On display are oil paintings and drawings by this exceptional artist from Western Pomerania.
Bertram von Schmiterlöw showed talent and artistic inclinations from an early age. However, he was unable to attend an art school for financial reasons. He was initially inspired and taught by the Stralsund portrait and landscape painter Hedwig Freese (1873 - 1956). He took painting and drawing lessons with her from 1942, before he had to go off to war at the age of 17. - In the post-war years, he earned his living through odd jobs and supported his father in building up and maintaining an important cultural and historical collection. Other teachers after Hedwig Freese's death were the painter and art teacher Erich Kliefert (1893 - 1994) and the painter Heinrich Lietz (1909 - 1981). From 1954 to 1992, Bertram von Schmiterlöw worked at the Stralsund Museum of Cultural History. Through the supervision of numerous art exhibitions in the museum and the associated opportunity for intensive discussion, he received numerous impulses for his own artistic work and also had contact with important artists and art historians. Since this time, his artistic role models have included Tom Beyer (1907 - 1981), Elisabeth Büchsel (1867 - 1957) and Otto Niemeyer-Holstein (1893 - 1984). - Bertram von Schmiterlöw lived in Stralsund from 1966, but remained loyal to his nearby hometown of Franzburg. Signs of the general recognition of his artistic work were his participation in national exhibitions, such as the art exhibition of the GDR or purchases of his works by important museums such as the Kunsthalle in Rostock or the Kupferstichkabinett in Schwerin. Exhibitions at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Stralsund on his 70th, 80th and 90th birthdays met with a great response. - Bertram von Schmiterlöw has been a candidate/member of the Association of Visual Artists since 1980/83. - His preferred subjects for his drawings and paintings were the people, landscapes and things around him. Intuitively and with great artistic sensitivity, he captured the essence and translated it artistically in an incredibly powerful and expressive manner.
