Bernd Koberling - Artist Info

About Bernd Koberling

  • Biography

    Bernd Koberling was born in 1938 in Berlin and initially trained as a chef from 1955 to 1958 before deciding to pursue art. He studied painting under Max Kaus at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Berlin from 1958 to 1960 and undertook extensive travels to Sweden, Lapland, and England, which shaped his early landscape sensibility.

    In 1960 Koberling co-founded the neo-expressionist artist group Vision with Manfred Laber, Johann A. Marxmüller, and Josef K. Senft-Hohburg. He became associated with the young neo-expressive painters whose work emphasized intensity, emotional force, and a renewed painterly freedom. His early solo exhibitions included Galerie Großgörschen 35 in Berlin (1965), Galerie René Block in Berlin (1966), Galer...

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