Gerhart Bergmann

The German artist Gerhart Bergmann, born in Erfurt in 1922, began his artistic training at the Fine Art School of Berlin with the expressionist painter Max Pechstein, one of the most outstanding members of the famous group Die Brücke. Between 1952 and 1953, he worked at the studio of Fernand Léger in Paris, and learned about his personal interpretation of the legacy of Cubism. Thus he had close personal experience of two of the key styles of European painting in the twentieth century, Expressionism and Cubism.