Natural Phenomena Abstract
In Fancher’s abstract colour fields and colour surfaces, the viewer believes to recognise something that is familiar to him: landscapes, impressions of nature, endless plains, clouds and sky, the elements earth, water, fire and air, morning and evening moods, light phenomena at different times of the day and year. All natural phenomena. Just like nature, Fancher Brinkmann’s pictures appear balanced and as a harmonious whole.
Each of her paintings leads a life of its own, has an existence of its own, so to speak – and therefore no longer has to relate to reality or objects. According to Theo van Doesburg, one of the co-founders of the international art movement “De Stijl”, painting is then closest to its essence and in this respect has reached its goal and climax when it leaves behind representationalism and concentrates solely on its own means: on colour and form. Fancher Brinkmann even goes one step further in her painting: she largely dispenses with form, which only appears as blurred areas and frayed fields, and relies almost exclusively on the effect of colour. Colours trigger sensations and feelings in everyone – whether consciously or unconsciously. She works mainly with the primary colours, plus black and white, and sometimes orange and violet also play a role on the margins. Fancher Brinkmann is particularly fond of the colour red.
“Red is the most versatile colour, one thinks of warmth, security, love, energy, but also fire, hell fire, hell or blood. Yellow is the complement to red, but at the same time the most difficult to use because it can to use because it can quickly appear too garish. Blue is simple and has a calming effect.”
These colour surfaces and fields then become, so to speak, the resonance surface of the viewer, who can project his or her current feelings on them: Lust for life, happiness, lightness, harmony, contentment, but also anger, sadness or depression. Her colours are oil colours because this technique allows more changes in the creation of a picture. Oil paints dry more slowly than the much duller acrylics commonly used today, so you can mix them in the finest nuances and achieve the most delicate colour effects this way. Thin glazes turn her paintings into luminous bodies of colour that seem to open gates into another, immaterial world.
“Everybody sees something different
in my paintings, that is the miracle of abstract art “
1957 born in Birmingham, Alabama, USA
1976-78 Fine Arts Studies at the University of the South Sewanee, Tennesee, USA
1979-81 Studied architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, Illinois, USA
1981-85 Studied architecture at the Technical University of Munich (Dipl. Ing.)
since 1986 freelance artist and architect in Munich
2023 Flow Fine Art Gallery, Leverkusen
2020 Flow Fine Art Gallery, Leverkusen
2019 FV2 Gallery, Munich/ 43rd Bernried Art Exhibition, Bernried
2018 Novethos Financial Partners, Munich
2017 Flow Fine Art Galerie, Leverkusen/ Kunstverein Otoobrunn/ 41st Bernried Art Exhibition, Bernried/ Arts Acre Museum, India
2016 Sperl Gallery, Potsdam/ Immaginaria Arti Visive Gallery, Florence
2015 Galerie Risse, Weßling/ Haltmair am See, Rottach-Egern/ Immaginaria Arti Visive Gallery, Floren
2014 Sperl Gallery, Potsdam/ Orangerie im Englischen Garten, Munich/ Autorengalerie 1, Munich/ Gallery en Beauregard, Montreux
2013 Arforum Interpres, Deisenhofen/ Spiekermann & Co AG, Bielefeld/ Rathaus Oberhaching/ Autorengalerie 1, Munich
2012 Galerie Huber, Munich/ Galerie Risse, Weßling/ Klinikum Heidenheim/ Spiekermann & Co AG, Osnabrück
2011 BMW AG, Munich/ Kleiner Prinz Gallery, Baden-Baden/ Huber Gallery, Munich/ Risse Gallery, Weßling
2010 Gallery Huber, Munich/ NB Consulting, Berlin/ Gllerie Kleiner Prinz, Baden-Baden
2008 “Insights”, Mohr Villa, Munich
2006 “Red”, Sperl Gallery, Potsdam
2005 “DB Temporary Work”, Deutsche Bahn AG, Berlin
2001 “R. Fancher Brinkmann”, Daimler Chrysler AG, Berlin/ “Colors of Indian Summer”, Stadtmuseum Weilheim/ “R. Fancher Brinkmann”, Spiekermann & Co AG, Osnabrück
1999 “Ruth Fancher Brinkmann”, Spitäle an der Alten Mainbrücke, Würzburg
1997 “Entfesselter Traum”, Friends of Emanuel von Seidl, Walchsee/ “Scharlachroter Himmel”, Gallery at CA, Kufstein “Janussonne”, Steel-Glass-Art, Kirchheim near Munich
1996 “Winterzeit”, Gallery Schloss Lipperheide, Brixlegg/ “Crash out of Time”, RTL Television, Munich
1995 “Moon Legend”, Gallery at Promenadenplatz, Munich/ “Silent Light”, Town Hall Ottobrunn/ “Monologue with the Wind”, Gallery Kunsthof-Türkenhof, Munich/ “Winter Legend”, Town Hall Ottobrunn/ “Pictures, Letters, Notes xxxii”, Authors Gallery 1, Munich
1978 “Women in architecture today”, Art institute of Chicaco