"The artist drew something positive from the bad situation." The creative examination of social, human and political issues has taken the place of a "bourgeois life".
A change is currently taking place in Rolf Ziert's oeuvre. For example, he gave the large-format painting that he is currently painting the working title "split muse": "I go from expressive realism to abstraction. That's a very interesting thing for me." Already in the next exhibitions in the Bielefeld district court or in the historic hall of the Ravensberger Spinnerei, the experts will be able to get an idea of how Rolf ziert has developed further.
However, he will always remain one, a person who rejects the loud, the superficial and the violence. Who does not like to talk about himself, but prefers to let his pictures talk.
(Neue Westfälische Nespaper of September 3rdIn
His paintings, Ziert often deals with the relationship between the sexes. But wars, such as the recent battles in the Gulf, also occupy him permanently. Here he then takes a clear position. "It was only since 1985 that Ziert has been using the talent that stood out in his work at the age of 17," emphasizes Ueckermann. From this early creative period, for example, a portrait of the grandfather can be seen in the pavilion..
"It is particularly remarkable," says the young woman, "that Ziert has acquired the necessary techniques himself – through courses or copying from colleagues."
"It is particularly remarkable," says the young woman, "that Ziert has acquired the necessary techniques himself – through courses or copying from colleagues."
(Neue Westfälische Newspaper of 4th of June1991)
Paintings by Rolf Ziert in the Bünde ZAK Center: Expressive Images of People
by Regina Doblies (Text) and Oliver Schwabe (Photos)
"I am an old man and a young painter," says Rolf Ziert, smiling in his humble, amiable way. In fact, although he drew caricatures as a teenager, he found his way to art only late. All the more remarkable is the quality and expressiveness of his works, which can be seen at bünder ZAK until 3 December. Rolf Ziert's subject gave the exhibition its name: "Images of Man".
"As a child, I always wanted to go to the circus," the Bielefeld native points to the large-format, highly expressive oil paintings on the ground floor. Under the pun "Art is art – artist art" he has captured moments in the ring circle. Acrobats balance on the tightrope, a lion jumps through a burning tire. Powerful and painted with energetic brushstroke are these pictures, whose dynamics almost seem to go beyond the frame.
An experience at carnival time inspired Rolf Ziert to the "Gogo-Girls". Actually, he had wanted to visit the Bernhard Heisig exhibition in Bonn, but closed it in the museum due to the great days. Without further ado, he let himself be drawn into the carnival hustle and bustle – and was alienated. "On stage, the girls bobbed while the men made music. Is this emancipation?" he asks, who inserts himself as a critical observer at the bottom of the picture.Rolf Ziert is not a man who likes to hear himself talk – least of all about his own person. However, his pictures tell a lot about man. Adorned, who was born in 1931, learned the craft of painting and worked as a restorer and monument preservationist. He calls one of the impressive works "Torn Muse".
"As a child, I always wanted to go to the circus," the Bielefeld native points to the large-format, highly expressive oil paintings on the ground floor. Under the pun "Art is art – artist art" he has captured moments in the ring circle. Acrobats balance on the tightrope, a lion jumps through a burning tire. Powerful and painted with energetic brushstroke are these pictures, whose dynamics almost seem to go beyond the frame.
An experience at carnival time inspired Rolf Ziert to the "Gogo-Girls". Actually, he had wanted to visit the Bernhard Heisig exhibition in Bonn, but closed it in the museum due to the great days. Without further ado, he let himself be drawn into the carnival hustle and bustle – and was alienated. "On stage, the girls bobbed while the men made music. Is this emancipation?" he asks, who inserts himself as a critical observer at the bottom of the picture.Rolf Ziert is not a man who likes to hear himself talk – least of all about his own person. However, his pictures tell a lot about man. Adorned, who was born in 1931, learned the craft of painting and worked as a restorer and monument preservationist. He calls one of the impressive works "Torn Muse".
"Like the figure in the middle, I also feel torn between reality and abstraction," he explains and adds full of doubt: "sometimes I wonder whether I am at all up to date with my representational pictures". Ornamental concerns are unjustified. In his works, expressiveness triumphs over pure depiction, they testify to great sensitivity.
