Rainer Söhl
Rainer Söhl (born October 2, 1954 in Hamburg ) is a German designer.
Life
From 1972 to 1975 Söhl attended the technical college for design (area / sculpture) in Bremen and then studied painting and sculpture in Bremen until 1978 with Hartmut Gierke and Karl Heinrich Greune at the college for design and music .
Since 1978 he has been working as a freelance designer and lecturer a . a. for ARD , NDR III, Cartier , Bau + Boden , bautec , WohnData , BMW and Depfa .
Söhl works on public and private commissions and has had exhibitions at home and abroad. Some of his works are owned by museums and collections.
"Reality of Visions"
“In his“ pure painting ”, Rainer Söhl strives for new dimensions of perception. How do we see, how do we experience reality? He directs us to this question. He would like to sensitize our perception.
In this way he brings fragments of reality, a figure, a bird, landscape sections, plants, a sphere into new, sensed or devised multi-layered picture and meaning contexts that he has invented. "Painting is not a paraphrase of photographic reality."
The nudges are often literally strange. So Söhl associates motifs from mythology with cosmological visions, the natural impression of clouds inspires him to the dramatic "futuristic projections". Painting as an artistic process and the sensual pleasure in the “experience of painting” do not lose anything compared to metaphysical reflection.
Rainer Söhl, who knows how to master traditional painting techniques, loves experimenting. He likes to use collages and overpainting. He applies all kinds of materials, sprinkles pigments and colors materials.
In addition to the graphic characterization, the collage principle is often expressed in the composition of the image (screen print inserts, texts, textures, characters, characters). This increases the complexity. "
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| SURNAME | Söhl, Rainer |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German designer and artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 2, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |