Hermann Lederle Biography

Hermann Lederle

Hermann Lederle has pursued various forms and mediums of the arts. After attending Karl Friedrich School for humanist and classic studies, Hermann re-directed his career path. His experience in photography taught him a new sense of beauty and atmosphere and inspired him to further his education in painting, photography and filmmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute.

There, Hermann established his own visual language to express his multiple ideas and passion through the lens, on canvas and on the screen. His paintings were inspired by travels all over this country and abroad in where he developed a strong following.

He has become known and well-respected as an accomplished artist in the U.S. and Europe. His works of art have been exhibited in various galleries in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Germany, Canada, Hungary and France.Hermann's paintings are in private collections of the Friedman Guinness Gallery Heidelberg Germany, Court Gallery New York, Lawson Galleries San Francisco, Media Rare Gallery Los Angeles and in the homes of Ringo Starr, Eric Stolz, Cal Zecca, Gabor Csupo. Hermann Lederle now resides in Los Angeles, California, where he works in his Hollywood loft.

Some of his most recent exhibitions were at the Alicia Armstrong Gallery Palm Desert 2011, the Frank Pictures Gallery Santa Monica 2005, the Solaris Gallery Los Angeles 2005, the MVPA Artfest Los Angeles September 2002, the Paris Photo Gallery November 2001, the Media Rare Gallery Los Angeles February 2001 and the Schroeck-Schmidt Gallery in Germany July 2000.

Education

San Francisco Art Institute. BFA

Solo Exhibitions

Alicia Armstrong Gallery - Palm Desert Feb 2011
Copal Fine Art Gallery - Palm Desert 2010
Frank Pictures Gallery Bergamot Station - Santa Monica 2005
Solaris Gallery - Los Angeles 2005
Black Box - Los Angeles 2003
Media Rare Gallery - Los Angeles 2001
Paris Photo Lab - Los Angeles 2001
Orson Studio - Los Angeles 1999
Café American - San Francisco 1987
Alte Gutselfabrik - Frankenthal.Germany 1987
Lawson Galleries - San Francisco 1986
The Court Gallery - New York 1986

Group Exhibitions

Copal Fine Art - Palm Desert Summer 2010
M.V.P.A. - Los Angeles 2002
Arden House - Los Angeles 2002
ConTempory WelFare - Los Angeles 2001
Schroeck-Schmidt Gallery - Neckargemuend.Germany 2000
Seed Foundation House Of Blues - Los Angeles 1999
Friedman Guinness Gallery - Heidelberg.Germany 1991
Ivey Gallery - Los Angeles 1989
Emerging Collectors Gallery - Paris.France 1987
Emerging Collectors Gallery - New York 1987
Contemporary Museum Gallery - Budapest.Hungary 1986
International Art Fair - Montreal.Canada 1986
Diego Rivera Gallery - San Francisco 1984
Goodman Gallery - San Francisco 1983
Diego Rivera Gallery - San Francisco 1982

PAINTING | LARGE FORMAT

Book Hermann Lederle Selected Paintings 2000 - 2008 Book Preview

Oil paintings by artist Hermann Lederle of selected works from 2000 to 2008. The new canvases depict iconic images layered with contemporary phrases and slogans in abstract painterly compositions. The use of a cold wax medium mixed with the oils creates a rich and textured surface of subtle color nuances. Publish Date March 14, 2009.
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CHARCOAL & PASTEL

Book of Charcoal and Pastel Drawing Hermann Lederle Book Preview

Selected charcoal and pastel drawings on paper from 2002 through 2010 by artist Hermann Lederle. Publish Date March 23, 2010.
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COPAL FINE ART

Copal Fine Art Exhibition Catalog Hermann Lederle Book Preview

Exhibition catalog of paintings by Hermann Lederle April 2010
By Berlinna
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IMAGE SYSTEM

Book of Paintings by Hermann Lederle 2003 Book Preview

Book of collection of paintings by Hermann Lederle from 1984 through 2003. Introduction by Mia Taylor.
Publish Date 2003.
Available upon request.
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Collections

