HERMANN LEDERLE/Biography
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 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
Frank Pictures Gallery Bergamot Station - Santa Monica 2005
Solaris Gallery - Los Angeles 2005
Blackbox - 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
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
Reviews
The Book Los Angeles – Fall Winter 2001 ‘multi media man’
Reinpfalz Ludwigshafen.Germany - July 7 Th, 1987 ‘Die Isolation der Menschheit’
Artweek San Francisco – October 1986 ‘A Touch Of Chicanery"
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
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
LOS ANGELES TIMES FEATURE
Lederle's Painting at Laurie Frank House as featured in the Los Angeles Times Home Section September 20th 2007
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.
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A TOUCH OF CHICANERY
San Francisco /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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PRESS RELEASE
Paintings
BY Hermann Lederle
Frank Pictures Gallery
Bergamot Station
July 23 - August 2, 2005
Reception Saturday July 30, 4-8pm
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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HERMANN LEDERLE
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LAURIE FRANK
laurie@frankpicturesgallery.com
Frank Pictures Gallery
Bergamot Station
Gallery A-5
2525 Michigan Ave
Santa Monica Ca 90404
T 310.828.0211
F 310.828.0221
ALICIA ARMSTRONG
alicia@artbullet.com
Copal Collections
Palm Desert
