg