Johann-Peter Reuter

Johann-Peter Reuter (b. 1949) studied painting and graphic arts in Dortmund. Since 1978 he has worked as a painter and graphic artist. He has had numerous exhibitions inside and outside Germany. He started as a figurative artist, even though his objects and figures were rendered differently than they appear in real life. He wanted to show more than meets the eye, to enter the area of the imagination, which points to zones of human consciousness that cannot be portrayed or proven, but nonetheless exist in us. His way of working has over time become more and more non-figurative. Music is implicitly present in all of Reuter’s works, providing a religious impuls. He has translated his musical experiences in series of paintings that are dominated by one or just a few colours, while the other formal features of the works underline the meaning opened by these colours. For more, see http://www.johann-p-reuter.de.