Bernhard Schnetzer

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Bernhard Schnetzer in the studio 2010

Bernhard Schnetzer (born August 11, 1937 in Eglofs , Wangen district in West Allgäu ; † July 19, 2013 in Wangen im Allgäu ) was a trained decorator and worked in other artistic fields in painting, printmaking, sculpture and art in public spaces.

Life

Artistic career

Bernhard Schnetzer, Allee , 100 × 80, acrylic, 1994
Bathers , private property
Into the shadows of the mountains , 40 × 40, acrylic, 2007

Schnetzer was born in his parents' house in Eglofs . His parents ran a household goods store here. After completing elementary school in 1954, at the age of 14, he began training as a painter in Wangen . From 1958 to 1960 he was trained as an advertising designer in Stuttgart and in 1972 he won 2nd prize at the Schiesser shop window competition. From 1967 to 1968 he completed a correspondence course for commercial art at Famous Artist Schools Amsterdam, he to the study at the Winter Academy in Kißlegg in the subjects of painting, drawing and etching at Erich Mansi annexed.

From 1994 to 1999 he attended the summer courses at the European Art Academy in Trier with Joe Allen and in 1997 was already the first prize winner at the Isny ​​annual art exhibition Bild und Klang . On his 75th birthday he was able to publish a selection of his paintings from 1978-2011 in a book and present them in an exhibition in the Badhaus Eglofs.

Schnetzer was a member of the Professional Association of Visual Artists Swabia South . He not only worked artistically in many associations in Eglofs, designed posters, certificates, the Westallgäuer Heimatpreis as a sculpture and played a decisive role in the artistic design of the village barn and the museum. He was the first chairman of the artist group arkade in Isny, where he designed exhibitions for regional artists. For ten years he was responsible for the annual art exhibitions in the old town hall in Eglofs with: Bernhard Schnetzer, Werner Specht , Maria Felder , Kurt Kimmich, Krzysztof Jarzebinski (Krakow), Ursula Dethleffs , Georg Schmilk, Werner Kimmerle, Walek Neumann , Maria Kaluza.

For Schnetzer, “painting was a personal expression” and he said: “The exciting thing about painting is that at the beginning you don't know what the finished picture will look like.” The art critic Fritz Hartmann described his painting as “modern expressive impressionism”. He also sees another expressive side: “The forms of reality are reduced to the elementary. The naturalistic is reduced to the expressive essential "

Exhibitions

  • Since 1983 regular participation in the Westallgäu art exhibition in Lindenberg
  • 1985 and 1997 gable gallery of the Kreissparkasse in Wangen
  • 1988 Eglofs town hall
  • 1998 Town hall with 10 artists from the region
  • 1999 Kempten, 50th art exhibition as part of the Allgäu Festival Week
  • 2004 District Office Ravensburg, "arkade" Isny ​​artist and artisan
  • 2007 and 2009 Hofgartensaal Kempten, BBK - Professional Association of Visual Artists
  • 2011 Municipal Gallery Espantor Isny , "arkade" Isny ​​artist

literature

  • Bernhard Schnetzer: Bernhard Schnetzer, drawings, color collages, painting 1978–2011 . Self-published, Eglofs 2012.
  • Wolfram Benz: Eglofs . History and Heimatverein Eglofs eV 2010, p. 63.
  • Wolfram Benz: From the shop window to the Allgäu galleries - portrait of Bernhard Schnetzer . In: Heimat Allgäu, Zeitschrift für Heimatpflege, Kempten 2014, no. 2, pp. 30–32.

Web links

Commons : Bernhard Schnetzer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vera Stiller: Bernhard Schnetzer has created a piece of home. In: Schwäbische Zeitung, August 20, 2012. Accessed March 7, 2017.
  2. ↑ BBK Bayern ( Memento of the original from November 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bbk-bayern.de
  3. ^ Museum Eglofs
  4. ↑ Vera Stiller: The glow in Bernhard Schnetzer's art remains. In: Schwäbische Zeitung of July 24, 2013, obituary. Accessed March 7, 2017.
  5. ↑ arcade Isny
  6. ^ Art exhibitions in Eglofs
  7. ↑ Werner Kimmerle
  8. ↑ Maria Kaluza
  9. ↑ Bernhard Schnetzer, 2012, p. 3
personal data
SURNAME Schnetzer, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Eglofs
DATE OF DEATH 19th July 2013
Place of death Wangen in the Allgäu