JORGE STEVER

Born in Germany (in 1940, in Templin), he lived and worked in Caracas/Venezuela since 1974, where he died on October 23, 2019. His last exhibition took place under the title “The Dignity of Silence” at the “eine art galerie”, then still in Cologne. Jorge Stever, painter and sculptor, as he is often called, is one of our best known visual artists, who graduated in philosophy and art history in Frankfurt and Munich (Germany). In 1972, he participated in “Documenta 5” (Kassel, Germany) and in 1973, he exhibited with Jasper Johns at the Darmstadt Museum and Kunsthalle in Cologne, the Museum of Modern Art in Helsinki, the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm, and the Weingarten Gallery in Stockholm. The same year, he lived in Venezuela and since then exhibited as a Venezuelan artist. His work is classified as lyrical abstraction or New Realism, with clear influences of Informalism. He has been published in numerous publications in Europe and America as one of the pioneers of Hyperrealism. In 1974, he exhibits again at the Weingarten Gallery in Stockholm, together with Lynn Chadwick, and at the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, where he receives the National Painting Award that year. He also participates in the III Triennale of New Delhi (India), where he receives the gold medal.