Lutz Bleidorn
Earthly garden

20. January 2024 — 16. March 2024

In his elaborately layered, subtly coloured paintings, artist Lutz Bleidorn collects and collages scenic and urban impressions as well as events and memories from days long past. Lutz Bleidorn focuses, simplifies and alienates, dissolves into splashes of colour, paints sometimes in a flat, floating style, sometimes in deep, layered spaces, sometimes with the sophistication of collage painting. His work shifts between reason and emotion, construction and intuition, reflecting the fragile balance of modern man.

Bleidorn, Lutz. – „Landmarke”
Bleidorn, Lutz. – „Wilde Landschaft”
Bleidorn, Lutz. – „Winter vor der Stadt”
Bleidorn, Lutz. – „Weihnachtsmorgen”
Bleidorn, Lutz. – „Gelber Morgen 81”
Bleidorn, Lutz. – „Dunkle Gassen”
Bleidorn, Lutz. – „Kirche in der unteren Stadt”
Bleidorn, Lutz. – „Landschaft im Schatten”
Bleidorn, Lutz. – „Der Frühling im Tal”
Bleidorn, Lutz. – „Dezemberpfad”
Bleidorn, Lutz. – „Der helle Tag”
Bleidorn, Lutz. – „Morgenstimmung in den 80ern (Fockbek)”
Bleidorn, Lutz. – „Echohaus”
Bleidorn, Lutz. – „In der Stadt”
Bleidorn, Lutz. – „Der See ist ein Fluss”
Bleidorn, Lutz. – „Schiff im Nebel”
Bleidorn, Lutz. – „Novembergold”
Bleidorn, Lutz. – „Junitag an der Eider”
Bleidorn, Lutz. – „Der Morgen vorm Fenster”
Bleidorn, Lutz. – „In den Bäumen”
Bleidorn, Lutz. – „Haus am Waldrand”
Bleidorn, Lutz. – „Der Herbst II”
Bleidorn, Lutz. – „Besuch aus Amerika”
Bleidorn, Lutz. – „Versuch dein Glück”
Bleidorn, Lutz. – „Wie schön war unsre Geisterbahn”
Bleidorn, Lutz. – „Unterwasser-Flugmaschine”
Bleidorn, Lutz. – „Abends an der Grönsfurth”
Bleidorn, Lutz. – „Danke an die Fichten”
Bleidorn, Lutz. – „Das Vogelhaus”
Bleidorn, Lutz. – „Klinter Weg Richtung Westen”

Lutz Bleidorn

Lutz Bleidorn's artwork is largely inspired by the surroundings of his home town Rendsburg in Schleswig-Holstein. In his paintings, he collects and sorts scenic impressions, striking architecture, but also memories of childhood events and dreams. In doing so, he walks the fine line between reason and emotion, between construction and intuition, reflecting the existential dualism of today's individual. With his unique visual language, Lutz Bleidorn is one of the outstanding artists of his generation.

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Lutz Bleidorn's painting is largely inspired by the surroundings of his hometown of Rendsburg in Schleswig-Holstein. In his paintings, he collects and sorts landscape and urban impressions, but also events and memories from days long past. Lutz Bleidorn's poetic painting treads a fine line between reason and emotion, construction and intuition, thus reflecting the fragile balance of modern man.

Lutz Bleidorn, who studied under Elke Hopfe at the Dresden Art Academy and returned to his old home in Rendsburg just a few years ago, continues the tradition of Dresden painting in the best sense of the word with his subtle painting style and, in particular, his sensitive use of colour. The images, which glow from within, grow in layers that are subtly orchestrated and interwoven in terms of colour. The brushwork alternates between delicate lines, broad strokes of colour and small, dabbing-like spots of light.

Time and again, we encounter the silhouette of the town of Rendsburg and the gentle hilly landscape surrounding it between the Eider River and the Kiel Canal. These places, unspectacular but familiar to the artist since childhood, take on a new form in Bleidorn's paintings, becoming inner images. Photographs, which often serve as a starting point, evoke memories and associations. Thanks to the dialectic between outside and inside, between what is seen and what is internalised, an abstracting process is achieved.

Lutz Bleidorn focuses, simplifies and distorts, dissolves into splashes of colour, paints sometimes in floating planes, sometimes in deep layers, sometimes with the sophistication of collage painting. Figurative references and purely painterly elements are skilfully integrated into an exciting whole.

With his unique visual language, Lutz Bleidorn is now considered one of the outstanding artists of his generation. This is evident in his masterful use of colour and composition, as well as in his wondrous, strikingly beautiful images – surreal places of longing and inner maps that tell of dreams and reality, of the past and the present.

Just as his paintings blend current experiences and memories, the painterly elements often come together: patchy, partly spatulated, with points of light and traces of movement. The result is sometimes more, sometimes less reminiscent of collage. This also includes a playful accent, which Bleidorn expresses not least in his painterly collages.

Lisa Werner-Art
»Collagierte« Malerei und malerische Collagen, in: Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten vom 2. Februar 2024

Lutz Bleidorn Earthly garden

Lutz Bleidorn

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Lutz Bleidorn
Earthly garden