His portraits are not testimonies of external appearance, but mirrors of the soul: full of wisdom and sensitivity, the white-haired character head of the Gütersloh painter Woldemar Winkler, ernst, but not desperately the expression on the face of Matthias Ziert, the son who fell seriously ill a few years ago. The exhibition "Images of Man" will be opened this Sunday at 17:00 in the ZAK Centre, Auf dem Rott 8 in Bünde.
The introduction will be given by Sonja Ziemann-Heitemper. Lutz Verhülsdonk plays the piano.
His portraits are not testimonies of external appearance, but mirrors of the soul: full of wisdom and sensitivity, the white-haired character head of the Gütersloh painter Woldemar Winkler, ernst, but not desperately the expression on the face of Matthias Ziert, the son who fell seriously ill a few years ago. The exhibition "Images of Man" will be opened this Sunday at 17:00 in the ZAK Centre, Auf dem Rott 8 in Bünde.
The introduction will be given by Sonja Ziemann-Heitemper. Lutz Verhülsdonk plays the piano.
(Westfalenblatt Newspaper, November,4th,1995)
Topicality and Tradition
By Georg Löwen (text and photos)
[Brackwede] The exhibition by Jutta Koch (Tempera on canvas), Helmut Kuhlmann (Refitto Assablagen) and Rolf Ziert (oil on canvas) presents three very different styles three particularly contrasting rarely of art. In the Brackweder Heimathaus.
[Brackwede] The exhibition by Jutta Koch (Tempera on canvas), Helmut Kuhlmann (Refitto Assablagen) and Rolf Ziert (oil on canvas) presents three very different styles three particularly contrasting rarely of art. In the Brackweder Heimathaus.
[...] Rolf Ziert talks about himself: "I titled my earlier exhibition "from realism to abstraction". I temporarily left this path to do this exhibition". The events and problems of today's world, such as right-wing radicalism and extreme nationalism, have moved the artist to this way of working.
The events and problems of today's world, such as right-wing radicalism and extreme nationalism, have moved the artist to this way of working. In his works, which now can be seen in "Brackwede Heimatshaus", the topicality is expressed in sharp form, as for example in the series "Disenchantment with Politics". But the history of local craftsmanship also occupies an interesting place in the art of Rolf Ziert. The painting "Glasmacher" is reminiscent of an old commercial Brackwede tradition, which extends into the thirties of this century. [...]
The events and problems of today's world, such as right-wing radicalism and extreme nationalism, have moved the artist to this way of working. In his works, which now can be seen in "Brackwede Heimatshaus", the topicality is expressed in sharp form, as for example in the series "Disenchantment with Politics". But the history of local craftsmanship also occupies an interesting place in the art of Rolf Ziert. The painting "Glasmacher" is reminiscent of an old commercial Brackwede tradition, which extends into the thirties of this century. [...]
(Westfalenblatt Newspaper from 9th March1994)
Motor: Curiosity – Rolf Ziert shows "Images of Man" in "Fachwerk"
[Bad Salzuflen-Schöttmar] (beo)
"Human Images" by the Bielefeld painter Rolf Ziert is shown by the artists' association "das Fachwerk" in its domicile. The 38 works in the exhibition present people in different techniques – oil on canvas or nettle, pastel and pencil – and often in a special situation in life, and they range from portraits to milieu descriptions to caricatures.
Rolf Zierts opens up the artist's view of his fellow human beings, and this view is unmistakably characterized by undisguised curiosity.
Rolf Zierts opens up the artist's view of his fellow human beings, and this view is unmistakably characterized by undisguised curiosity.
Although this curiosity does not shy away from even the most intimate revelations, as the "Macho at the Pedicure" shows, on the other hand it is not afraid to make one's own face accessible, as the numerous self-portraits in oil, charcoal, pastel or pencil prove.
In many cases, the people are depicted in extreme situations: such as the artists on the tightrope, drug addicts with fixed cutlery, victims of the nuclear catastrophe of Chernobyl or the bony fighter pilot whose on-board weapon spews the "death in the Gulf". Rolf Ziert's artist colleagues occupy a great deal of space, and while the viewer enjoys portraits of Woldemar Winkler, Alina Miloslawska, Edgar Oberschelp or Günter Frecksmeier, he pauses abruptly at the "Joseph Beuys". But him and television series actor Götz George Rolf Ziert had only put in color, as he freely admits, according to existing black-and-white photographs.
(Lippische Landeszeitung, Newspaper from February, 2nd.2005)
(Lippische Landeszeitung, Newspaper from February, 2nd.2005)
