Dorothea Bido intends to create impulses with her art, on the one hand for the colors themselves, on the other hand for the viewer, who is stimulated to give in to the color impulses. What gives volume to the colors is the layering of the color fields, which do without the black of an outline, sometimes using a white to brighten up, to create this flashing and sinking. She studied etching, lithography, free painting and graphic arts at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. She has been exhibiting since 1979 and has been a member of XYLON Germany since 1996.
Selected press comments
“… Dorothea Bido’s colors are the colors of nature, the green of vegetation, the yellow of light, the blue of water and sky. She acts with these colors and intermediate tones and the forms, allows the effect of the colors, for example the blue that gives depth, but also sets it against others and achieves, for example, that the blue seems to emerge instead of receding…”
Gert Heiland on the occasion of the exhibition at the Galerie im Kreishaus Wetzlar, February 2002
“… in Dorothea Bido’s abstraction, objects seem to be tangible everywhere, although not really present. But, are really only objects vivid?…”
Art historian Jörg-Heiko Bruns, Erfurt, on the occasion of Dorothea Bido’s exhibition ‘Farbklänge’ at the Kleine Galerie Ilmenau, August 2003.
“… Dorothea Bido offers the viewer an abstract world of images that can unfold a magic in him…”
Maria Herlo, Schwetzinger Zeitung April 3, 2012, on the occasion of Dorothea Bido’s exhibition ‘Malerei und Graphik’ at the XYLON-Museum Schwetzingen.
" … Every viewer is called upon to give in to the impulses of the colors for himself and to find his own story in the paintings, the memory of a summer evening, a dreamy Sunday in the open air, the coolness of a forest spring …”
Markus Fritsch, Wetzlarer Neue Zeitung on the occasion of the exhibition ‘Farbimpulse’ April/May 2017 at Kunstverein Wetzlar, Hauser Gasse 17”.
Dorothea Bido - Am See (1992), 80 x 80 cm, Öl auf Leinwand
