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DE ES Schwertberger
DE ES Schwertberger has been and independent artist since 1962. He considers himself to be a seeker, who shows what he has found through "the language of the images". His message of "meaning and transformation" finds clear and intense expression in his paintings through a precise use of space, light and texture.
DE ES Schwertberger was born in 1942 in Gresten, Austria.
Lightsearch: 1960-1970
DE ES graduated in 1961 from an engineering school in Vienna and studied the painting techniques of the Old Masters with Ernst Fuchs. His first one-man show was in 1964, called Ideas of Truth. He discovered new painting impulses from the exploration of the silk-screen technique, and ideas of consciousness expansion led him to the Stone Period.
The Stone and The Light: 1970-1980
Becoming the assistant to Professor Ernst Fuchs at the Summer Academy in Reichenau in 1973 led to a series of shows in Vienna and throughout Europe. DE ES moved to Soho, New York in 1975. The Stone-Period culminates in the triptych The Joining in 1977 and ends in the series of Time Portal, receiving publication in the Magazine Omni. He opened a gallery for transformative art called Studio Planet Earth in 1979.
Transformation and the Dome of Peace: 1980-1990
DE ES works on a cycle of 100 paintings (each 2m x 2m) for the Gesamtkunstwerk Dome of Peace. He published The Philosopher’s Stone and then moved back to Vienna in 1986, adapting The Sinnreich as a studio and gallery. His first sculptures were completed during this time and called The Planetarian Couple.
The Skin of the Earth: 1990-2000
DE ES completed an outdoor exhibition of forty Planetarians (painted sculptures) on the Gurten Mountain in Bern, Switzerland in 1991. He published Heavy Light (Morpheus) in 1993. Nature, Structure, and Wave became the major words in the image language of this period of his work. To celebrate the new millennium he produced another 100 Planetarians, which appeared “Am Himmel” in Vienna in 2000.
Archetextures: since 2000
As the result of the process of painting the Planetarian sculptures, a new dynamic style emerged for DE ES, which shows swarmlike formations of soul-figures, embedded in streaming energy-patterns and elemental space-systems.
