Bernd Zimmer

Upsilon Gallery is pleased to present Bernd Zimmer: Kristalwelt, a survey of recent works by German artist Bernd Zimmer. This is the artist’s second solo exhibition at Upsilon Gallery, the first of all large-scale paintings on canvas.

In the 70s/80s, Bernd Zimmer was a shoot that grew out of the root of the Abstract Expressionist era, forming his own school of thinking of painting widely known as the “Neue Wilde” or “New Savages”. These were a heterodox coterie of artists who refused to outrightly reject representation art, but entrenched themselves in a new language of abstracted representational art that was dynamically colorful, expressive, and “wild”.

Where many institutional artists like Franz Klein or Clyfford Still absolved themselves from a physical subject matter, Zimmer and his peers became committed to being free to paint the wild landscapes he traversed across the globe. The New Wild Painters considered themselves liberated from the institutional and esoterically intellectual paintings.

Zimmer has exhibited at such renown institutions like the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Museum of Modern Art San Francisco, and the Guggenheim Museum, New York, and his works are part of prestigious collections including Harvard Art Museum/Busch/Reisinger Museum, Camberidge; Modern Art Museum, Vancouver; Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris; Berlinische Galerie, Berlin; Buchheim Museum der Phantasie, Bernried; Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen; Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen; Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus as well as Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich among many more.