Wolfgang G. Bühler

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Wolfgang G. Bühler (born January 26, 1957 ) is a German painter and draftsman . His works have been presented in numerous exhibitions and can be seen in public and private collections at home and abroad. Bühler is particularly concerned with surface structures that correspond to mineralogical, geological and geographical conditions, but do not depict them.

Life

From 1980, Bühler studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg with Günther Voglsamer and Oskar Koller . In 1983 he was appointed master student. In 1986, Bühler graduated with distinction. In 1989 he received the debut award from the Bavarian State Ministry for Science and Art. From 1997 he took on a teaching position at the Werkbund-Werkstatt-Nürnberg. In 1998 he was awarded the Wolfram-von-Eschenbach-Kunstförderpreis of the administrative district of Middle Franconia. In 2010 he received 1st prize at the Nürnberger Nachrichten art award.

Work genesis and materials

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After starting out with large constructivist and expressionist formats and with drawings influenced by calligraphy (until 1985), Bühler devoted himself to non-representational art, in particular to color surface painting, and from the mid-1980s to color as a surface material, his real theme. First, small-format monotypes are created. Acrylic / pigment paintings follow on larger canvases; the artist is now already turning to three-dimensional surface representation. Color and pigment accumulations occur in several layers; Granular structures and pigment densities are created into first surface landscapes by scratching and working with spatulas and screwdrivers, also by applying canvas. Color and light reflections in geometric frame shapes surprise with new ways of perceiving supposedly monochrome staging of the material color (1992). Bühler's artistic path now leads to relief-like surface designs in acrylic / pigment applications. In terms of color, it moves in earthy, rock and erosion-shaped, rather restrained, but always nuanced tones. Fine gradations are also achieved through the refraction of light on the plastic surfaces. Rusty metal, rock and stone are usually used as the abbreviations used to describe Bühler's works. In addition, predominantly light watercolor landscapes on hand-made paper are created through washouts ("Encounter" 1997), a technique that proved to be pioneering when Bühler developed an allergy to the color pigments he had previously used as the main design element. The mixed techniques that are now emerging on copperplate printing paper are further developed by folding, creasing and re-smoothing the surface of the image carrier (“Lost Discoveries” 1999). Several layers of colored glaze are applied and combine with these structures to form multi-layered colored surfaces that are reminiscent of mineral or biomorphic natural features such as bark, mossy stones, sand and stone surfaces, or how the observation of planets and celestial bodies from great heights looks like ("Mondausbrbruch" 2001, "Erdenleben" 2002). In the following, Bühler continues his non-representational glazing technique, creating works in which thin acrylic paint applications are processed further with the help of polyethylene film. The film is pressed onto the layers of paint, creased into it, any air bubbles are shifted or not; The film dries slightly on the glazes before removing it again. Up to 18 glazes on top of each other result in organic-looking colored surfaces of astonishing depth. Consistently on his path, Bühler nevertheless easily crosses the boundaries of the representational by producing mountain landscapes from 2007/2008: “Color and structure are visualized as a mountain” (Bühler). Half unconsciously he drew a horizon line through one of his surface landscapes, the series "silberhelldunkelweit" (2007) and "graulanderdenhoch" (2010, one work from this series was awarded the Nürnberger Nachrichten art prize, 1st place, among others) were created. They are not to be understood as depictions of real landscapes. The landscapes are to be understood as mere painting, which offer microstructures and color gradients to the perception. Bühler himself on this in 2010: "The picture itself is a parallel landscape to the world, and not its depiction". In addition to large formats in acrylic glaze technique on canvas, watercolors and ink works are created on this topic, later also small panel paintings in oil (forcella I and II, from 2011). From 2015 onwards, a contrary tendency can be observed in Bühler's create: the landscapes disappear behind fog (Nebbilo, 2015) or are quasi zoomed in in favor of the structural representation, so that the return to color surface painting is almost complete, with the exception of a few image cuts (Alta via, 2017) . Ink works on paper have recently been created.

The enthusiastic mountaineer Bühler primarily observes colors in the mountains and is inspired by barren, rugged and eroded, almost hostile surfaces. However, he describes himself as a studio painter; Bühler only records his experience of nature in language, preferably in the Dolomites, in order to convert it into color material in the studio, not to imitate it mimetically.

