Bernhard Rebmann

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Bernhard Rebmann (born September 21, 1941 in Böblingen , Baden-Württemberg ) is a German painter , graphic artist and designer . He is one of the artists of classical modernism with a subject area ranging from academic landscape painting to surrealist  subjects . He was inspired by the New Objectivity of the 1920s and Fantastic Realism . This is how his main painting “Psycho Art” came about.

biography

Childhood and youth

Bernhard Rebmann was born in 1941 as the son of the machinist Otto Rebmann and his wife Karoline, née Schöck. He and his older brother Otto grew up with their mother. During the Weimar Republic, his father had served as a soldier in the 100,000-man army of the Tübingen garrison . After being taken over by the Wehrmacht , he was deployed on the western and eastern fronts. On August 3, 1943, he was killed as a lieutenant in the Wehrmacht in the battle for the central Russian city of  Oryol . In the post-war hardship, the mother, as a rubble woman and home worker, created future opportunities for the children. As a 12-year-old student he was already going in and out of the studios of Fritz Steisslinger (lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart) and the local Hamburg painter Hermann Höhne. With them he learned "perspective drawing as well as seeing nature". From then on, an artistic profession was his goal. Already in school he used his talent and drew "all schoolmates that you can all recognize". There were also large-format theater sets .

Art academy and practice

Rebmann began his artistic career in 1957 with an apprenticeship as a lithographer at the leading "Kunstanstalt Schuler" in Stuttgart . In 1959 he was accepted into the graphics class at the higher graphic technical school in Stuttgart under the direction of Leo Schobinger and Albrecht Appelhans . In 1961 he graduated from the Free University of Stuttgart as a graphic designer. At the same time Rebmann was a member of Gunter Böhmer's drawing class at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart . As a close friend of Hermann Hesse , this aroused Rebmann's interest in this writer. From 1960 to 1964 Rebmann was a painting student of Alfred Lehmann, a member of the Stuttgart Secession .

After completing his studies, Rebmann used his knowledge from 1962 to 1966 in the advertising department of IBM Germany. In 1967 he started his own advertising agency. The corporate identity of global companies such as Mercedes, IBM, Steiff, Dinkellacker, Ritter Sport and others was entrusted to him. He was awarded three first prizes in international and national competitions. In 2010 Rebmann gave up the agency and returned to painting.

Bernhard Rebmann had been married to the pedagogue Elisabeth Limberger, daughter of a government director from Stockach, since 1977. She died on August 3, 2018. The marriage remained childless.

Study trips and artist friends 

Bernhard Rebmann unternahm Studienreisen zu verschiedenen Orten der Weltkulturen. In den Jahren 1967 bis 1970 besuchte er Frankreich. Es folgten Italien mit Venedig, Rom, Neapel, Brindisi und Palermo sowie Griechenland mit Peloponnes, Athen, Saloniki und die Insel Lesbos. Einige Zeit später bewegte er sich wieder auf den Spuren der die europäische Kunst und Kultur beeinflussenden Antike. Er nahm an einer Grabungskampagne an der Akropolis von  Pergamon unter Leitung des Archäologen Rudolf Naumann vom Abteilung Istanbul des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts teil.

Artist friendships are part of all Rebmann's creative periods. From 1971 he cultivated cross-border contacts with Rudolf Hausner , who, like Ernst Fuchs, was one of the most prominent of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism . He became a master student of Hausner. These contacts lasted lifelong like the “lively dialogue” with Ernst Jünger and the television journalist Thilo Koch . For him, both were "very important contemporary witnesses of the 20th century". His friends include u. a. also the writer Friedrich Tübergen.

Picturesque work

Rebmann coined the name “Psycho Art” for his main painterly work. He says: “My painterly psychograms show the for and against each other of human individuals. I reflect on the social behavior of my contemporaries ”.

The result is representative paintings with surrealistic and fantastic pictorial elements that stimulate both imagination and recognition. The titles chosen by the artist indicate conscious and unconscious facts, such as the colored Psycho-Art cycle of five paintings: 1. Clash of feelings , 2. Soul journey afterwards .... , 3. Who sows the wind ... , 4 . Distant relatives , 5. Waking desire. The artist says: "I call my painting Psycho Art and I classify it in Fantastic Realism".

Act as an illustrator

Between 1975 and 1990 Rebmann was the illustrator of over 150 books. The topics from the daily life of leisure, work and society were also for the new media. A long-term collaboration developed with the Stuttgart writer Lore Krieg, whose short stories he illustrated. A specialty in the 1980s was the Stockacher jester book designed by Rebmann . It weighs twelve kilograms. The book in the format of 45 × 50 cm contains 70 drawings on handmade paper on the theme of " Carnival ". From 1980 to 2000 collaboration with Deike Verlag in Konstanz. Hundreds of illustrations from everyday life are created for the world press.

Exhibitions (selection)

From 1970 Bernhard Rebmann was regularly represented in solo and group exhibitions in Cologne, Waiblingen, Böblingen, Stuttgart, Weingarten, Singen, Stockach, Ludwigshafen, Blumberg and Überlingen, among others.

  • 2001ff: regular art exhibitions of the IBC in many regions.
  • 2005: “New Pictures”, Salem Castle , solo exhibition
  • 2002–2013: Solo and group exhibitions in several cities.
  • 2016: “Three artists in the Adler Post” in Stockach.
  • 2017: "Three Pictures and Three Secrets", Museum of European Art (NRW)
  • 2018 "My best 3" Bernhard Rebmann and artist friends. In the town hall of Stockach
  • 2019 "Art in the Customs House" Ludwigshafen , Internationaler Bodensee Club eV

Bernhard Rebmann's pictures can be found in the following art collections: Museum of European Art NRW, European Culture Foundation (EKS), Collection: “Art in the Knight's Hall” at Nörvenich Castle .

Honors and memberships

Rebmann's cultural and charitable commitment led u. a. to the following honors and memberships:

  • Member of the Hans Kuony association for the maintenance of the Swabian-Alemannic Carnival and support association for the Stockach jester's court
  • Member of the International Bodensee Club (IBC) for art and science  
  • Honorary member of the artist group of the European Cultural Foundation (EKS, Germany)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Künstlerarchiv Museum Europäische Kunst, 2017, accessed on July 18, 2018
  2. ↑ Description of the artist's work, Museum Archive 2016
  3. ^ Exhibition poster Kulturamt, November / December 2018. Retrieved November 18, 2018
  4. ↑ Invitation April 28, 2019
  5. ↑ https://www.stockacher-narrengericht.de/unsere-fasnet/verein-hans-kuony/ , accessed on July 25, 2018
  6. ↑ http://www.intbodenseeclub.org/
  7. ↑ http://www.europaeische-kultur-stiftung.org/unsere-kuenstler/
personal data
SURNAME Rebmann, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist of Fantastic Realism and Psycho Art
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Boeblingen