Esther Friedman - Friedman Guiness Gallery
John Gavin - The Court Gallery, New York
Carla Baird & David Crane - Lawson Galleries, San Francisco
Laurie Frank - Media Rare Gallery, Los Angeles
Jeff Ayerhoff - Virgin Records, Los Angeles
Juergen Schreiber - Kunsthandel Mannheim
Walter Channing - CW Group New York
Susan Swig - Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco
Desi Hoffmann - Hoffmann Concerts Germany
Ringo Starr - Los Angeles
Eric Stoltz - Los Angeles
Dariusz Wolski - Malibu
Dieter & Dr. Eugenia Bazlen - Ludwigshafen, Germany
Larry Williams - Los Angeles
Peggy Knickerbocker - San Francisco
Martin Schaer - Montana
Gabor Csupo - Los Angeles
Felix Kam Chung & Thom Bissett - Los Angeles
Matthew Wagner - Los Angeles
Ian Kimbrey & Joanne Forchas - Los Angeles
Jerilynn Hanson - Thymes Minneapolis
Natalie Hill - Los Angeles
MJ Carlyle & Co - Los Angeles
Gerhard Schmidt Ferry - Hamburg, Germany
Brad Elterman - Los Angeles
Valerie & Ron Slim - Dana Point
Bela Kerek - Budapest, Hungary
Andrea & Frank Newcomer - Arden House Los Angeles
Lois Linden - Los Angeles
Marilyn Heston, MHA Media - Los Angeles
Regina & Wolfgang Chur - Stuttgart, Germany
Alicia & Ernest Armstrong - Palm Desert
Fraser Ross - Kitson, Los Angeles
Christie Burton - Santa Monica
David K. Haspel - Santa Monica
Kathy Kurasch - Malibu
Christian Koell - Hotel Olympia, Obergurgle Austria
Tina Broccoli - Malibu
Petra Borrmann & Walter Shirm - Michigan
Karen Winston - Malibu

Recent Exhibition

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Gallery Exhibition Palm Desert, February 2011

Press: Los Angeles Times Feature

LOS ANGELES TIMES FEATURE - Painting by Hermann lederle

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Painting by Hermann Lederle featured at Laurie Frank's House, September 20th 2007.

Reviews

The Book Los Angeles Fall Winter 2001 'multi media man'

Reinpfalz Ludwigshafen Germany July 7th, 1987 'Die Isolation der Menschheit'

Artweek San FranciscoOctober 1986 'A Touch Of Chicanery'

BY James Scarborough

Hermann Lederle's new work at Lawson Galleries perfectly illustrates Jose Orega y Gasset's contention in The Modern Theme that art, along with culture, reason and ethics, must enter the service of life. Ortega y Gasset prescribes, among other things, an art that is spontaneous, athletic and imbued with vitality; he finds it most apt that modern public history began on a tennis court in France.

Ortega y Gasset discerns a one-sided tendency in modern European history, the intellectual heritage into which Lederle, a German, was born. Here, there was a separation of culture and life as art distanced itself from the spontaneous life of the person considering it and acquired a consistency of its own: culture thereby became objective, set up in opposition to the subconscious that engendered it (this conceit informs a large part of Michel Foucault's The Order of Things). Culture, says Ortega Y Gasset, survives only when those who make art and those who view it inject it with a constant flow of vitality. Pictorially this can be illustrated by the difference in conception between the work of Lederle and his contemporaries Julian Schnabel, Francesco Clemente and Mimmo Palladino.

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Article

Image System

BY Mia Taylor

"What interests me is not just the complete picture, but a minute detail or a particular interaction which has to do with how an individual sees the world. Knowing what happened in the past and then projecting the future, you suspend yourself in that moment of time"

Hermann Lederle's work is not easy to categorize. Encompassing a variety of media, styles and scales, it somehow manages to maintain an ineffable balance. The influence of Clemente can be felt in some of the earlier expressionist works and recent works on paper, while the 'Pixel' series suggests a kind of Cubism for the digital age.

His work as a filmmaker cross-pollinates in subtle, oblique ways. The idea of pixel paintings came to him when working with digital images. "It was a discovery. We may have been seeing this way unconsciously since human beings had eyes, but now that we know we can zoom in on something, and then zoom out and see the whole picture, it becomes an awareness we can use to appreciate the pixilated version. Kind of like a primal, pre-conscious experience that relates to the era of technology."

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Press Release

Frank Pictures Gallery Exhibition 2005

Paintings by Hermann Lederle

Frank Pictures Gallery, Bergamot Station
July 23 - August 2, 2005, Reception Saturday July 30

Hermann Lederle's new show of his paintings at Frank Pictures Gallery is a body of selected works from 1987 to the present.

Though the blizzard of paint, Lederle evolves the history of his art: the quick charcoal life drawings of his years at the San Francisco Art Institute, their transformation into his blurred oil stick paintings, to his discovery of gold leaf, with it's definite high contrast surface, applied in grids that literally trap his expressionistic figures - bodies, faces, fish and birds -- within a pattern of golden pixels.

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Court Gallery Exhibition 1986

Court Gallery
61 Sullivan Street, New York N.Y. 10012
April 26- 11 May, 1986

Introduction by John Gavin

In this, his first solo exhibition, curated in New York by the Court Gallery and in San Francisco by the Lawson Galleries, Lederle offers a series of figurative paintings whose narrative is both personal and transpersonal, and suggests both relation and conflict. And there are, from a painterly point of view, observable references to the early German Expressionists in this young painter's gesture and sensibility.

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