Gerhart Bergmann

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Gerhart Bergmann (born July 20, 1922 in Erfurt , † May 1, 2007 in Berlin ) was a German painter.

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Gerhart Bergmann was born in Erfurt as the son of the high school teacher Erich Bergmann and the housewife Margarete Bergmann. After leaving school he began an apprenticeship as a druggist under pressure from his uncle. After Bergmann was called up for military service in 1939, he suffered a serious war injury in 1940, as a result of which he was declared unfit for war after several hospital stays. From 1943 until the bombing raid on Dresden on February 13 and 14, 1945, he was able to study at the Dresden Art Academy (now the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts ), with Ernst Richard Dietze among others.

After losing all his work, Bergmann went to Berlin in 1946 and studied there at the Berlin University of Fine Arts (HfbK) with Max Pechstein . Following the master class examination , he visited Fernand Léger's studio in Paris for one year as a scholarship holder in 1952 , which resulted in an intensive examination of Léger's formal language. In 1954 Bergmann became a member of the German Association of Artists . In 1959 he received the advancement award of the Great Berlin Art Exhibition and in 1961 the Berlin Art Award (Young Generation). In 1961 he was appointed to the Berlin University of the Arts (HdK), today's Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). From 1963 until his retirement in 1990 he worked as a professor for free painting and graphics.

Bergmann made many trips, including to India, Thailand, Japan, Mexico and the USA. Italy (especially the island of Elba), France, Denmark and Switzerland became regular travel destinations. After his retirement, Bergmann bought a house in Dithmarschen, Schleswig-Holstein, where he built a studio. The color and shape impressions resulting from his travels were reflected in his paintings, large-format, non-representational oil paintings, as well as the Schleswig-Holstein landscape.

The grave of Gerhart Bergmann in Berlin-Friedenau

Gerhart Bergmann died in Berlin in 2007, a few weeks before an exhibition with numerous late works in Erfurt. With this, his hometown honored him on his 85th birthday. Gerhart Bergmann is buried in the Stubenrauchstrasse municipal cemetery in Berlin-Friedenau, in the immediate vicinity of his artist friend, the sculptor Gerson Fehrenbach . A sculpture by the sculptor Hans Scheib adorns his grave.

Gerhart Bergmann was married twice, with three children from the marriages.

Awards

  • 1959 Award of the Great Berlin Art Exhibition
  • 1962 Berlin Art Prize (Young Generation)

Exhibitions

Participation in exhibitions

  • 1947 Galerie Henning, Halle (Saale) with Hofer, Pechstein a. a.
  • 1957 "Five Painters", Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
  • 1959 "33 Young Painters", Kassel
  • 1960 "Berlin Place of Freedom for Art", Berlin, Vienna, Stockholm
  • 1963 Widmann Gallery, Bremen
  • 1964 "The Spirit of New Berlin in Painting and Sculpture", traveling exhibition through the USA
  • 1966 "International of Drawing", Darmstadt
  • 1974 Galerie Pels Leusden, Berlin
  • 1979 Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
  • 1984 Kobe City Museum, Kobe (Japan)
  • 1986 "Sculptor and painter at Steinplatz", Staatliche Kunsthalle Berlin , Berlin

Solo exhibitions

  • 1954 Galerie Bremer , Berlin
  • 1962 Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, Düsseldorf; Appel Gallery, Frankfurt a. M .; Gallery Diogenes, Berlin
  • 1963 St. Paul, Minnesota (USA)
  • 1965 Haus am Waldsee (with Gerson Fehrenbach), Berlin; Hoesch Museum, Düren; Grabowsky Gallery, London
  • 1966 Scottish German Society, Glasgow
  • 1967 Gallery S. Ben Wargin, Berlin
  • 1971 Felix Konstklubb, Stockholm
  • 1972 Lidköping Art Association, Lidköping (Sweden)
  • 1974 Galerie Bremer, Berlin
  • 1975 Bremer Gallery, Berlin
  • 1976 Schmiedel Gallery, Cologne
  • 1977 Bremer Gallery, Berlin
  • 1979 Bremer Gallery, Berlin
  • 1980 Moby Dick Gallery (with Waldemar Grzimek), Sylt
  • 1981 Bremer Gallery, Berlin
  • 1982 New Berlin Art Association, Berlin
  • 1984 Bremer Gallery, Berlin
  • 1986 Gallery Michelle, North Bay (Canada)
  • 1987 Nalepa Gallery, Berlin
  • 1989 Otto Eglau Gallery, Sylt
  • 1992 Bremer Gallery, Berlin; Gallery Nalepa, Berlin
  • 1997 Just Art Gallery (with Gerson Fehrenbach), Berlin
  • 1999 Grahn Gallery, Tabarz (Thuringia)
  • 2002 Dithmarscher State Museum, Meldorf (Schleswig-Holstein)
  • 2005 Waidspeicher, Zum Goldenen Krönbacken, Erfurt
  • 2007 Art Association in the Kunsthalle, Erfurt
  • 2009 Dithmarscher State Museum, Meldorf (Schleswig-Holstein)

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