Press reports, interviews and portraits, plus press releases, invitations and press photos on the work, art and projects of Stephan Graf Bentzel-Sturmfeder.
Coverage includes
Nordbayerische Nachrichten · Bunte · Kreul · Abendzeitung München · Erlanger Nachrichten
Overview
Since 2008, newspapers, magazines and press releases have followed the work of Stephan Graf Bentzel-Sturmfeder. The archive shows an artist who moves between studio, gallery and unusual venues and always sees art as an occasion for people to meet.
In 2008 Bunte, Abendzeitung and tz in Munich reported on a vernissage at star hairdresser Gerhard Meir’s salon on Promenadeplatz and on a reception at Galerie Reygers, where his paintings were auctioned for the Order of Malta’s children’s pilgrimage to Lourdes. The proceeds went to sick children.
2013 brought the exhibition “Wege” (Paths) at Galerie Robert Weber in Munich, the art event StuttgartONE in Stuttgart’s old music school and an exhibition in Beijing. In 2014 the installation “Herby in the Bath” at the Transfer bar in Erlangen, a homage to David’s “The Death of Marat”, caused a stir; the Erlanger Nachrichten ran the headline “A skeleton relaxes in the bathtub”. The theft of a work made from pieces of the Berlin Wall and shopping trolleys – a piece about the fall of the Wall and consumerism – also made headlines. In the same year he designed the 13th artist label for the Graf Bentzel-Sturmfeder winery. Between 2014 and 2019 he exhibited three times at the Parallel Vienna art fair.
In 2015 he showed 30 works in Berlin in the double exhibition “Bentzel & Rosenzweig” and took part in a group exhibition at Schloss Jägersburg. With the retrospective “20 Years of Art” in the garden pavilion of Schloss Thurn, opened by former Bavarian State Minister Dr Thomas Goppel, he looked back on two decades of painting.
After “Blood and Opium” in 2016, failure moved to the centre of his work. The exhibition “Tragic Hero” was shown in 2017 at the Hearthouse gallery on Lenbachplatz in Munich. In Forchheim he opened the town’s first pop-up gallery in the Buchdruckerhaus with 24 works about tragic heroes. The Nordbayerische Nachrichten followed the project for months, from “Art fills empty shops in the town centre” to “Art in the Buchdruckerhaus a complete success”, also asking whether art can revive retail in the town centre. A reading by the author Marian Hajduk and a joint exhibition with Christina Soler and Silvia Wawarta made the gallery a meeting place. In 2018 “Tragic Hero” moved on to the foyer of the Erlangen municipal utilities.
More recent works such as “The Gathering” (2021, 120 × 270 cm) show large-format painting between figuration and abstraction. Today he works in his studio at Schloss Jägersburg; most recently, in 2025, his works were on show at the Foodpark Baiersdorf. What all these stations have in common is the wish to bring art to where people come together: into galleries and castles, empty shops and bars.
Press report · Nordbayerische Nachrichten · 25 November 2014
by Stefan Mößler-Rademacher / Alexander Hitschfel
A work made from pieces of the Berlin Wall and shopping trolleys – a piece about the fall of the Wall and consumerism – was stolen from the exhibition at the Transfer bar in Erlangen.
Exhibition · Nordbayerische Nachrichten · 23 May 2017
by Jana Petersen
Forchheim’s first pop-up gallery in the Buchdruckerhaus shows 24 works on the theme of “tragic heroes” and on failure.
Press release · 6 October 2014
Presentation of the artist label designed by Stephan Bentzel, with a vernissage at the Graf Bentzel-Sturmfeder winery, Schozach, on 1 November 2014.
Press photo
Press report · Nordbayerische Nachrichten · 10 February 2017
by Beke Maisch
Press photo
Press release · 2014
Installation “Herby in the Bath”, a homage to David’s “The Death of Marat”, in November 2014 at the Transfer bar, Erlangen.
Invitation · 2017
Galerie Hearthouse, Lenbachplatz 2, Munich, from 20 July 2017.
Press release · 15 November 2015
Retrospective “Stephan Bentzel – 20 Years of Art”, opened on 15 November 2015 by former Bavarian State Minister Dr Thomas Goppel in the garden pavilion of Schloss Thurn, Heroldsbach.
Press report · Bunte · 2008
Press photo
Invitation
Press release · 20 July 2017
Exhibition “Tragic Hero” at Galerie Hearthouse, Lenbachplatz 2, Munich, 20 July to 14 September 2017. Press release in English.
Press report · 26 November 2014
Press photo
Press report · Nordbayerische Nachrichten · 13 June 2017
by Nina Eichenmüller
Press release · 12 February 2015
Group exhibition of eight artists at Schloss Jägersburg, curated by Dr Natalie Lauer, spring 2015.
Portrait · Kreul · 8 June 2017
Press photo
Press report · Abendzeitung München · 2008
Invitation · 5 September 2013
Kernerstraße 33a, Stuttgart, 5 September 2013, from 7 pm.
Press photo · 2021
Exhibition · 14 November 2015
Press photo · 2013
Invitation · 10 October 2013
Galerie Robert Weber – Lichtkreuzung, Gabelsbergerstraße 70, Munich, opening on 10 October 2013.
Press release · 2014
Exhibition · Nordbayerische Nachrichten · 2017
by Beke Maisch
Press photo
Invitation · 2016
Press photo · 2017
Exhibition · Erlanger Nachrichten · 12 November 2014
Press release · 14 August 2013
Group exhibition by Galerie Robert Weber – Lichtkreuzung in Stuttgart’s old music school, vernissage on 5 September 2013.
Invitation · 2008
Press photo · 2016
Press report · Bunte · 2008
Press photo
Press release · 2018
Invitation · 2017
Press report · Nordbayerische Nachrichten · 2017
Press photo
Exhibition · Nordbayerische Nachrichten · 5 February 2018
Press release · 6 August 2015
Double exhibition “Bentzel & Rosenzweig” with 30 works at Box 32, Berlin, August 2015.
Invitation
Press photo · 2014
Press report · 13 March 2008
Press photo
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Press release
Exhibition · Nordbayerische Nachrichten · 2017
by Udo Güldner
Press photo · 10 November 2013
Invitation · 7 February 2018
Foyer of the Erlangen municipal utilities, Äußere Brucker Straße 33, Erlangen. Opening on 7 February 2018, 6 pm; exhibition until 25 February.
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