Wolfram Adalbert Scheffler

Wolfram Adalbert Scheffler gives his students at the HfBK Dresden the following "mission statement": painting, especially drawing, should be used as a direct, spontaneous and radical means of expression in the search for one's own truth. Routines should be interrupted, side paths taken, dead ends understood as a learning process. As a student, Scheffler himself only saw the inside of an art academy for a few months. His academy was literature and philosophy, books and empiricism. His paths in search of (self-)realisation were mostly sideways, his attitude distance, his means reduction. The artist disappears behind the form, the handwriting vanishes in the tangle of lines. His works do not depict space, they want to be space themselves.

Biography
Wolfram Adalbert Scheffler was born in Chemnitz in 1956. in 1980, he began studying at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, which he dropped out of in the same year. With his artistic work and non-conformist attitude, he had a great influence on the underground art scene in the GDR, which he left in 1986. He then lived in Paris, Amsterdam, Biel and Berlin, and since 2012 Scheffler has been Professor of Painting and Graphics at the Dresden University of Fine Arts.