Bromer Gallery
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| place | Roggwil |
| architect | Marie Aigner |
| opening | 2011 |
| operator |
Bromer Gallery
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| management |
Pier Stuker
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Galerie Bromer is a Swiss art gallery that was founded by René Brogli in November 2011 and is based in Roggwil in the canton of Bern . The gallery's focus is on the one hand on classical modernism with names such as Cuno Amiet , Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , Giovanni Giacometti and Ferdinand Hodler , and on the other hand on contemporary art with works by artists such as Günther Förg , Markus Lüpertz or Richard Long .
building
The building, which was designed in 2003 by the Munich architect Marie Aigner in collaboration with Bromer Architects, is situated on the edge of a protected landscape. The building complex has an air-conditioned warehouse and a multi-media room with 50 seats. In 2019, the gallery was relocated to the adjacent glass pavilion, where Swiss and international art is continuously presented in thematic and artist-specific exhibitions.
collection
The Bromer Art Collection is René Brogli's private art collection. This comprises over 2000 works and contains works by representatives of the Geneva and Munich Schools such as Alexandre Calame , François Diday , Robert Zünd , Johann Gottfried Steffan , but also works by Ferdinand Hodler and his students Louis Dürr , or Stéphanie Caroline Jeanne Guerzoni (1887–1970 ).
In recent years, the collection has been supplemented with works by contemporary and international artists, including works by Jonathan Meese , Richard Long, Gerhard Richter and Sabine Hertig.
Artist funding
Galerie Bromer is also active in promoting artists and has already implemented several projects in this area. In autumn 2013 she presented the first major retrospective of the German painter Clara Porges (1879–1963), who lived in Switzerland from 1918, with over 130 works and supported the publication of a multi-volume, comprehensive monograph by Sergio Michels on the artist.
In 2014 a landscape painting by the Swiss painter Rudolf Häsler, who was born in Interlaken , came to the Bromer Art Collection by chance . René Brogli discovered the importance of the painter, who had been almost forgotten in Switzerland up to this point in time, and who had a moving life story. Häsler is a representative and pioneer of hyperrealism . He lived temporarily in Cuba and was director of the National Institute for Applied Arts in Havana under Fidel Castro from 1960 to 1963 . The reappraisal of his work culminated on November 12, 2016 with the premiere of the documentary “Coca-Castro”, framed by the simultaneous opening of the largest retrospective exhibition to date, both of which were launched by Galerie Bromer. In addition to each other, the film and the exhibition shed light on Häsler's life as a citizen of the world and his painterly work as a photorealist from the very beginning. In the spring of 2017, the book Kuba - Freiheit oder Terror: A Painter Experiences the Revolution , written by Häsler and first published in 1972, was reissued in two languages by Edition Bromer . At the same time, a 476-page artist monograph on Rudolf Häsler was published.
Galerie Bromer works closely with the estate of Rudolf Urech-Seon (1876–1959) and works to ensure that the works of this artist are recognized again. When Swiss painting was looking for idyllic surroundings in the 1930s, Urech-Seon looked closely and looked for geometrical forms in nature. Non-representational art had already been invented abroad, but in Switzerland, especially in Aargau, Late Impressionism continued to flourish and people had no understanding for the unknown. Urech-Seon therefore had only one option: to find his way alone. He was not a city dweller in a rural environment, but a loner who reinvented abstract art for himself; in his studio in Seon. In 2017, the Bromer gallery supported the creation of the first extensive artist monograph “Tritt in die Neuzeit. The rediscovery of the artist Rudolf Urech-Seon - an antihero of modernity ». The gallery also dedicated a solo exhibition to the artist's oeuvre.
In honor of the 150th birthday of Cuno Amiet, Bromer highlighted the oeuvre of the pioneer of modern painting in Switzerland in a retrospective in 2018. Over 220 works by Amiet from eight decades were presented on 1600 m². This also included works that had never been shown in a public exhibition. The comprehensive exhibition catalog was published by the in-house publisher Edition Bromer .
