On September 13, 2024, a special exhibition of works by the Dermbach artist WERNER SCHWARZ was opened with a festive vernissage to mark his 100th birthday.
birthday in the Anneliese-Deschauer-Galerie Geisa.
Many visitors attended, including visitors from Dermbach, the painter’s home town, including Mayor Thomas Hugk and local mayor Nancy Hepp.
Werner Schwarz, who after the war trained as a decorative and mural painter, studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and was employed in the public education department in Bad Salzungen, immersed himself ever deeper in painting and art and was happy to pass on his experience and skills to others.
Many people learned from him, whether in painting and drawing circles or through his work in the Association of Visual Artists.
As an active member for many years, he was very well known.
They appear quite different from what was expected and demanded by the state at the time.
Of course, his work includes paintings of the post-war period, the flourishing industries (e.g. “Kalischacht”, “Bildnis des Brigadiers Weidner” from the VEB Wälzkörperwerk Schweina), portraits of Bulgarian people, but also pictures of landscapes and the Rhön mountains.
In 1956, he ventured into self-employment.
Initially very detailed depictions of the “shepherd” in ink and graphically followed later by almost expressive depictions of shepherd portraits.
They literally explode in bold colors and powerful brushstrokes.
Next to them are the depictions of the “Bulgarians”, which appear pensive.
Framed by dark colors, they nevertheless radiate joie de vivre and experience.
Four watercolor paintings radiate calm, serenity and almost sentimental vacation reveries.
Plain, simple, reduced to clear forms, all vibrant in color.
As in impressionist paintings, different times of day show the effect of light on the motif. Sometimes the glass appears yellow in the bright sunshine, sometimes blue framed by the clear sky.
The museum was demolished shortly afterwards.
Here, too, the colors and shapes, as well as the incredibly impasto application of paint, testify to the artist’s great emotionality.
His expression of saying goodbye to a beloved motif.
It hangs in her kitchen.
Painted in her favorite colors, it always reminds her of her father and his love for his homeland.
She also explains why her father’s style had changed so radically.
The disease in his right hand did not stop him from painting.
Instead of fine lines and soft colors, he now used the brush with his left hand, sometimes even his fingers.
“Not all the works in the exhibition are described here – make your own impression of the Dermbach artist Werner Schwarz!”
On September 22 and 29, the gallery will also be open on Sundays from 11 am to 4 pm.
Recommendation: Are you planning a visit to the ANNELIESE DESCHAUER Gallery?
Then simply make an appointment with the Geisa tourist office, tel.
036967 – 690. Text: Antje Neiße Photos: Astrid Weimann-Heim Förderverein Kunst, Kultur und Wissenschaft Geisa e. V.