Peter Bergmann is 70 years old. He is also a renowned Berner Oberland painter from the village of Oberville, which is only a short drive from our village along the Simmental, down towards the town of Thun. Back until a few days ago, i had no idea who Peter Bergmann was, but since he turned 70 recently, the local paper printed an article about him which mentioned that a special exhibition of some of his work will be held in Steffisburg until November 25th to commemorate his birthday.
I haven't mentioned this before but i do possess a great appreciation for art with an emphasis on paintings. My favourite theme is nature with autumn and winter pieces in particular and just about anything that has to do with the Christmas season. Well, Mr. Bergmann's exhibit happened to feature just that. So you can imagine my excitement when i found out about it. Steffisburg is a small village next to Thun and we just happened to be heading down that way last weekend anyway, so it worked out great.
The exhibit was held in Villa Schüpbach, which is a big old house with all the rooms emptied out and the walls decked with Mr. Bergmann's works. Each room had its own theme, including the stairs to the lower level, and the cellar which was the actual atelier.
As i mentioned above, most of the pieces were autumn and winter scenes, but there were many featuring summer paysage, flowers, and animals, the majority of them donkeys, sheep and cravens. Room V was something of a Christmas theme and that one was, of course, my favourite room which also happened to contain my favourite piece shown above in this blog. The piece is called "Chlausentag" which translates into "Santa Clause Day", painted in 2007 on acrylic. I fell in love with it so much that my husband decided to buy it for me as a Christmas gift. That would have been so wonderful had it not been sold already! I was quite disappointed especially since all my other choices were also sold away. I was prepared to leave empty handed until we reached the atelier. There, in one corner, was an over sized folder containing numerous loose pieces. We were just leafing through them when a beautiful black and white winter scene caught my eye. My husband looked at me and i smiled and nodded.
I left Villa Schüpbach very happy holding my Christmas gift in my cold little hands. My handy husband will make me a frame for it and i plan to be able to enjoy it by Christmas.
As a bonus, i happened to see a mini version of my favourite piece in the form of a card by the entrance as we were leaving, which i promptly purchased and after framing that one as well i hope to be able to enjoy it at my desk.
Above are photographs of the pieces that moved me. Taking photographs at the exhibit was permitted, so i captured the ones i wanted to bring back with me.
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