Hermann Reimer (painter)

Hermann Reimer (* 1959 in Münster ) is a contemporary German painter . From 1977 to 1983 he studied physics in Münster and graduated with a diploma. He then moved to West Berlin to study painting at the Hochschule der Künste (now Berlin University of the Arts ) . Hermann Reimer is a master student of Klaus Fußmann . Reimer worked regularly in Spain in the 1990s. In 1994 he received the second prize for “young art” from the city of Hamm .

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Interaction , 210 × 210 cm, oil on canvas, Hermann Reimer (2010)

lost time , 230 × 200 cm, oil on canvas, Hermann Reimer (2015)

One focus of Hermann Reimer's paintings is the visual representation of interiors. At first these were deserted hotel rooms, holiday flats or living rooms, whereby Reimer used researched photographs on the Internet. However, Reimer is not concerned with simply copying an already existing picture, but rather uses the distributions of furniture or other objects in the photos as a stimulus for the development of independent pictorial spaces.

Although the photographic templates refer to current existing rooms, Reimer's pictures sometimes have something from the past, as if you are in rooms that have not been changed for a long time. Some of the things shown appear like quotes from films or catalogs. In recent years, the rooms have increasingly opened to the outside, with the interior and exterior seeming to merge into one another. People also appear increasingly on the stage shown.

"The strength and fascination of the work lies in the skilful and often daring combination of familiar individual elements, which together, however, seem strange. They create a touching reality that activates one's own memories and at the same time celebrates the sometimes curiosities of everyday life."

In parallel to the above-mentioned group of works, landscape pictures are created in the warmer seasons, which are painted directly on site - i.e. plein air . This is where the influence of Fußmann comes to the fore, who began to paint again in nature, against the prevailing trend in the sixties.

Exhibitions (selection)

2014: Westphal Berlin - Art and Projects
2014: Lauth Gallery, Ludwigshafen
2014: ARTECK Gallery, Solingen
2014: Art fair Positions Berlin with Westphal Berlin - Art and Projects
2014: Gallery at Dom Billerbeck
2013: Art Circle Hameln
2013: Art Association Barsinghausen
2012: Gallery DORIS-BERLIN
2012: Messerschmidt art dealer, Flensburg
2012: Municipal Gallery, Filderstadt
2012: Kunstverein Bad Salzdetfurth , "Wood"
2011: Kunstraum 4, Horstmar
2011: Kunstverein Norden
2011: Kunstverein Rastatt
2011: Art Association Gundelfingen
2011: Galerie Steinrötter, Münster

literature

Protocols # 1 - Hermann Reimer - Catalog Stefan Westphal - Art and Projects, Berlin, 2014 Text contributions by Daniel Khafif. Berlin 2014
Hermann Reimer - Catalog for the exhibition in the rooms of the Vivantes management Foreword by Klaus Fußmann. Berlin 2010
Hermann Reimer - Catalog for the exhibition in the Archgallery, London, 2003 Text contributions by Martina Diemling. Berlin / London 2003

Web links

Individual evidence

^ From the foreword by Daniel Khafif, catalog "protocols # 1", Westphal Kunst und Projekte 2014

personal data
SURNAME	Reimer, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter
DATE OF BIRTH	1959
PLACE OF BIRTH	Muenster

[1] From the foreword by Daniel Khafif, catalog "protocols # 1", Westphal Kunst und Projekte 2014