ORIA = SUN, Berms-Batas, Eduard 1998.

Mixed media on cardboard, dated and inscribed several times by hand on the creation of the work, lower left marked, name and address details left several times in the work of art, overleaf work list **Oria = Sun 18.2.98 + Sun. 22.2.98 - 15.30* No. 43*, work by Eduard Berms-Batas, born on 11.03.1930 in Willich near Krefeld, is known at the same time as an architect, photographer, traveller, collector, archivist and artist, he studied graphics, painting and architecture at the Werkkunstschule in Krefeld, traveled to Europe, USA, Jamaica, Israel and South Africa, worked as a freelance architect and lived in Provence and Tessin, later lived and he worked with his wife in Mettingen, where he died on 7.2.2017, *Art does not reproduce the visible, but makes visible* this quote by Paul Klee, with whom Berms-Batas was also a student, characterize the artist's works; he says he feels connected to the traditions of the Bauhaus and had a great influence on a new development of art, so-called abstract expressionism. The European version of this artificial wool is known as *informel*. This means - rejection of composition rules in favor of spontaneous gestures, rhythms or free form finding. The most important representatives of the informals include Tapies, Twombly, Emil Schumacher, Gerd Höhme, Karl-Otto Götz and, of course, Eduard Berms-Batas, source Internet, here landscape format abstract composition in pastel colors and various materials, ca. 90 x 70 cm, behind glass in a simple strip approx. 91.5 x 71.5 cm.