Biography Gerard Schäperkötter

For Gerard Schäperkötter (1914-2006) is the domain that behind the reality hidden is a rich area, where as a treasure hunt emerged an autonomous painting paints. Nature images like these in the recesses of memory waiting for the painting hand. There are no locations for Gerard Schäperkötter. Nor can one add him in a group or school. Yet he has: from the years after the second world war in his mental and spiritual development, a body of work painted between figuration and abstraction, that ais entirely in our time. A painter paints never alone he paints only. He creates works that are visually and thematically in large consequence its relationship with the world tangible, with a lyrical undertone and in a refined reflectiveness. The language of the form he inflects resourceful in the border area of motive and handwriting. On the authority of individual grammar. He rearranged what he has found, deepened color what he suspects and fills the image with more strength than in everyday life. He considers, phase after phase and at your own discretion and painterly ability, the paintings that matter.