Bernd Nestler

Bernd Nestler is a German artist who studied art history at the University of Regensburg and graphic art and painting at theAcademy of Fine Arts in Munich. Nestler has developed his own formal and visual language merging figuration, abstraction, transparency and opacity with precise line structures and surfaces. Many of his works deal with religious topics, such as his icons, which he reinterprets with modern techniques. In addition the artist focuses on profane subjects, thereby taking a wander through art history and exploring images by Dürer, Manet and others through means of glass painting. As early as the 1980s Nestler participated in the development and production of 16 windows for the Cathedral of Regensburg. Numerous public and private commissioned works and Art-in-Architecture projects followed. In 2006 the artist presented a mirror installation at the AsamChurch, Munich. In 2011 he won a European competition to design a window at St. Christopher Cathedral in Roermond, the Netherlands.