Water Landscapes – Paintings on Satin

Color is painting’s primary means of expression. Color is light! In “water landscapes,” light does not only shine on the colors, but through the colors. They are permeated with light and intensified. The paintings shine forth into the room, much like the gothic church windows. The light changes over the course of the day, and the colors change with them. In this fashion, art once again melds with nature.

The paintings’ large dimensions intensify the color experience. The portrayals show water as a splashing and undulous element, a powerful something that is both abstract and fleeting. Water has a close relationship with air. The air incorporates it. Air moves it. Wind and storms whip up high waves, and waterfalls waft in the breeze. The light scintillates in the waterdrops. I chose satin as a moving, transparent ground for my portrayals of water landscapes.

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Breaking Wave
screen painting on viscose satin, 420 x 560 cm, 1979
Exhibitions:
Kunstpreis Böttcherstrasse,  Paula-Becker-Modersohn Haus, Bremen, 1979
Barbara Nemitz, Neue Galerie – Ludwig Collection, Aachen, 1979
Barbara Nemitz, Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum, Duisburg 1980
From the Surface to the Space, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin 1985
Ludwig Museum of International Art, NAMOC, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China, 1996
Photo: Rainer Maria Schopp
© Copyright Barbara Nemitz and VG Bildkunst, Bonn

Surf with rock
screen painting on viscose satin, 420 x 700 cm, motif: 210 x 420 cm, 1978
Exhibitions:
Barbara Nemitz, Neue Galerie—Ludwig Collection, Aachen, 1979
Barbara Nemitz, Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum, Duisburg, 1980
Friends - Amis?, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, 1980
Photo: Rainer Maria Schopp
© Barbara Nemitz and VG Bildkunst, Bonn

Surf
screen painting on viscose satin,
420 x 420 cm, 1976
Exhibitions:
Barbara Nemitz—Harzlandschaften und andere Bilder, Kunstverein Wolfenbüttel, 1977
Barbara Nemitz, Neue Galerie—Ludwig Collection, Aachen, 1979
Barbara Nemitz, Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum, Duisburg, 1980
Bicentennial Los Angeles, Gallery Stage One, Los Angeles, USA, 1980
Photo: Rainer Maria Schopp,
© Barbara Nemitz and VG Bildkunst, Bonn

Staubbachfall
studio view, Barbara Nemitz at work
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin 1979
Photo: © Roland Bersdorf

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Breaking Wave
screen painting on viscose satin, 420 x 560 cm, 1979
Exhibitions:
Kunstpreis Böttcherstrasse,  Paula-Becker-Modersohn Haus, Bremen, 1979
Barbara Nemitz, Neue Galerie – Ludwig Collection, Aachen, 1979
Barbara Nemitz, Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum, Duisburg 1980
From the Surface to the Space, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin 1985
Ludwig Museum of International Art, NAMOC, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China, 1996
Photo: Rainer Maria Schopp
© Copyright Barbara Nemitz and VG Bildkunst, Bonn

Surf
screen painting on viscose satin,
420 x 420 cm, 1976
Exhibitions:
Barbara Nemitz—Harzlandschaften und andere Bilder, Kunstverein Wolfenbüttel, 1977
Barbara Nemitz, Neue Galerie—Ludwig Collection, Aachen, 1979
Barbara Nemitz, Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum, Duisburg, 1980
Bicentennial Los Angeles, Gallery Stage One, Los Angeles, USA, 1980
Photo: Rainer Maria Schopp,
© Barbara Nemitz and VG Bildkunst, Bonn

Staubbachfall
screen painting on viscose satin, 830 x 145 cm, 1979
Installation: Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 1979
Exhibitions:
Barbara Nemitz, Neue Galerie—Ludwig Collection, Aachen, 1979
Barbara Nemitz, Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum, Duisburg 1980
Europe Prize of Ostend for Painting, Kultureel Centrum, Ostend, Belgium, 1979
Musée Verviers, Belgium, 1980
Artistic Printing Techniques, Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin 1983
Photo: Barbara Nemitz
© Barbara Nemitz and VG Bildkunst, Bonn

The Rhine Falls of Schaffhausen

screen painting on acetate satin, 420 x 1080 cmm 1980/81
Installation:
Akademie der Künste, Berlin 1981
Exhibitions:
Egal, Hauptsache gut!, Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, 1983
Photo: Rainer Maria Schopp
© Barbara Nemitz and
VG Bildkunst, Bonn

The Rhine Falls of Schaffhausen
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