For Bühler, the inspiration and eponymous impulse of the mostly serial works comes from the experience of nature as well as from ethnic literature or modern word art, which puts word sound above semiotic meaning. This is how the series “Balmung” (1988) and “Tronje / Hagen I and II” came into being, which in its formal language approximates the descriptions of Siegfried's sword in the Nibelungs. These large-scale, only at first glance monochrome pictures can be seen as the artist's public breakthrough. The “Table pieces from the rose garden” (1993 ff.) Are based on the Tyrolean legends of “King Laurin's rose garden”; Here the almost three-dimensional surface structure allows associations with mountain landscapes, scree, rock walls or erosion-shaped mountain slopes, but the subject of the picture lags behind the independence of the paint applied over the entire surface in an abstract manner on canvas. The accurate capturing of multi-layered mood representations, which word compositions by the poet Friderike Mayröcker make possible, inspired Bühler to give his works on paper from 2007 to their color composition and intentions appropriate titles: "silberhelldunkelweit" (2007), "graulanderdenhoch" (2009) and others. a. (see catalog raisonné). In the following, the title and series name are reduced to individual, association-promoting words, mostly from the Italian language, which approximate the autonomous pictorial realities of imaginary landscapes “forcella I and II” (from 2011), “Alta via” (2017).

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • 2014: City landscapes-landscape picture, together with G. Salzmann, Galerie Rieder Munich
  • 2012: forcella II , Städt. Gallery, Schwabach
  • 2011: graulanderdenhoch , MuseumOttoSchäfer, Schweinfurt-Kunstkontor Westnerwacht, Regensburg-Galerie13, Freising
  • 2011: Höher-Weiter , Galerie Rieder, Munich
  • 2011: forcella , Galerie Schütte, Essen
  • 2010: graulanderdenhoch , Galerie Lutz, Nuremberg
  • 2010: earth gray fill up blue , total Birgit Bossert, S Gallery, Nördlingen.
  • 2009: sky gray shadow blue , Art Museum Bayreuth
  • 2008: Horizont , Kunstkontor Westnerwacht, Regensburg
  • 2007: Landschaft-silberhelldunkelweit , Galerie Rieder, Munich
  • 2005: Panorama , Galerie13, Freising-Kunstkontor Westnerwacht, Regensburg-Galerie Neuendorf, Memmingen
  • 2003: Liebe Erde , together with W.Seierl, Galerie Rieder, Munich
  • 2002: Erdenleben , Kunstkontor Westnerwacht, Regensburg
  • 1999: Lost Discoveries , Marianne Meyer Gallery, Bayreuth-Galerie Schütte, Essen-SW Galerie, in collaboration with the City Collections, Schweinfurt
  • 1998: Land Papers , Wolfram von Eschenbach Museum
  • 1996: In the meantime , Galerie Schütte, Essen-Galerie Neuendorf, Memmingen-Galerie Rieder, Munich
  • 1995: New works , Galerie Schütte, Essen-Galerie Thurnhof & Edition, Horn (A)
  • 1994: Table pieces from the rose garden , Städt. Collections, Schweinfurt
  • 1994: Image locations , Marianne Meyer Gallery, Bayreuth-Galerie Pospieszcyk, Regensburg
  • 1993: Table pieces from the rose garden , Albrecht Dürer House, Nuremberg
  • 1992: Pictures and signs , Galerie Schütte, Essen
  • 1991: Pictures and signs , City Museum, Nuremberg Gallery Pospieszcyk, Regensburg
  • 1991: New works , Stadtgalerie, Ahlen (NRW)
  • 1989: Kohlenhof Aesthetic Transformations, Nuremberg
  • 1985: Galerie Neuendorf, Memmingen

