Peter Schermuly

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Peter Schermuly in his Munich studio

Peter Schermuly (born October 19, 1927 in Frankfurt am Main ; † June 6, 2007 in Cesenatico , Italy ) was a German painter .

biography

Schermuly was born in Frankfurt am Main. He spent his childhood and youth in Wiesbaden , where he graduated from high school. Alexej von Jawlensky had lived in Wiesbaden, and the young Schermuly encountered his work everywhere in the collections of the Wiesbaden bourgeoisie. It was an antipode to Jawlensky's Expressionism who became Schermuly's first teacher: Otto Ritschl , who had not been allowed to exhibit under Hitler and who had meanwhile developed into a consistent representative of an “abstraction froide”, enabled Schermuly to study painting in his studio from 1947 .

During a long stay in the Engadine in 1953 and 1954, Schermuly got in touch with Hans Arp . Arp's suggestion supported an original tendency towards the playful and absurd. Schermuly wrote a large cycle of neodadaist poems, parts of which he published in the hermit press in 1958 . It was also Arp who arranged a study visit to Paris with Fernand Léger , where Schermuly studied in 1955 and 1956 in the Atelier des Fresques at the École Nationale des Beaux Arts with Ducos de la Haille and in contact with Sonia Delaunay and Victor Vasarely kicked. From 1961 to 1964 he lived again in Paris. During these years he began to break away from the dictates of non-representationalism. The first real bodies appeared in his painting, he studied the great naive, especially André Bauchant , then André Derain and finally, drawing on the unforgettable impression of his early youth, the Venetians and French painting between Poussin and David . Schermuly showed the results of this development process for the first time in an exhibition at the Museum Wiesbaden in 1965.

From the beginning, Schermuly's painting was accompanied by an extensive art theoretical activity. From 1961 Schermuly had been in charge of an art history series for French television, he had taught at English and American academies and had made some students painters. A sum of his teaching activities includes his film Ein Tizian by Rubens , which was produced for ARD in 1969 and which deals with the artist's work in the field of tension between tradition and originality.

In 1983, Isy Brachot attempted a first assignment in Brussels with his exhibition Collection A by presenting Schermuly together with the Anglo-Irish Stephen McKenna and the Swiss André Thomkins . Schermuly's special role was seen particularly clearly from the distance that Russia has to western art development. The exhibitions in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow in 1991 and in the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg in 1992 surprised the Russian public with a notion of realism not expected from Germany. In its 1997 exhibition The Pursuit of Painting, the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin juxtaposed nudes and still lifes with Schermuly's main works by Balthus and Lucian Freud , thereby emphasizing the German and French traditions of his painting.

Peter Schermuly lived and worked in Munich since 1978. He died in Italy on a trip to the pictures of his favorite painter Lorenzo Lotto .

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1963 Berry Lardy Gallery, Paris
  • 1965 Hessisches Landesmuseum, Wiesbaden
  • 1968 Galerie von Oertzen, Frankfurt am Main
  • 1976 Galerie Moering, Fantasias (watercolors 1975–1976)
  • 1978 City Gallery Villa Clementine, Wiesbaden
  • 1979 Agapi Gallery, Hamburg
  • 1980 Seifert-Binder Gallery, Munich
  • 1981 Sander Gallery, Washington; Atelier Castell, Frankfurt a. Main: drawings
  • 1986 Galerie Brönner, Frankfurt am Main (catalog)
  • 1989–90 Hessisches Landesmuseum, Wiesbaden, retrospective 1948–1989 (catalog)
  • 1991 New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (catalog)
  • 1992 Russian Museum, St. Petersburg (catalog)
  • 1993 Nikolaus Fischer Gallery, Frankfurt am Main
  • 1994 Galerie Schloß Neuhaus, Salzburg (catalog)
  • 1999 Broodthaers & Bertrand Art Gallery, Brussels
  • 2000 Gallery of the Bayerische Landesbank, Munich (catalog)
  • 2001 Döbele fine art, Dresden (Flyer)
  • 2007 Gallery P13, Munich, for the 80th birthday (Flyer)

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 1959 Städtisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie Wiesbaden: Deutscher Künstlerbund
  • 1983 Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels: Collection A (catalog)
  • 1986 Bismarckstrasse Gallery, Cologne: McKenna-Schermuly
  • 1993 1st Realism Triennial, Künstleronderbund Germany, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (catalog)
  • 1996 2nd Realism Triennial, Künstleronderbund Germany, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin: The Power of Images (catalog)
  • 1997 Irish Museum of Modern Art , Dublin: The Pursuit of Painting (catalog)
  • 1998 Galerie Art Store, Brussels: Salon Vache
  • 2005 Kommunale Galerie, Berlin, Künstleronderbund Germany: KYTHERA On the Secret of the Visible (catalog)
  • 2006 Städtische Galerie im Park, Viersen: StillLeben (catalog)
  • 2008 Kunstverein Coburg, Coburg, Künstleronderbund Germany: TRACES OF LIFE Realism of the present (catalog)
  • 2008 Galerie Burg Beeskow, Oder / Spree district, Künstleronderbund Germany: TRACES OF LIFE Realism of the present (catalog)

Literature (selection)

  • Giles Auty, Stephen McKenna, Martin Mosebach, Friedrich Piel in: Schermuly - Objects , Ernst Klett-Verlag, Stuttgart 1990 (book for the exhibition in Wiesbaden)
  • Martin Mosebach in: Schermuly - Abstract Structures of a New Realism , Hirmer-Verlag, Munich 1991 (book for the exhibition in Moscow and St. Petersburg)
  • Declan McGonagle, Stephen McKenna in: The Pursuit of Painting , Irish Museum of Modern Art Dublin and Lund Humphries Publishers, London 1997 (book accompanying the exhibition in Dublin)
  • Martin Mosebach and Bruno Russ in: Schermuly - Objects and Fantasies , Anderland-Verlag, Munich 2000 (book for the exhibition in the gallery of the Bayerische Landesbank Munich)
  • Bernhard Rupprecht: Peter Schermuly - The Search for Reality , Edition Döbele, Ravensburg 2001
  • Martin Mosebach: The painterly painting and Peter Schermuly - The transformation of color into: You should make yourself a picture - about old and new masters , Zu Klampen Verlag 2005
  • KD Hepp: Peter Schermuly in: Medicine and Art, Munich 2005
  • Martin Mosebach: No thing is insignificant. Büchner Prize winner Martin Mosebach about the painter Peter Schermuly who created his realistic picture universe beyond all fashions , Focus No. 45 from November 5, 2007
  • Kürschner's Handbook of Visual Artists, KG Saur Verlag, Munich, Leipzig 2005
  • Martin Mosebach: Schermuly in aviso, magazine for science and art 1/2008, ed. Bavarian State Ministry for Science, Research and Art, pp. 10–15, Munich
  • Martin Mosebach: The red of the apple , Zur Klampen, Springe 2011 ISBN 978-3-86674-158-4

Filmography

  • Peter Schermuly in: A Titian by Rubens - great masters copy great masters, TV film for Radio Bremen 1970. [1]

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Schermuly, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 2007
Place of death Cesenatico , Italy