HARRY BAUER
PAINTING & MORE
Es ist das Licht, das durch die gotischen Kirchenfenster ins dunkle Innere dringt, die Farben, gebrochen durch die Strahlen der Sonne. Faszination pur. Dieses Spektrum voller Farben hat sich eingegraben in mich. Farben explodieren zu lassen. Farben zuzusehen, wie sie sich den Weg bahnen, wenn Hindernisse wie Leinwand oder Holz oder Strukturen ihren zufälligen Fluss versperren, sie sich sammeln und zu einem Konglomerat mutieren, aus dem es keinen Ausweg gibt. Formlosigkeit und Spontaneität sind es, die mich beeinflussen. Das Unterbewusstsein obsiegt: Informel, Tachismus, Action Painting, Art brut und Lyrische Abstraktion sind die Wegbereiter und Wegbegleiter meiner Malerei, und Antoni Tàpies, Jean Fautrier, Jean Dubuffet, Jackson Pollock, K. O. Götz, Otto Greis, Hans Hartung, Emil Schumacher sind meine Inspiration.
ART ROOMS
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THINGS TO SEE
Welcome to my studio and my gallery: I would like to invite you to immerse yourself in my world of colors and emotions.
"When I visited Harry Bauer's house, which is also a gallery, a museum of himself, I was initially completely surprised by this blaze of color. I was faced with paintings that gave me the impression that a flower meadow had exploded. Showers of flowers in all directions, splinters of color raining down on the eye. The gestural sweep of the palette knife creates dynamism. Interspersed yellow gives the picture a hopeful appearance."
Dr. Stefan Rammer
To those who feel within themselves and discover that it is painting that seduces and entices them to communicate, I say: It doesn't matter what substance, material or tool you use to depict what you hear, perceive and represent within yourself. Take a sheet of paper, take apart a cardboard box, take packaging material, wine skins, gauze, pieces of wood, bark, gravel, bitumen, nails, coal, pastes, leather straps, cloth, whatever you can get your hands on. Make pictures out of them and use them to say what you feel and what you want to say: to yourself and to the world. Explosions of color and streams of color are added and you are exhausted, but satisfied because you have created something that is unique.
