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ARTISTS / Art after 1945
Franz Bernhard

1934	born in Neuhäuser, Czechoslovakia
1949	apprenticeship as a carpenter
1959-66	Studied sculpture with Wilhelm Loth and Fritz Klemm at the Karlsruhe Art Academy
1963	Scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation
1971	Scholarship from the funds of the Berlin Art Prize
1972	Move to Jockgrim
1977	Participation in documenta VI
	Hans-Thoma-Prize of the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg
1986	Rhineland-Palatinate Art Prize
1989	Lovis Corinth Prize
1990-92	Member of the Academy of Arts Berlin
1994-2001	First Chairman of the Artists' Association of Baden-Württemberg
1998	Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
2004	Order of Merit of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate
2007	Erich Heckel Prize of the Baden-Württemberg Artists' Association
	Honorary Professorship of the State of Baden-Württemberg, by Minister President Erwin Teufel
2013	died in Jockgrim

	Franz Bernhard was a member of the German Artists' Association

Franz Bernhard's formal inventions are characterized above all by their reduction. The focus is on the human body, which is depicted in a highly abstracted form and usually only in parts. The artist himself formulates his approach as follows: "I make plates, arches, beams out of bodies. I make rods out of arms. I make thin into thick. I leave out a leg if it interferes." Rotations from the axes and tilts lend liveliness and expression to the "bodies" that take up various human postures. Franz Bernhard's drawings provide illuminating insights into the mindset of the artist, who perceives his environment in three dimensions.

B-6-1999, 1999
44,5 × 61,7 cm →

Bust, lying (shown in the foreground), 2004
16 × 54 × 51 cm →

Flat head, maquette ("iron"), 2008
27 × 36 × 18 cm →

Head in box, 2005
45 × 50 × 12 cm →

Moving bust III, 2009
18 × 34 × 36 cm →

Small sign, 2010
33 × 36 × 7,5 cm →

Untitled, 1988
26 × 21 cm →

Untitled, 1995
29,6 × 20,8 cm →

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ARTISTS / Art after 1945Franz Bernhard

ARTISTS / Art after 1945
Franz Bernhard