Bernhard Zimmer born in Stuttgart and based in Cologne, Germany, has exhibited worldwide, including in Hanover, Munich, Dusseldorf, Basel, Gent, Hong Kong and Singapore. He has managed to create a positive stir at major international art fairs such as Art Basel and Kunst Köln. Zimmer produces layered, subtly textured paintings that contain diametrically opposed elements—order and chaos, abstraction and representation, boldness and subtlety—in exquisite tension. Working with oil and mixed media on canvas, he paints in color-fields of soft shapes and delicate lines. Whether figurative or abstract, Zimmer’s artworks inherently alter the feeling of a space. Zimmer’s work oscillates between the Geometric Abstraction of Josef Albers and the sublimely layered color fields of Mark Rothko, with added figures that seem to be composed of shadows. This tension between form, color, and text create canvases with glowing compositions that reverberate with emotion.