Gerlach Gottfried Bommersheim

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Gerlach Bommersheim
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Concert with Gerlach Bommersheim

Gerlach Gottfried Bommersheim (born April 30, 1934 in Darmstadt ; † December 20, 2006 in Munich ) was a German artist , jazz musician and pioneer of psychoanalytic art therapy in Germany.

Life

Bommersheim's artistic career began with studying at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts with Charles Crodel and Rolf Cavael (1956 to 1960). Parallel to his studies, Bommersheim played as a vibraphonist and pianist in various modern jazz formations . Initially he played commercial jazz in army clubs and jazz clubs with musicians such as Gottfried Luber and Heinz Schellerer . In the mid-1960s he worked with Don Cherry and was involved in his score for the film Zero in the Universe by George Moorse (1966). He also worked on the soundtracks for Vlado Kristl's films .

After the first state examination, he worked as an art teacher in schools until 1969 and later as a lecturer and manager for specialist teachers for art education. From 1970 to 1973 he undertook a second degree (pedagogy, psychology, philosophy and art history) and additional training in group dynamics at the Society for Analytical Group Dynamics (training analysis with Wolfgang Schmidbauer ). From 1976 he learned Tai Chi ( Taijiquan ) from the teacher Toyo Kobayashi and later gave it himself lessons.

Work as a visual artist

In the 1960s and 1970s, Gerlach Bommersheim came into contact with artists from the group SPUR and the artist community Kollektiv Herzogstraße . With their socially critical thinking and acting, these artists contributed a great deal to making Munich a setting for artistic optimism and establishing a connection with international modernism.

In dealing with these artists, Bommersheim found inspiration for his own work.

“For me, drawing and painting is an eternal alchemical process in dealing with one's own and marterial resistance. Exciting adventure in which it is usually impossible to predict what will happen. The events are the result of dissonances and dissonances between me and the material, two parallel odysseys of getting to know each other. This is and will remain a practical process, irreplaceable by linear thinking. I am forced to stage surprises, become a director of chance, lucky guy to find and director of the unknown. "

- Gerlach Bommersheim, 1990s

The creative process was in the foreground at Bommersheim and was more important than the finished result. If you look at his pictures up close, it becomes clear that the reworking and painting over was part of his creative process.

Work as a jazz musician

In the 1970s, Gerlach Bommersheim accompanied American guest musicians such as Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson as a jazz musician . At the beginning of the 1980s, he founded his own quartet, which worked nationwide in the 1990s. He also played in the formation of the Swiss drummer G. Pechet-Reber ( Wald in Town , CD).

Work as an art therapist

Bommersheim is considered one of the pioneers of art therapy in Germany. In 1974 he founded a center for art therapy and the promotion of creativity. He had a teaching position at the specialist academy for curative education and in 1984 co-founded the working group for psychoanalytic art therapy (APAKT).

Works

  • G. Bommersheim, Little Red Riding Hood in black and white film Claus-Richter-Verlag; ISBN 3-924533-55-5

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SURNAME Bommersheim, Gerlach Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist, jazz musician and pioneer of psychoanalytic art therapy in Germany
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 2006
Place of death Munich