Karlheinz Beer

Karlheinz Beer (born August 30, 1953 in Amberg ) is a German artist who is best known as a painter , set designer and costume designer. He lives in Bamberg and Venice .

life and work

Karlheinz Beer has been a painter since 1983, and later also with three-dimensional works and sculptures. In 1988, he was the State of Bavaria for the Villa Massimo proposed scholarship in Rome, in 1996 he had a US scholarship, 1999, he was part of an exhibition in Bamberg Cathedral with the price of Bamberg excellent. Exhibitions took place u. a. in art associations and museums all over Germany, at the VCCA in Virginia / USA, in the National Museum Breslau , Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum Schloss Gottorf, etc. a. Since 1982 Beer has also created stage spaces and costumes for theater and opera, including numerous world premieres - the only world premiere in the 20th century of a work by Richard Wagner ( Leubald ) in Bayreuth ( Studiobühne Bayreuth ) that was previously believed to be lost .

Karlheinz Beer's works are in public and private collections (e.g. Bavarian State Painting Collections).

Works in the Bavarian State Painting Collection

The Bavarian State Painting Collections contain:

• Venetian swatch. Oil on canvas, 1994
• Cloud. Graphite on cardboard, 1991
• The curtain of the temple. Graphite and gouache on wood
• Marble. Graphite and gouache on wood
• Shift. Graphite and gouache on wood

Selected sets

• The love boy's ring by Uwe Hoppe , Bayreuth Studiobühne 1982
• Leubald von Richard Wagner (world premiere), Studiobühne Bayreuth 1989
• Il re pastore by WA Mozart , Fürstbischöfliches Opernhaus Passau 2002
• Die tote Stadt (“La città morta”) by Gabriele D'Annunzio , Stadttheater Landshut 2003
• The happy vineyard by Carl Zuckmayer , Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern 2003
• Don Giovanni by WA Mozart, Prince-Bishop's Opera House Passau 2004
• Nathan the Wise by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , Theater Regensburg 2004
• Francesca da Rimini by Riccardo Zandonai , Fürstbischöfliches Opernhaus Passau 2006
• The dead city by Erich Wolfgang Korngold , Fürstbischöfliches Opernhaus Paussau 2009
• Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti , Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck 2013
• The Marriage of Figaro by WA Mozart, Chamber Opera Cologne 2014 (stage and costumes)
• Peer Gynt Ballet by Mark McClain, music Edvard Grieg a . a. (Overall design), Landestheater Coburg 2015
• Tristan and Isolde by Richard Wagner, Landestheater Niederbayern 2016

literature

• Karlheinz Beer - graphite. Theuern Castle Mining and Industry Museum, 1990
• Eugen Gomringer : Karlheinz Beer - the gray period. 1990
• Karlheinz Beer - Wagner's Worlds. PPP Pegnitz, 1989
• Creation, man, future. Archdiocese of Bamberg, 1999
• Theater for Bayreuth. ISBN 3-928543-10-5
• Karlheinz Beer - purple pink. Edited by the Schwetzingen Art Association, Dr. Dietmar Schuth, 2013 and Palazzo Albrizzi Venice, 2014/2015

Web links

• Karlheinz Beer in Kulturatlas Oberfranken 2002–2008 (pp. 45–49) and in Kulturatlas-Oberfranken: Beer, Karlheinz ( memento from January 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
• Personal websites of Karlheinz Beer