In the almost five decades since his departure from the former GDR, Dieter Otto Berschinski has created an oeuvre that, despite the remarkable abundance of exhibition participations and solo exhibitions, was always seen only in parts. Sometimes only the painter was presented, more often only the graphic artist. Our retrospective, launched with the vernissage on November 19, 2022, now attempts to comprehensively honor the artist, who trained at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Dresden and at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main (Masters student 1980).
Selected press comments
“… Usually there are only ten or twelve prints, sometimes only a single sheet - prints as unique specimens, isn’t that where the meaning of printing is lost? Not here, here this special art has only reached its peak…”
Christel Heybrock, Mannheimer Morgen, on the occasion of the exhibition at Xylon Museum+Werkstätten Schwetzingen, May 2000
“…Berschinski plays with the colors…. it is time to give this seasoned, classical artist a great forum again and to see how his work has developed further and further towards perfection…”
Helga Gausling in “Die Glocke”, Jan. 25, 2018 on the occasion of the exhibition at the Fritz Winter House in Ahlen, January-April 2018.
“… Dieter Otto Berschinski is the polar star…”
Dr. Friedhelm Häring on the occasion of the exhibition at the Fritz Winter House in Ahlen, January-April 2018. Ahlener Zeitung Jan. 27, 2018.
" … The compositions seem like energetic force fields that know no boundaries and yet never run the risk of losing themselves in the unbounded infinite space. For for all their dynamism and power, they exhibit a clear tectonics in their structure that clearly distinguishes them from the action painting of a Jackson Pollock or informal painting in its purest manifestation…”
Dierk Hartleb on the occasion of the exhibition at the Fritz Winter House in Ahlen, January-April 2018. Ahlener Zeitung 27.1.2018
Dieter Otto Berschinski - O.T. (1994), 100 x 80 cm, Öl auf Leinwand
