If an artist looks at his work at a distance, he may say: I succeeded in doing the picture well. Or he is critical: I have to go there again. Dietmar Deiwick said: "I can't even remember having painted it."
Little surprising - the distance was enormous, both in terms of time and spatial: Dietmar Deiwick , a trained color lithograph and digital printer , saw two works from his early phase, painted 45 years ago. In Nepal. The Berliner had stopped in a barren artist house in Kathmandu. He stayed there for five months and when he returned to Germany, he left four pictures in a small gallery on site.
Now, on his 70th birthday, his children organized an exhibition - it was the first of his life - and found two of the four missing works and brought to Berlin. "I often have no idea at the beginning what my pictures will look like," Deiwick describes his approach. "I let myself be surprised." He visualizes the respective imagination and the moment.
So then, 45 years ago: a fantasy landscape, at least in parts. At the back mountains, a landslide at the front, a dark blue organic wall or border on the right - next to it a healer world with a built -in on a lake. The future of the environment, she falls in layers, it becomes closely with a wall that you can feel in the back.
The work is called "The Blue Curtain" It is painted in oil, but not varnish. "The colors were stronger at the time, even darker," Deiwick recalls. He now wanted to restore the old strength, clean the work - and finally varnish. Bring the work from back then.
"The blue curtain" (oil), left in Kathmandu 45 years ago, now from the end of the world: the colors have suffered over time, but criticism of the progressive environmental destruction is timeless.
The pictures of Deiwick commute between the landscape and urbanity - here the work "Großstadt" (acrylic).
"Camping 3000" (acrylic): Often it is maritime landscapes that Deiwick created - many were created on the Baltic Sea. The pictures were not available for sale.
Dietmar Deiwick, surprised: The signature on his works and the name of the gallery were the only clues for the search in Nepal. The artist himself could no longer have described the pictures in detail after 45 years.
About the artist
Dietmar Deiwick was born in Naila/Upper Franconia in 1947. He grew up in Berlin, where it has kept him to this day. After an apprenticeship as a color lithograph in Berlin-Kreuzberg, he went on study trips to India, Tanzania, Nepal and Afghanistan from 1970 to 1973.
Back in Germany, he works as a technical lithograph in composing . He married in 1975 and gets two children to whom he passes on his artistic streak. He has been working with color and graphics all his life, and digital since the 1990s; He gives computer courses. He has been retired for several years and has been able to devote himself to painting again since then.
Owner and Managing Director of Kunstplaza. Journalist, editor, and passionate blogger in the field of art, design, and creativity since 2011. Successful completion of a degree in web design as part of a university study (2008). Further development of creativity techniques through courses in free drawing, expressive painting, and theatre/acting. Profound knowledge of the art market through years of journalistic research and numerous collaborations with actors/institutions from art and culture.
