Kurt Bartel

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Kurt Bartel (born December 28, 1928 in Berlin ) is a  German  painter  and representative of the  Informel .

life and work

Bartel studied from 1950 to 1955 at the University of Fine Arts in West Berlin (today Berlin University of the Arts ). In the standard work “Neue Kunst nach 1945” published by Will Grohmann in 1958 , Kurt Bartel (still) became a tachist together with later representatives of informal painting such as Emil Schumacher , Bernard Schultze , Karl Fred Dahmen ,  Gerhard Hoehme , Winfried Gaul , Otto Greis and  Heinz Kreutz and Wols called. Will Grohmann is considered one of the most influential art critics of the 1950s and 60s. In 1962 he personally gave the laudation for the opening of a solo exhibition by Kurt Bartels in the Berlin gallery Diogenes ( Günter Meisner / artist group ZERO ), which was groundbreaking for contemporary art . A year earlier, it was the art historian and later founding director of the Berlinische Galerie Eberhard Roters who introduced the exhibition with Bartels work at the same point.

At first glance, Bartel's painting may seem purely abstract. She always leaves room for the observer to see it for himself. When looking at his oeuvre, however, one is surprised by Bartel; You can find figurative objects such as portraits as well as abstract objects such as the “light knots” he created in 1960 in his work. Bartel sees no contradiction in this; he translates what he has seen into his own visual language. “The processes are by no means determined by the content, but by the composition. Black bars move in the foreground, individually, in twos or threes. Although recognizable, their function is to locate the image. This is how signs emerge that remove representationalism and lead to expressive forms. The picture in the picture (rectangle) is the simple sign. It expresses space and uses gestural and random elements. The abstract is more spiritual than the concrete. In representational representations there is always more or less weight of the earth, and its vibrations are not free. "

Kurt Bartel is perhaps the last working representative of the Informel in Germany. An idiosyncratic artist who, due to his absence from the Berlin art scene of the late 1960s and 1970s, owed to the relocation of his center of life to Austria, seems almost forgotten today. Kurt Bartel has lived and worked in Leipzig since 1994 .

Exhibitions

  • 1957 Friedrich von Raumer Library, Berlin
  • 1958 Gallery Franck, Frankfurt / Main,
  • 1958 Buchholz Gallery, Madrid,
  • 1958 Layetanas Gallery, Barcelona
  • 1959 Gallery 59 Aschaffenburg Gallery Brusberg , Hanover
  • 1961 Galerie Diogenes, Berlin, opening by Eberhard Roters
  • 1962 Diogenes Gallery, Berlin, Will Grohmann opens
  • 1964 Gallery Miniature, Berlin
  • 1967 Gallery Aspects, Baden-Baden
  • 1969 Cornels Gallery, Baden –Baden
  • 1970 Gallery in the Schinkel Hall, Berlin
  • 1972 New Berlin Art Association
  • 1975 KIK - Art in the Department Store, Berlin, Galerie Friebe, Cologne
  • 1978 Rathaus-Galerie, Berlin, Neukölln Art Office
  • 1979 Junior Gallery, Vienna
  • 1980 Cartouche Gallery, Berlin, gallery at “Karlchen”, Kampen / Sylt
  • 1985 Rosenzweig Gallery, Bonn
  • 1989 Jahnhorst & Preuss Gallery, Berlin
  • 1990 Jahnhorst & Preuss Gallery, Villach
  • 1996 Reinke Gallery, Berlin
  • 1997 Reinke Gallery, Berlin
  • 1998 Reinke Gallery, Berlin
  • 2001 Galerie Bremer , Berlin
  • 2003 Galerie Bremer, Berlin
  • 2017 Gallery ARTAe, Leipzig
  • 2018 Gallery Art Council, Leipzig

literature

  • Will Grohmann (ed.): New art after 1945. Painting. DuMont, Cologne 1958, p. 184.
  • Artistas de hoy: Kurt Bartel. In: Revista. De Actualidades Artes y Letras , Vol. VII, No. 302, 25. – 31. January 1958.
  • Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (ed.): Kurt Bartel: "Puppen" painted 1971–1972. Exhibition catalog, Berlin 1972.
  • Cheers Bartosch: Kurt Bartel. Exhibition catalog Kunstamt Neukölln, Rathaus-Galerie, Berlin 1978.
  • Kurt Bartel. Leipziger Spinnerei discovers a forgotten artist. Online: https://www.mdr.de/kultur/ausstellung-leipzig-kurt-bartel-ans-licht-100.html . Last updated: March 9, 2018, 00:00.
  • Sara Tröster Klemm : Light and change as a concept. The painting by Kurt Bartels. In: Exhibition catalog Kurt Bartel. To the light. Retrospective 1957-2017 , basement 14, cotton spinning mill Halle 14, Leipzig 2018.
  • Sara Tröster Klemm : To the light, Kurt Bartel! About the rediscovery of a great modern painter. In: Leipziger Blätter , No. 72, spring 2018, pp. 88–91.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Will Grohmann (ed.): New art after 1945 painting. DuMont, Cologne 1958, p. 184.
  2. ↑ https://www.goethe.de/de/kul/bku/20373534.html
personal data
SURNAME Bartel, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and representative of the Informel
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin