Werner Fohrer

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Where The Streets Have No Name (Streetlife 2018)

Werner Fohrer (* 1947 in Esslingen ) is a German neorealist painter.

Life

Werner Fohrer completed an apprenticeship in the graphic trade from 1964, in which he also worked for several years. He studied from 1970 to 1971 at the State University of Fine Arts in Hamburg and from 1971 to 1976 at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart . During his studies and afterwards he worked as a freelancer in various advertising agencies. From 1980 to 1981 he stayed at the Cité internationale des Arts in Paris with the support of the Baden-Württemberg scholarship . From 1982 to 1984 he received a studio grant from the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation . From 1985 to 1992 he had a studio in Esslingen and Neuffen , since 1992 his studio has been in Plochingen .

HJ Madaus (Approaches, 1988)

Werner Fohrer lives in Esslingen and Plochingen.

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Anonymous place X (2007)
237 Singel Amsterdam ( Streetview, 2017)
Sprinter (2015)
Avenue de l'Opéra, Paris ( Streetview 2014 )

Fohrer's pictures are subjective interpretations of reality. They depict forest landscapes, night or street scenes or scenes from pop and rock music. For the series of street view images, Google Maps images served as the basis, which Werner Fohrer then worked on. There are street scenes from different cities around the world, in which people stroll through the streets or sit in cafes. He blurs or obscures reality by making the faces out of focus and unrecognizable. His pictures do not show direct images, but rather represent something alienated, something symbolic due to the processing. Clothes and objects, on the other hand, are shown in more detail. He adopts the requirements of the personal identification prevented for reasons of data protection and alienates them further in the painting process.

His pictures do not show direct images, but rather represent the reality of alienation through the painterly processing and anonymized representation. With his pictures he wants to express how the flood of events and impressions are only perceived as fleeting moments of the moment.

Leonardo

The influence of American photorealism ( Chuck Close , Don Eddy ) can be felt in his earlier large portraits in the series Approaches . Here, with the airbrush technique and a large number of layers of paint, some of which are opaque and translucent, he achieves smooth and soft color values, but also very detailed fine structures of the hair or the depiction of the skin. For Werner Fohrer, figuratively speaking, this is always an oscillation between calm, identifiable representation and a dissolution of the given realities. This is particularly evident in some later actor portraits. Brad Pitt , Leonardo di Caprio and Sean Penn and John Malkovitch are clearly recognizable, but they are blurred and out of focus in the pictorial representation. Some figures are also painted blurred. So z. B. the representation of the sprinter Usain Bolt thereby a certain dynamic. Werner Fohrer, whose pictures are very often created while listening to contemporary music, also painted rock and pop singers, which he exhibited at an exhibition in the Mannheim Pop Academy in 2018 .

He also usually uses the airbrush technique for his night pictures. The paint is applied with the help of a small spray gun and the artist works his way from the coarse paint application to the finer details by applying the acrylic paint partly covering, partly glazing. In his new pictures of the Streetlife series, which were created after a stay in New York and continue to be created, Fohrer has returned to classic wet-on-wet painting with oil paints.

Exhibitions

Werner Fohrer has done numerous solo and group exhibitions. He had some exhibitions in the Keim Gallery in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt and in the Schlichtenmaier Gallery in Stuttgart. He also exhibited in art galleries in Venice , Manchester , Esslingen and Ulm . He has also exhibited his pictures at various trade fairs.

Solo exhibitions

David Gilmour (2017)
  • 1978: Apostroph Gallery, Stuttgart
  • 1985: Galerie Ventzki, Göppingen
  • 1987: Galerie Zeitlupe, Heidenheim
  • 1989: Musée Faure in Aix les Bains
  • 1993: HCM Art Forum in Frankfurt am Main
  • 1997: New realistic art from the southwest in reality, Schlosshalle Wolfach , Künstlerhaus Galerie Karlsruhe
  • 1998: Mixed Media II , Galerie im Heppächer, Esslingen
  • 2009: Weishaupt TUEGO art gallery, Ulm
  • 2009: Städtische Galerie Filderstadt
  • 2010: New German Romanticism at the Bury Art Museum in Manchester
  • 2012: Leftovers in Schramberg
  • 2015: ART ALARM, Keim Gallery in Stuttgart
  • 2015: Thinking outside the box: The Long Format , Keim Gallery in Stuttgart
  • 2017: STAR Insight Art / STAR COOPERATION in Böblingen
  • 2017: Between sensuality and practicality in Esslingen
  • 2018: Rock Alive , Popakademie Mannheim

Group exhibitions (selection)

Publications

  • Nice prospects: Valentin Vitanov. People, animals, landscapes (text by Werner Fohrer). Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-942743-50-1 .

literature

  • Werner Fohrer, Detlev Friedrich, Fritz Fronius, Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg: Scholarship holders of the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg show their work in Stuttgart, Pforzheim, Esslingen, Süßen, Freiburg, Heidenheim, Balingen, Ravensburg, Offenburg, Schwetzingen . Art Foundation Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart 1983, OCLC 935621766 .
  • Werner Fohrer: Pictures 1979-1987: a selection . Stuttgart 1987, OCLC 601424362 .
  • Hermann-Josef Krug et al .: Podium Kunst Schramberg 1978-2004 . Schramberg 2004, OCLC 315131963 (exhibition catalog).
  • Bury art gallery, museum + archives (ed.): Werner Fohrer: A new German romanticism . Lancashire 2010, ISBN 978-0-9562445-0-5 ( online exhibition catalog).

Web links

Commons : Werner Fohrer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Jürgen Berger: Art in Wendlingen: Street scenes with faceless people. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung. February 12, 2018, accessed July 9, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Bury art gallery, museum + archives (ed.): Werner Fohrer: A new German romanticism . Lancashire 2010, p. 62 .
  3. ↑ a b c Werner Fohrer. Retrieved July 8, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Werner Fohrer: German painter - Singulart. Retrieved July 8, 2019 (de-US).
  5. ^ Frank Rodenhausen: Waiblingen: What was the artist thinking? In: Stuttgarter Zeitung. October 21, 2012, accessed July 9, 2019 .
  6. ^ A b Hans-Martin Schweizer: Werner Fohrer . In: Podium Kunst Schramberg . Schramberg 2004, p. 34 .
  7. ↑ a b ArtFacts: Werner Fohrer | Artist. Retrieved July 8, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Fohrer, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Esslingen