Current Exhibition
GERMAN LANDSCAPE - PRESS RELEASE
Since 2015 Jan Schüler reflects in his paintings the social and political circumstances in which he grew up. For him, this was first and foremost a confrontation with the National Socialism in Germany between 1933 and 1945. In 2016 he painted a series of prisoners of the extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, "Schwarze Blumen" ("Black Flowers"), based on photos taken by the camp photographer Wilhelm Brasse. More paintings in this series are the diptych "Deutsches Stillleben" ("German Still Life"), tin cans of the cyanide-based poison gas Zyklon B, and the tripych "Herbstabend in Birkenau" ("Autumn Evening in Birkenau") which shows railway tracks and a fright wagon in the extermination camp.
In the series "Deutsche Landschaft" ("German Landscape"), arising since 2017, Schüler finds his motives in cities like Dresden and Frankfurt, both centers of German romanticism, in Weimar, where the first German repulic was founded, in Düsseldorf or Berlin, focussing on historical dates and central places in history. With "Berlin" arises a series representing historical events like the collapse of the Third Reich, the division of the former capital, the building of the wall and scenes of reunification in their visual efect on the collective memory. Aside from that the series "Deutsche Landschaft" includes paintings of concentration camp memorials like Buchenwald, Flossenbürg or Bergen-Belsen.
Characteristic for Schülers precise paintings are the smooth surfaces, the demarcated shapes and color areas. In his city- and landscapes the painter avoids unnecessary details. Neither persons nor buildings, fences, trees or clouds are presented naturalistically but are consistently stylized. It is up to the viewer whether he gets involved in abysses or the shallows behind the perfect surfaces, or lets the beauty work its magic on him. In the double-facedness beauty, delicately hinted at fragility and seemingly seamless aesthetics lies the charm of the pictures.
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