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Reiner Schwarz (born February 28, 1940 in Hirschberg in the Riesengebirge ) is a German painter, lithographer and draftsman. He lives and works in Berlin.

Life and artistic career

After fleeing and expelling from Silesia, Reiner Schwarz spent the rest of his childhood in a village near Hanover, most of the school years in Hanover. In 1960 he moved to Berlin, where he began studying at the University of Fine Arts (now: University of the Arts) with the surrealist Mac Zimmermann .

In 1964 his work was shown for the first time in a solo exhibition in Bremen. The criticism in Bremen attested that he had his own view of things, his own visual language, which was fed by careful observation of the environment. Galerie Brusberg represented the entire work of Reiner Schwarz for over 20 years, documented with the catalog raisonné of the lithographs from 1984. Several major exhibitions, for example at the Kunstverein Mannheim, the Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg (retrospective of the pictures and the lithographs), in the Galerie Brusberg in Hanover and Berlin on Kurfürstendamm followed.

In 1987 there was a groundbreaking work encounter with Rolf Münzner (Geithain) and Peter Schnürpel (Altenburg) in the Kätelhön printing workshop. In 1988, Schwarz began drawing realistically on large-format packing paper from the GDR. The chief restorer of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Prussian Cultural Heritage, judges the quality of this GDR wrapping paper: "They are a natural product, darken easily, but are completely harmless in the conservation sense." Of these wrapping papers that Reiner Schwarz works on to this day, man has disappeared. You experience still lifes, objects of daily use and empty rooms - but “... they are rooms in which people have lived, left their traces and shaped the rooms. In use by people, the objects themselves became individuals; they carry the memory of these people within them. My respect goes to the objects and the people I did not know and who I do not depict, but who gave these objects life. "The art scholar Helmut Börsch-Supan wrote about these drawings:" Reiner Schwarz shows the view of reality from which the person is banned and only what he has done can be seen ... His message is gentle but subversive. It is resistance to the inhuman speed of the machine. The pictures advocate a different approach to time and thus also to life. "

education

Schwarz produced his first lithographs in 1960, the year in which he began studying at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin. From 1961 to 1964 he studied in Mac Zimmermann's painting class. On his study trips to Florence and Venice in 1962, he studied Italian painting, especially Sienese and mannerist painting . In 1964 Schwarz passed his first state examination in art, followed by a study trip to Rome. In 1965 he became a master student . After his 2nd state examination in 1968, he became a freelance painter and graphic artist.

Awards

  • 1972 and 1976 medals at the International Graphic Biennale Frechen
  • 1977 2nd Senefelder Prize for lithography, Offenbach
  • 1979 Sponsorship award for the Silesian Culture Prize of the State of Lower Saxony
  • 1996 Prize of the 1st International Lithography Biennale of the Baltic States, Nidzica

Exhibitions

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So far, Schwarz has had more than 150 solo exhibitions in galleries and art institutes, including:

  • 1973: Institute for Modern Art Nuremberg ; Brusberg Gallery, Hanover; Galerie Ketterer, Munich (with Diehl and Petrick); Phoenix Gallery, San Francisco; Diercks Gallery, Aarhus
  • 1975: Associated American Artists, New York
  • 1976: Kunstverein Mannheim
  • 1981: Kunstverein Bamberg, New Residence; Institute for Foreign Relations, Copenhagen
  • 1982: Aarhus Art Museum; Himmerlands Museum, Aars; Kunstverein Siegen
  • 1983: Galerie Brusberg, Berlin (pictures from ten years and the graphic work)
  • 1984: Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg (retrospective of the pictures and the lithographs); Albrecht Dürer Society , Nuremberg
  • 1987: University of Graphics and Book Art Leipzig
  • 1989: Galerie Brusberg, Berlin (with Heike Ruschmeyer)
  • 1997: Museum Schloss Clemenswerth
  • 1999: Kulturspeicher in Schloss Oldenburg (retrospective of the drawings)
  • 2015/16: Saale-Galerie, Saalfeld

Publications

  • Make a litho. Texts by Reiner Schwarz and Alexander Dückers. Hofheim, Erlangen, Berlin, Lilienthal, Schwarzenacker and Regensburg 1980.
  • Painting 1962–1983. Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie , Regensburg 1984.
  • The look through the mirror. Catalog raisonné of the lithographs 1961 to 1983 (= Brusberg Documents 12). Galerie Brusberg, Berlin and Hanover 1984.
  • with Rolf Münzner and Peter Schnürpel: A work encounter. Gallery Stübler, Hanover 1988.
  • The moment of silence. Works on paper. Publishing house JU Hoffmann, Hamburg 1998.
  • with Reinhard Minkewitz: Gesture & Object (= Göpfersdorfer Kunstblätter 7). E. Reinhold Verlag, Altenburg 2013.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. z. For example, Katharina Albrecht's criticism of the exhibition “Wondrous Fantasies” at the Schnoor Gallery in the features section of the Bremer Nachrichten on October 5, 1964.
  2. ↑ Reiner Schwarz: The look through the mirror. Catalog raisonné of the lithographs 1961 to 1983 (= Brusberg Documents 12). Galerie Brusberg, Berlin and Hanover 1984.
  3. ^ Rolf Münzner, Peter Schnürpel, Reiner Schwarz: A working meeting. Gallery Stübler, Hanover 1988.
  4. ↑ Bodo Buczynski on request from Reiner Schwarz 'at the beginning of this work.
  5. ↑ cit. based on a letter accompanying a catalog from Reiner Schwarz to his collectors and friends, November 2004.
  6. ↑ Helmut Börsch-Supan on August 8, 2003 in his speech on the occasion of the exhibition opening Reiner Schwarz: Pictures, Drawings, Graphics (together with sculptures by Nina Koch) in the Steglitz manor (Wrangelschlößchen), Berlin, August 9–14. September 2003.
  7. ^ Curriculum vitae on the artist's website , as of October 22, 2008.
  8. ↑ Article in the Ostthüringer Zeitung from November 28, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Black, Reiner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, lithographer and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Hirschberg in the Giant Mountains (today Jelenia Góra )