Michael Rogler Biography
Michael Rögler was born in Mainz in 1940 and moved to Frankfurt am Main in 1955. After studying painting at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart from 1960 to 1963 with Prof. Wildemann, he enrolled in the art history course at the JW Goethe Universität in Frankfurt. Rögler's early paintings were influenced by the German painters Heinz Kreuz and Otto Greis, members of the famous “Quadriga” group. However, Rögler immediately abandons excessive polychromy in favor of the essentiality of gray and white, indirectly taking inspiration from the “Zero” group. Its color concept is developed based on black, white, green and red, combining them simultaneously in different color variations that always tend towards a perfect balance. At the same time, Rögler creates a tangible imaginary pictorial space, as opposed to illusion and representation. The primary color gradually tends to dominate, leaving the complementary color on the lateral margins. Later, Rögler became interested in American abstract expressionism (Rotko, Newman). He collaborates with the Appel gallery in Frankfurt and the Rabus gallery in Bremen, who represent him at the fairs in Cologne, Frankfurt and Basel for several years. The exhibition "Die Farbe hat mich", curated by Michael Fehr at the end of 1999 at the Ernst Osthaus Museum in Hagen, is particularly significant for the artist's career.
