Wolfgang Tiemann, Works 1980 - 2000 |
 Extract from the work of Dr. Jürgen Fitchen, director of the Gerhard Marks-Haus in Bremen. |
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Mysterious in appearance, puzzling in presence, and dark in destiny - these are the impressions one has of the humans and landscapes in Tiemann`s works from the beginning to the present. In his early works from the 1980s, they appear as a truly existing and realistic from and nature reminiscent of a modern verism, of the photorealism of the late 1960s, and of the drawing style of the Hamburg artist Horst Janssen (1929-1999). Tieman created paintings of impressive and spectacular size, which, on an area of two-by-three meters, show this characteristic study of a human`s head with its countenance of wrinkles - someone`s existence one perhaps recognizes.
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Other similarly large and broad landscapes likwise show this characteristic paint stroke and refer to symbolic motifs that impart deeper meaning. Among some of his drawings and prints, representations of landscapes can be found in which Tiemann uses art-historical set pieces in order to refer symbolically to contemporary environmental issues significant to Germany in the 1980s. Thus, in one of his pieces, one encounters the figures of Adam and Eve, adaptations from two paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553) from the year 1528. In Tiemann`s piece, Adam and Eve are situated in a forest landscape in which the population of dead trees testifies to the effects of acid rain. The creation myth and the destruction of creation by human hands constitute the subject of this etching...
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