Eschara Atelier

I am Eschara.

Born in 1949.

Upon completing my full-time education and commercial training, I initially worked as an authorised signatory in the electronics industry. I first began taking painting lessons in 1983 – alongside my job to begin with – at the Peter Valentiner summer academy in Trier, among other institutions.

In 1990 and 1991, I studied painting at the Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences in Alfter/Bonn with Wilfried Ogilvie, whose zest for the social power of art had a vast impact on me. It was here that I had a wonderful encounter with Boris Birger, who showed an interest in my work.

Both painting and drawing became an innate necessity for me during times of crisis in my life, which forced a pause and reflection on what is important in life upon me, and in 1993, I embarked on study trips to Norway, Spain/Lanzarote, the Netherlands, France, Portugal, and Austria. During these trips, I was able to gather valuable experience both in studio communities (for instance in the Netherlands with 1975 award-winning sculptor for Germany at the Biennale in Florence, Henriette Riederer) and during individual encounters (Egon von der Wehl in Portugal, for example).

For over 20 years now, I have reflected on
the face of humankind – Portraits –
the face of Earth – Nature –
and, in more recent years, on cosmic forms of expression.

In 2001, I selected the square as my format to “create something new”, the “Swirl of Colourful Light”.

The square has fascinated countless artists since Malevich, and inspired a growing number of new works. Together with the circle, it counts among the geometric forms, which seem to symbolise perfection to us. In saying this, it is – unlike the auratic circle or nervous triangle – at the same time dynamic like no other. It can be balanced on a corner in a similar style to Max Bill, or left to pulsate, as in Ad Reinhardt’s work. One can gain inspiration, be seduced, unsettled or also calmed again by it. The square exists within its own gracious quadratic universe that creates space for a virtually incorporeal perception process, a world view -
“I can now be.”

2010 - 2010 Real Club Náutico de Arrecife
TRAVEL DESTINATION - TRAVEL WITH A DESTINATION October 22 - November 22, 2010
2009 - “Künstler sehen Lanzarote” [“Artists see Lanzarote”] - www.lanzarote37.net
2008 - Bad Kreuznach city gallery (P)
2007 - Art exhibition in Kirn (GE) - Symposium der Landschaft [Symposium of the scenery]
2006 - Symposium (GE) - “Baumholder 850 Jahre” [“850 years of Baumholder”]
2005 - Lebensspirale Zeitraum Raumzeit [Life Spirals Time Space - Space Time] (GE)
Room installation, Thormaehlen House in Bad Kreuznach
2004 - Room installation (P) - “Die Lichtbrücke” [“The Light Bridge”]
2003 - Spendlingen/Rheinhessen town hall (GE) - ‘25 Künstler für den Frieden’
[‘25 artists for peace’]
2002 - France (GE) - 1952-2002 Salon du Cinquantenaire de Bourg-en-Bress
2001 - Palmela/Portugal (SE) - “Quinta Novesia”
2000 - Oslo (SE) - “Villa 27”
1999 - Kalender Licht und Form [Calendar Light and Form] (P) - Frauenmuseum Bonn
1998 - Lanzarote/Spain (GE) - Centro de Terapia Antroposófica
1997 - Holland (GE) - Hernen castle
1996 - “Klavimaginator 2” (P)
Collaborative artwork with composer Ulf Behrendt, Hamburg
1995 - Oslo (SE) - “Zeitgalerie Madson” [“Madson Time Gallery”] Oslo
1991 - Bonn/Alfter (SE) - Alf...