1 American Way of Life:
Oil on hardboard, 1995, size: 100 x 140 cm
2 KING LEAR/One people:
Oil on canvas, 1990, size: 80 x 100 cm
Rolf Ziert's Commentary on German Reunification. The king is overthrown from the throne. Ziert painted himself in the picture as a protest marchers himself, but on the red banner he again reveals doubts about what is to come to the people: "A united people of consumers".
3 Golf - Gulf War:
oil on canvas, size: 75 x 105 cm, 1991
5 NEW WORL / SHARK; 1994, mixed media on canvas, size: 80 x 100 cm
7 World Police
The two world powers from 1945 to 1989, the United States and the Soviet Union, Ziert has set a memorial to this image that these countries (or their successor states) rather do not want to show in their national galleries. After all, injuries, mutilations and military cemeteries after the battles are less heroic. The winner in wars is only one ...!
8 Who are we?
Oil on canvas, size: 40 x 60 cm
9 Welcome to the SURGERY room:
2009, oil on canvas, size 70 x 100 cm
2009, oil on canvas, size 70 x 100 cm
10 Allegory 1: BATTLEFIELD:
Oil on canvas, size: 60 x 50 cm
Oil on canvas, size: 60 x 50 cm
12 Cry for Yugoslavia:
Oil on canvas, Created in 1995,
Under the impressions of the Yugoslav civil war, in the 1990ies this image was created as a charge against warlike conflicts of any kind.
13 Death on the Gulf; 1994, Oil on canvas, size: 50 x 60 cm
At the wheel of this warplane sits the eternal winner of the war: Death.
14 Chernobyl:
Oil on hardboard, 1986, size: 70 x 140 cm
15 friend - enemy:
Dispersion on hardboard, format 100 x 70 cm
Dispersion on hardboard, format 100 x 70 cm
17 God bless the war:
Oil on canvas, 1991, size: 140 x 170 cm
Oil on canvas, 1991, size: 140 x 170 cm
18 WITCH TRIAL:
Dispersion on canvas, size 25 x 35 cm
19 WITCH SPELL: Oil on canvas, size: 30 x 40 cm
1 American Way of Life
2 King Lear
3 Golf - Gulf War
4 Holy War
5 New World/Shark
6 Refurees leaving the GDR
7 World Police
8 Who are we?
9 Welcome to the Surgery
10 Allegoriy 1
11 Phenix
12 Cry for Yugoslavia
13 Death on the Gulf
14 Cernobyl
15 Friend and Enemy
16 Titanic 2000
17 God bless the War
18 The Witch Trial
19 Which Spell
Painting against War and Violence
Rolf Ziert was 8 years old when Hitler Germany attacked his neighbor Poland and thus World War II started. This time of violence and terror shaped Ziert's life and his artistic work.With the allegorical work on wars and conflicts in the world after 1945 Ziert not only met with enthusiasm. Critics like to tag them as "too graphic" and "cartoons". But that puts Ziert in the best of company. Even the highly esteemed painters Otto Dix and Max Beckmann have long been vilified and denigrated for a long time by conservative and national-minded forces.
Golgata of Women
Against the War
Whenever weapons are used anywhere in the world, Ziert feels compelled to express his skepticism about armed confrontations using brush and color. He likes to expose the so-called "hawks", who, with their martial omnipotence fantasies, are only too happy to send the mostly young soldiers to the battlefields of this world to die and kill.