Bertram Bartl

Painting is a sensual event for me. The mixing of the pigments, the movement of the brush, the colour applied layer by layer - these are parts of the painting process that I want to make visible in the picture.

I studied at the Karlsruhe Art Academy with Prof. Per Kirkeby, one of the most important colourists, an expert in the use of colour. So I was able to find out early on what possibilities of expression painting could offer me. Soon figurative elements appeared in my paintings, above all stylised faces. I then deformed these with the help of special computer programmes. In this way, I created drawings in the 90s, which I then transferred back into painting with a clear pixel structure. This is how a 10-part, large-format Totentanz cycle came into being as my main work.

The noughties brought a return to the beginnings of my studies. A new beginning under the working title Neoarchaic was to become a commitment to "pure" painting in predominantly earth colours.
In the first phase of this period, heads were the central motif. In the second phase of Neoarchaic, I was mainly concerned with bodies, especially female ones, starting from simple forms.
In the third phase, starting in 2016, I abandoned the reduced colour and the ...

1978-1981 Studium Kunsterziehung und Deutsch an der PH Ludwigsburg
1981-1987 Studium der Malerei an der Kunstakademie Karlsruhe bei Per Kirkeby
1985-2000 Lehrauftrag Universität Ulm, Studium Generale
2000-2002 Lehrauftrag Hochschule Ulm, Digital Media

Solo Exhibitions

1984 Galerie Ehinger-Schwarz, Ulm
1985 Obere Stube, Ulm
1988 Galerie im Kornhauskeller, Ulm
1992 Stadthaus Jena
2001 Künstlerhaus Ulm
2002 Museum der Stadt Füssen
2004 MDK, Ulm
2005 Galerie W, Ulm
2005 Kunst in der alten Werkhalle, Waldshut
2006 Galerie im Kornhauskeller, Ulm
2007 Galerie Holm, Ulm
2007 Scan plus, Ulm
2009 Museum des Landkreises Neu-Ulm, Oberfahlheim
2011 Kunst im Bau, Ulm
2013 Helferhaus Galerie, Langenau
2014 Galerie im Kornhauskeller, Ulm zusammen mit Normann Seibold
2015 Galerie auf der Insel, Thalfingen
2015 Kunstraum Zehntscheuer, Münsingen
2016 Kulturforum Isny, Köpfe und Körper
2019 Scan-Plus Acercamiento a México
2019 Druckhaus Waiblingen, zusammen mit Gerald Dufey
Bertram Bartl – Gruppenausstellungen
1985/1988/1991/1994 Triennale Ulmer Kunst, Ulmer Museum
1986 Ulmer Künstler in der Landesvertretung Baden-Württemberg, Bonn 1987
Giovani Artisti di Ulm, Ravenna
1992/1993/2002-2010 Kunstverein Neu-Ulm
2002 Galerie Schloss Mochental, „Köpfe und Portraits“
2005 Art Bodensee, Fischerplatzgalerie Ulm
2006 Stipendiaten der Ulmer Kunststiftung, Kloster Bad Schussenried 2007 Art
Karlsruhe, Galerie Holm
2009 MEWO-Kunsthalle Memmingen, „Everybody – Tanz mit dem Totenta...