Mike Bruchner is a painter, draughtsman and illustrator from Potsdam. His work straddles the boundary between illustration, representational art and pure abstraction. He was born in Potsdam in 1965 and, amongst other things, left his artistic mark on the books published by HERZATTACKE e.V. His works are characterised by a sensitive use of colour, compositional sophistication and a dialectic between freedom and precision. He works both with oil on canvas and with expressive drawing techniques on various types of paper. A recurring motif is the depiction of living beings as fragile creations.
The volume Herzattacke, featuring texts from contemporary Czech literature, is the 116th issue of the bibliophile journal HERZATTACKE, which was founded in the second half of the 1980s in the Friedrichshain district of East Berlin by a group of visual artists and authors under the leadership of Maximilian Barck. The journal contains original graphic works by visual artists. A selection is presented here.
Featuring works by: Mario Brendel, Mike Bruchner, Frank Gaudlitz, Mercedes von Grünberg, Johannes Heisig, Chris Hinze, Katja Hommel, Uwe Klos, Constanze Kreiser, Wolfgang Leber, Olga Maslo, Steffen Mühle, Robert Paris, Nadine Respondek, Ruth Tesmar, Alex Weise, Klaus Zylla
