Jens Bommert

Jens Bommert (* 1962 in Bremen ) is a German painter .

Life and work

Jens Bommert studied 1985/1986 at the École des Beaux-Arts , Besançon and then until 1992 at the University of the Arts Bremen with Karl Heinrich Greune . He has had his own studio in Bremen since 1992 and works as a freelance artist. He is also a freelancer at the Kunsthalle Bremen and a lecturer at the Bremen University of the Arts.

Jens Bommert mainly paints places with dynamism and activity such as football stadiums, horse racing tracks, sailing regattas or the stock exchange floor , but nudes and still lifes are also among his works.

In 2002, Jens Bommert led a group of eleven painters who created a five-meter-high oil painting on the Christmas story based on the Gospel of Luke and the depiction of the Christmas night by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo .

Awards

• 1994: 3rd Prize for Art in Public Space, Hemmstrasse Project , Bremen (with Dolf Bissinger )
• 2000: 2nd prize for painting from the Werner-Kühl-Foundation

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

• 1999: InterFinanz, Düsseldorf
• 2000: Hong Kong Land Ltd., Hong Kong
• 2001: Kraft Foods , Bremen
• 2002: Kaponier Art Association, Vechta
• 2005: Bremen Press Club
• 2006: Volksbank Cloppenburg
• 2006: Vechta Town Hall
• 2006: Sparkasse Bremen

Group exhibitions

• 1991: Germination 7 , Center National D'Art Contemporin, Grenoble
• 1993: Center Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris
• 1993: Master class exhibition, Bremen
• 1996/1997: Art Cologne
• 2000: Fondation Coprim, Paris
• 2004: Kunstverein Chemnitz, Chemnitz
• 2007: Geld wie Sand , Kulturkirche St. Stephani , Bremen (with Dolf Bissinger and Henri Stridde)
• 2008: Bremen wodu , Gallery of the City of Pilsen

Publications

• 10.30 a.m. to 1.30 p.m. Text Dorothee Hansen. Mourning, Bremen 1996.
• Hans-Joachim Manske , Adelheid Biesecker and Louis-Ferdinand von Zobeltitz : Money like sand. An installation by Dolf Bissinger, Jens Bommert, Henri Stridde. For the opening of the Kulturkirche St. Stephani in Bremen in January 2007. Hachmann, Bremen 2008, ISBN 978-3-939429-42-5 .

Web links

• Jens Bommert on the website of the Bremen-Böhmen project of the Bremen and Pilsen municipal galleries

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Management team of the Kunsthalle Bremen
2. ↑ Dieter Sell: Modern picture of the old Christmas story ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the EKD website 
3. ^ The winners of the 1st Werner Kühl Prize