Vita
Rolf Ziert was born in 1931 in Bielefeld-Brackwede and lives here, with the exception of the last year of the war, uninterruptedly. The artist, who completed an apprenticeship in the paternal painting business after the war, saw this craft apprenticeship more as an obligation than as a vocation. So, in addition to the painter's school, he also took private lessons from the painter, Else Gerth, from Danzig.
As a family man Rolf Ziert, however, had to earn a living for his family in his father's company, which he later took over. During the long time in the craft he had little free space for creative self-realization. Only after a serious industrial accident, which led to the business task, slowly began a new creative development for him.He first attend courses at VHS-college, where he was ao with the lecturers Hellmuth Scheunemann (portraits and figurative drawing), Ralph Fillies (nude drawing), Susanne Teupe (nude) and Markus Pollmeier (etchings) renewed and completed his techniques.
Rolf Ziert painted in his youth almost naturalistic. Of these works, there are only a few examples in this Internet retrospective. In what he calls today "provisional" style, he calls his works expressive-realistic, which he uses to vary and experiment with his own experimentation and curiosity, making his imagery easily accessible to most viewers He is deeply influenced by the terrible experiences of the bombings he experienced in Bielefeld and Paderborn in the last year of the war, reminding the world is not as healed as it seems superficially and often shown on pictures.
Vita (English Text)
Rolf Ziert was born in 1931 in Bielefeld-Brackwede and lives here, with the exception of the last year of the war, uninterruptedly. The artist, who completed an apprenticeship in the paternal painting business after the war, saw this craft apprenticeship more as an obligation than as a vocation. So, in addition to the painter's school, he also took private lessons from the painter, Else Gerth, from Danzig.
As a family man Rolf Ziert, however, had to earn a living for his family in his father's company, which he later took over. During the long time in the craft he had little free space for creative self-realization. Only after a serious industrial accident, which led to the business task, slowly began a new creative development for him. He first attended courses at Bielefeld Community College VHS , where he was ao with the lecturers Hellmuth Scheunemann (portraits and figurative drawing), Ralph Fillies (nude drawing), Susanne Teupe (nude) and Markus Pollmeier (etchings) renewed and completed his techniques.
In his youth Rolf Ziert painted almost naturalistic. Of these works, there are only a few examples in this presentation. In what he calls today "provisional" style, he calls his works expressive-realistic, which he uses to vary and experiment with his own experimentation and curiosity, making his imagery easily accessible to most viewers. He is deeply influenced by the terrible experiences of the bombings he in Bielefeld and Paderborn during the last year of Worldwar II, reminding that the world is not as healed as it seems superficially and often shown on pictures.
Atelier-Impressionen
Studio Imressions
Studio Imressions
Ein „Alter Wilder”
Zierts ausdrucksstarken Arbeiten im neo-expressivem Stil stellen immer wieder den Menschen in den Mittelpunkt. Seine Bilder bestechen durch einen kraftvollen Pinselstrich und ausdrucksstarken Farbauftrag. So entstehen beeindruckende Porträts, Figuren, Akte und Karikaturen.
So beschreibt ein Kritiker seine Arbeiten: „Rolf Ziert schaut mit Neugier in die Gesichter der Menschen. Die so entstehenden Porträts haben etwas Entlarvendes, sind ungeschminkt. Sie sind expressiv realistisch. Wenn Rolf Ziert aktuelle Ereignisse so tief berühren, setzt er sich mit Themen der Zeit intensiv gedanklich und malerisch auseinander. Wenn er es für nötig hält, bringt er es plakativ, satirisch auf den Punkt, mit fein eingestreuter Ironie karikierend. Immer steht der Mensch im Mittelpunk seines Sujets.
An "old wild man"
Ziert's expressive works in the neo-expressive style always put people at the center. His pictures impress with a powerful brushstroke and expressive color application. This creates impressive portraits, figures, nudes and caricatures.This is how a critic describes his work: "Rolf Ziert looks with curiosity into the faces of people. The resulting portraits have something revealing, are unvarnished. They are expressively realistic. When Rolf Ziert touches on current events so deeply, he deals with topics of the time intensively mentally and painterly. If he thinks it necessary, he puts it succinctly, satirically to the point, caricatured with fine irony. Man always stands in the center of his subject.