Expressiveness (English Version)

As a child, I always wanted to go to the circus," the Bielefelder said, referring to the large-format, highly expressive oil paintings on the ground floor. Under the pun "Art is Art - Artistry Art" he has captured moments in the circle of people. Acrobats balancing on the tightrope, a lion jumping through a burning tire. Powerful and painted with an energetic brushstroke are these pictures whose dynamics seem to be beyond the bounds.

Again and again Ziert thematized the small and larger quirks of his fellow human beings. Sometimes with bitter irony, but never without a good dose of humor.

With the depiction of the human body as an act, the early humans were already busy in their drawings of the grail. Rolf Ziert is also dedicated to this subject: The predominantly female nudes show bodies in their beauty, vulnerability and transience. Frequently, small ironic additions comment on the scenery.

Rolf Ziert especially likes to paint persons he knows. He comes close to the nature of the depicted man. Therefore, family members or friends do not necessarily have to sit model. Often Ziert also serves a photo to work out the character of the sitter.

The relationship between painter, model and his muse in particular has always been rehearsed by artists. Think of Sylvette Davids, a longtime muse of Picasso, Beckmann and Quappi, in the earlier past Dalí and Amanda Lear or Lagerfeld and Beth Ditto. “Ziert liked to explore the tension between eroticism and the professional distance of the creative and the represented person", a critic wrote.

Rolf Ziert's view of our society with its ever-increasing social injustice is also critical.

Breiten Raum nahmen Rolf Zierts Künstlerkollegen ein,: Während Betrachtende die Porträts von Woldemar Winkler, Alina Miloslawska, Edgar Oberschelp oder Günter Frecksmeier auf sich wirken lassen, halten sie beim „Letter from London - dear Joseph (Beuys)“ abrupt inne. Doch diesen Universalkünstler und auch den Schauspieler Götz George hatte Rolf Ziert, wie er freimütig einräumte, lediglich nach vorhandenen Schwarzweiß-Fotografien in Farbe umgesetzt.

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Almost every painter deals with his own face sooner or later, but mostly earlier. In contrast to the portrait of a model, the painter has to look at himself in the mirror in self-portraiture in order to fathom his self as well as the change of his face in the course of his life.

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The german painter and graphic artist Rolf Ziert

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