Participation in exhibitions

  • 2017: Over all mountains , Galerie Prisma, Bozen / Bolzano (I)
  • 2017: Hydrophil , Galerie Schmidt and Schütte, Cologne
  • 2013: Art Machine , art room Strictly aces, Nuremberg
  • 2012: graulanderdenhoch , MessnerMountainMuseeum, Bruneck / Brunico (I)
  • 2012: Color-Space-Concept , Galerie Schütte, Essen
  • 2010: Triennale for contemporary art , Kunsthalle, Schweinfurt
  • 2009: Art fair ARTcologne, artKarlsruhe , with Galerie Rieder
  • 2009: Abstract pure , Art Museum, Erlangen
  • 2009: In the sign of gold , Schwabach
  • 2008: ARTcologne, artKarlsruhe, Viennafair, Munich Art Fair , with Galerie Rieder
  • 2007: Pure landscape , Art Museum, Erlangen
  • 2004: Interferences , together with H. Arnold a. Rainer Thomas, Art Museum, Erlangen
  • 2002: Positions and Tendencies , Kunsthalle, Nuremberg
  • 2001: Art / Space / Franconia , Kunsthaus, Nuremberg
  • 2000: NN Art Prize , Germanisches National Museum, Nuremberg
  • 2000: Line-Form-Surface , together with H. Kobayashi and W. Seierl, Galerie Rieder, Munich
  • 2000: In dialogue: Justice with art and building , Higher Regional Court, Bamberg
  • 1998: Bavarian Art of Our Days , Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava
  • 1998: Stadthalle Memmingen, together with K. Schneider a. P. Schwenk, Neuendorf Gallery, Memmingen
  • 1997: Simultaneously , together with H. Lassen and Birgit Bossert, Kunsthaus, Nuremberg
  • 1996: Four and Six , Galerie Schütte, Essen
  • 1995: Mosty , Contemporary Art Gallery-Manes, Prague
  • 1995: Color , Galerie Schütte, Essen
  • 1995: Spectrum , Bernd Dürr Gallery, Nuremberg
  • 1994: With your back to the wall , Galerie Schütte, Essen
  • 1994: art multiple , Messe Düsseldorf, Galerie Schütte
  • 1993: Painting and sculpture , together with Th.Barnstein and D.Schoen, Wessenberghaus, Kunstverein Konstanz
  • 1993: art mutiple , Messe Düsseldorf, Gallery & Edition Bode, Nuremberg
  • 1992: Flags for Jazz East-West , Meistersingerhalle, Nuremberg
  • 1992: Diptychs and two-part works , Galerie Schütte, Essen
  • 1991: The essence of beauty , Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo
  • 1990: 12 artists , opening exhibition Galerie Schütte, Essen
  • 1989: Museum gallery Ar / ge Kunst, Bozen / Bolzano
  • 1988: Bavarian Art of Our Days , Akhenaten Museum Cairo, Museum of Fine Arts Alexandria

Publications

  • graulanderdenhoch, 2011, text: Dr. Anna Scherbaum, Prof. Dr. Jens Kulenkampff, publisher: Galerie Neuendorf, Memmingen - Galerie13, Freising - Galerie Rieder, Munich, Kunstkontor Westnerwacht, Regensburg - Galerie Schütte, Essen
  • Landscape - silver light dark wide, 2007, text: Dr. Jürgen Sandweg, Ed. Galerie Rieder, Munich
  • Collections, 2003, Text: Dr. Eva Caspers, Petra Weigle, Botond, Nuremberg, ISBN 3-00-016107-4
  • Lost discoveries, 1999, text: Andrea Brandl MA Hrsg .: Galerie Schütte, Essen
  • Meanwhile, 1996, Text: Pia M. Grüber MA, Erich Spiess MA, Ed .: Galerie Schütte Essen
  • Table pieces from the rose garden, 1993, text: Mathias Mende, Dr. Erich Schneider. Ed .: Municipal Collections, Schweinfurt - Städt. Museums, Nuremberg, ISBN 3-9802859-2-8
  • Pictures and drawings, 1989, text: Prof. G. Voglsamer, Dr. Eva Caspers, Dr. Hans Friedrich, Ed .: Bay. State Ministry of Science and Art

Purchases / collections

  • Artothek, Nuremberg
  • Artothek, Oldenburg
  • Bavarian State Painting Collections, Munich
  • Bayerische Vereinsbank, Nuremberg
  • District Hospital, Bayreuth
  • BMW Technik GmbH, Munich
  • Kreissparkasse, Nuremberg
  • Art Museum, Erlangen
  • Landbauamt, Bamberg
  • District Court, Freiburg
  • Messner Mountain Museums, Brunico / Bruneck
  • Nürnberger Hypothekenbank, Nuremberg
  • Higher Regional Court, Bamberg
  • Middle Franconia District Collection, Ansbach
  • City of Bayreuth
  • State University of Applied Sciences, Nuremberg
  • Stadtsparkasse, Nuremberg
  • City history museums, Schwaz (A)
  • Municipal collections, Schweinfurt
  • Municipal museums, Nuremberg
  • Sparkasse, Essen

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personal data
SURNAME Bühler, Wolfgang G.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1957