Vital and powerful Bert Düerkop Bert Düerkop (1935-2020) was able to bring was able to bring structures of color to the canvas. A post-expressive gesture dominates with blurred colors that are sometimes dark, sometimes bright. In all their abstraction, these paintings are linked to the subject matter via the titles. The eye constantly follows the broad lines that have been laid over the background like a net until they make it stand out. This is how Düerkop's paintings gain spatiality.
2012
BERT DÜERKOP
untitled, 2012, acrylic on canvas, 120 x 100 cm
BERT DÜERKOP
Beautiful country, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 158 x 106 cm
PAINTING & JOIE DE VIVRE
Karlheinz Nowald wrote about Düerkop: "These pictures testify to a love of painting and life. You only have to follow the flow of the brushstrokes and let yourself be carried along by their current. How they glide from place to place, how they make the entire pictorial field their playing space, shooting from edge to edge, pausing here and there and diverting, swinging deftly around, pausing in between and then starting again."
BERT DÜERKOP
Small forest, 2014, acrylic on canvas, 80 x 60 cm
untitled, 2016, acrylic on canvas, 79 x 59 cm
Born in Bremen, Bert Düerkop studied at the local Academy of Design from 1956 to 1959. After three years in Worpswede, he moved to Berlin and began teaching at the Hochschule der Künste in 1972. In 1976, he joined the Deutscher Künstlerbund, of which he was the second chairman from 1990 to 1992. He lived in Hamburg and Conio/Italy until his death.
BERT DÜERKOP
Sleeping woman, 2012, acrylic on canvas, 100 x 70 cm
Red river I, 2009, acrylic and oil on canvas, 107 x 86 cm
Sack II, 2010, acrylic on canvas, 106 x 66 cm
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BERT DÜERKOP
27 March to 27 April 2024