16.04.2026 14:00 - 17:00
Bernapark Museum - Kunstraum Thomas Demarmels, Bernapark 23, 3066 Stettlen
Discover the world of Arthur Freuler in the gallery of the Bernapark Museum, Kunstraum Thomas Demarmels from April 15 to July 3, 2026
Born in Glarus, Arthur Freuler spent his childhood and school years in Täuffelen on Lake Biel. He completed teacher training at the Muristalden Seminar in Bern before training as a drawing teacher at the Bern School of Arts and Crafts and the University of Bern. He has taught the subjects of design, oil painting, figurative drawing, portrait, figure and nude drawing in several schools, including the BMS (vocational secondary school design department) of the GIBB and the Bern/Biel School of Design.
Since 1989, he has set up and managed the Swiss School of Painting (SMS) for vacation courses and has led over 100 courses.
He initially devoted himself to figurative painting, which he abandoned in 1993 in favor of a more self-valent, reduced style of painting. His aim is to paint analogies to nature without copying nature.
About painting
In non-representational painting, it is challenging to define when the time has come to complete the picture. There are no clear reference points as in naturalistic painting. The decision to complete the picture can give rise to a feeling of arbitrariness. The seemingly completed works are therefore often reworked later, in small details or even radically, even long after supposed completion. It is the artist's need to see the "solidification" of the motifs by means of completion as only one of many possibilities.
The method of painting with oil paint allows earlier layers of paint to be covered or uncovered. Older pictorial elements can be varied by means of layer painting and glazes. He is primarily interested in their uniqueness, not the application of preconceived rules.
www.arthurfreuler.ch
Visit our public vernissage on April 21, 2026 from 17.30/18.00 to 20.00 in the presence of the artist. Take the opportunity to talk to the artist in person.
The opening hours of the Bernapark Museum, Kunstraum Thomas Demarmels are Wednesday - Sunday, 14.00 - 17.00.
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.
Born in Glarus, Arthur Freuler spent his childhood and school years in Täuffelen on Lake Biel. He completed teacher training at the Muristalden Seminar in Bern before training as a drawing teacher at the Bern School of Arts and Crafts and the University of Bern. He has taught the subjects of design, oil painting, figurative drawing, portrait, figure and nude drawing in several schools, including the BMS (vocational secondary school design department) of the GIBB and the Bern/Biel School of Design.
Since 1989, he has set up and managed the Swiss School of Painting (SMS) for vacation courses and has led over 100 courses.
He initially devoted himself to figurative painting, which he abandoned in 1993 in favor of a more self-valent, reduced style of painting. His aim is to paint analogies to nature without copying nature.
About painting
In non-representational painting, it is challenging to define when the time has come to complete the picture. There are no clear reference points as in naturalistic painting. The decision to complete the picture can give rise to a feeling of arbitrariness. The seemingly completed works are therefore often reworked later, in small details or even radically, even long after supposed completion. It is the artist's need to see the "solidification" of the motifs by means of completion as only one of many possibilities.
The method of painting with oil paint allows earlier layers of paint to be covered or uncovered. Older pictorial elements can be varied by means of layer painting and glazes. He is primarily interested in their uniqueness, not the application of preconceived rules.
Visit our public vernissage on April 21, 2026 from 17.30/18.00 to 20.00 in the presence of the artist. Take the opportunity to talk to the artist in person.
The opening hours of the Bernapark Museum, Kunstraum Thomas Demarmels are Wednesday - Sunday, 14.00 - 17.00.
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.