Exhibitions (selection)
2011
- «The painter Arnold Ammann» (1920–1991)
2012
- Work exhibition Fred Baumann (* 1947)
- Retrospective René Villiger , in Sins
2013
- Lovin'it! with Gerhard Richter , Ragnar Kjartansson (artist) , Roman Signer , Bridget Smith, a. a.
- I'm your neighbor! with Beni Bischof, Sabine Hertig, Jonathan Delachaux, Omar Ba, Elisa Larvego, Julia Steiner and others
- «Die Malfrau» Clara Porges - a retrospective (publication of a monograph)
2014
- Alpöhi - contemporary landscape paintings by Daniel Eisenhut (* 1974)
- Berg - Farbe - Form , Thomas Seilnacht (* 1963) (publication of a monograph)
- Profumo di limoni , Antonio Marra (* 1957)
- Work exhibition by Fred Baumann (* 1947) and Sam Drukker
2015
- "Zeitzeiger" - transformation of ancient imagery with Pavel Schmidt , Chantal Michel (* 1968), among others
- "Mountain Water" - annual exhibition of the Swiss artists' association Gilde Schweizer Bergmaler
- «Lights of the North», Franz Bucher
- Retrospective Rudolf Urech-Seon (1876–1959), in Seon
2016
- Antonio Marra work exhibition
- Works exhibition Valentin Roschacher
- Exhibition Rudolf Häsler and premiere of the documentary Coca Castro by Daniel Bleuer and Christian Herren
- Luc Chessex works exhibition
- Collector's Choice: Cuban Art
2017
- Retrospective - Urs Burki “Chaos and Order. Works from 1973 to 2017 "
- Nature photographs by Roland Fürst
- Synthesis - Angela Glajcar and Thomas Röthel
- Collector's Choice: German Expressionism
- Rudolf Urech-Seon
2018
- Cuno Amiet , retrospective for the 150th birthday, masterpieces from eight decades
- Sam Drukker - Figures
- Thomas Röthel - Cabinet Exhibition
2019
- Behind the visible. From Romanticism to Symbolism in Switzerland
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Paintings of German Artist Dirk Salz Will Play With Your Perception , artnet Gallery Network, March 19, 2019
- ↑ René Villiger memorial exhibition in Sins, renevilliger.ch
- ^ Information about the exhibition at Bromer Kunst on Gerhard Richter's homepage, gerhard-richter.com
- ↑ Frith Street Gallery: Bridget Smith at Bromer Art Collection, frithstreetgallery.com ( Memento of the original from April 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Homepage Beni Bischof, archive link ( Memento of the original from April 8, 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.
- ↑ Agenda Berner Zeitung, archive link ( memento of the original from April 8, 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.
- ↑ Christina Studer: Thomas Seilnacht, Mountain - Color - Form. Seilnacht Verlag & Atelier, Bern 2014, thomasseilnacht.ch
- ^ Berner Zeitung : Artistic encounter, bernerzeitung.ch
- ↑ durchzwei - studio for design, durchzwei.ch
- ^ Exhibition catalog and website of the Swiss Mountain Painters' Guild (GSBM), gsbm.ch
- ↑ Invitation to a performance with Franz Bucher and percussion artist Christian Bucher on xlyon.ch, xylon.ch (PDF).
- ^ Fränzi Zwahlen-Saner: This almost forgotten hyperrealist was an artist and revolutionary. In: Aargauer Zeitung. Online edition November 12, 2016, aargauerzeitung.ch
- ^ Nora Devenish: "Coca-Castro" celebrates its premiere. In: Jungfrau newspaper. November 10, 2016, accessed January 19, 2019 .
- ↑ Barbara Graber: He joined those who were detached . In: Berner Zeitung, Berner Zeitung . February 4, 2017, ISSN 1424-1021 ( bernerzeitung.ch [accessed April 15, 2017]).
- ↑ sdroz: Vexer Verlag - Urs Burki Chaos Order (2). (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 16, 2017 ; accessed on April 15, 2017 . 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.
Coordinates: 47 ° 15 ' N , 7 ° 49' E ; CH1903: 629,149 / 232377