Eberhard Schweigert

Eberhard Schweigert (born August 19, 1942 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † December 31, 2004 in Düsseldorf ) was a German painter and art teacher .

life and work

Schweigert was born in 1942 as the son of the electrical engineer Herman Schweigert and the housewife Emma Schweigert. In 1949 he entered the Hornberg elementary school and from 1953 attended the Triberg grammar school. In 1964 he graduated from high school in Pfarrkirchen (Lower Bavaria). Until April 1966 he was a conscript. From 1966 to 1970 Schweigert studied stage and costume design at the "Von Parisch-Fachschule" in Munich and at the same time studied painting and nude with Professors Charles Crodel (1894–1973) and Eduard Aigner (1903–1978).

The first work on stages followed in 1968. Schweigert was assistant at the theater "Am Gärtnerplatz" in Munich and in 1969 artistic assistant at domestic and foreign theaters. From December 1969 to April 1970 he worked at the Chur City Theater. 1970 to 1975 he studied painting, stage design and film at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf with Professors Gerhard Richter , Wolf Jürgen Seesselberg and Ole John. Schweigert completed his studies in 1975 as a master class with Professor Gerhard Richter.

From 1974 to 1975 Schweigert temporarily headed the stage design class at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf and was a founding member of Joseph Beuys' Free University for Creativity and Interdisciplinary Research . In the following years until his death, Schweigert worked as an art teacher at various schools and taught at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences from 1982 and later also at the newly founded youth art school in Langenfeld.

Since 1972, Schweigert has presented his oil paintings, watercolors, drawings and gouaches in more than 20 solo exhibitions at home and abroad. “It is not the surface of nature that is interesting for him, but the area between external and internal impulses. Schweigert sees an astonishing similarity, for example, between a single-cell organism and the strange shape of a drying tar road. " This is what the Ruhr-Nachrichten Schwerte wrote on December 2, 1983 when the exhibition opened.

Schweigert had been with the actress Ingeborg Margret born on October 30, 1970. Helsper (1934–2008) married. He died unexpectedly after a short illness in 2004 in Düsseldorf.

Public works of art

Ceiling paintings

1992 Cafe Maushagen, Düsseldorf, Jülicherstraße 9 "Water lily pond viewed from below"

1996 Ob-Schwarzbach community center near Wülfrath, partly restoration and repainting in the floral style of the turn of the century

swell

• Aachener Nachrichten "Love for the visually beautiful" June 19, 1974
• Aachener Volkszeitung "The colored world of fantasy" June 19, 1974
• Südkurier "Different in Techniques and Stylistics" June 20, 1975
• Black Forest Messenger "In friendly colors rich in imagination" March 27, 1975
• Schwerter Zeitung, Ruhr-Nachrichten "Topics grow out of spots of color" December 18, 1975
• Ruhr-Nachrichten Schwerte "For Schweigert, the surface of nature is not interesting" December 2, 1983
• Westfälische Rundschau Schwerte "Inside Pictures - Outside Pictures" December 2nd, 1983

Web links

• Eberhard Schweigert (short info)
• Watercolor ("Listeners, Flutes")
• TUESDAY PICTURES (painter group)