A new view of art
Situated in a 250-year-old farmhouse overlooking the lake of Biel/Bienne, the gallery "Artiz" offers a new space for art, encounter and discourse in the Bernese Jura. Much is possible. Exhibitions, of course, but also an open space where art emerges and lives - in whatever form.
We wish to create a place where art, work and vision combine and where encounters and discussions become possible – with old and new friends and art lovers.
This is Artiz - Gallery for Art and Artists
The «Gottfried Tritten Archive»
The new web archive is online!
You can now find a new resource platform for information on the painter and art educator Gottfried Tritten (13 December 1923 - 15 January 2015) at gottfriedtritten.ch. The archive is constantly being expanded and updated.
In the web archive, biographical and work-related resources are made available for research purposes and simply for discovery. You will also find all of the artist's works curated by the Artiz Gallery and for sale from his private estate.
«I only give my art as art.
If you want something by halves, then I'll do without.
There are no half measures in art.»
Gottfried Tritten, 1997
Gottfried Tritten
100th anniversary retrospective
The current exhibition shows works by the painter and art educator Gottfried Tritten (23 December 1923 - 15 January 2015). This is the first posthumous retrospective of this renowned Swiss artist. The exhibition covers the entire creative period and allows visitors to immerse themselves in the visual and intellectual world of this representative of lyrical abstraction.
Discover or rediscover an artist who has spent his life looking, researching, creating and being serious about art.
Prolongation: A visit to the retrospective is still possible until 2 May 2024 on Thursdays from 16-19h or on request!
In any case, please register by telephone or e-mail. Thank you!
«I only give my art as art.
If you want something by halves, then I'll do without.
There are no half measures in art.»
Gottfried Tritten, 1997
Exhibitions | Events 2023|2024
Exhibitions
Gottfried Tritten
Retrospective on the occasion of the 100th anniversary Opening with a small birth celebration for interested parties: Wednesday, 13 December 2023, 4-7 pm (birthday of Gottfried Tritten 1923-2015) Vernissage: Saturday, 16 December 2023, 4-7 pm Opening hours: 16 December 2023-30 March 2024, DO 4-7 pm or by telephone appointment (076 331 66 77). Finissage: Saturday, 30 March 2024, 4-7 pm
Extra time: The exhibition can be visited until 2 May 2024 on Thursdays from 16-19h or on request .Please register in any case by telephone or e-mail. Thank you!
The exposition shows works from the estate of the painter and art educationist Gottfried Tritten. Paintings and prints from all creative periods are represented. Wanna know more?Events
Finissage of the exposition "Gottfried Tritten | Retrospective on the occasion of the 100th anniversary"
Wednesday, 30 March 2024: 4–7 p.m. We want to commemorate together the life and work of Gottfried Tritten in the midst of some of his works Wanna know more?Estate Gottfried Tritten
Gottfried Tritten (1923-2015), called 'Tiz', left behind so much at his death - besides the gap in our lives.
The majority of his sketchbooks and project sheets, his business correspondence and other art-historically valuable documents were handed over to the State Archives of the Canton of Valais at his request. In Valais he lived in his studio house for half his life. Paintings that he had not sold, given away or exchanged with other artists throughout his life filled the depot of his studio in Grimisuat. This pictorial estate includes completed paintings and prints, as well as incomplete works, sketches of paintings, and his collection of works by other artists, many of whom had been his students.
His daughter Sibylle Tritten now manages half of the work he left behind. The estate is curated by the Artiz Gallery. We show some of his paintings in the following picture gallery. More works can be found on the works website.
If you are interested in paintings by Gottfried Tritten, please contact us. Most of the works can also be purchased from the private estate.
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- Gottfried Tritten, self-portrait, blue, ca. 1983, 80x80cm, acrylic & aquacrylic on Novopan
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- Gottfried Tritten, Portrait of my mother, 1984-86, 170x114cm, acrylic, pastel & oil on photographic linen
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- Gottfried Tritten, After a flying bird – or: Flight, 1949, 63x58cm, tempera on paper
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- Gottfried Tritten, Hand IV – Phrisso(s), 1984, 86x86cm, screenprint 1/20 on watercolour paper
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- Gottfried Tritten, Untitled (Wildstrubel), ca. 2005, 54x68cm, watercolour & Aquatec on watercolour paper
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- Gottfried Tritten, Mountain of Excitement / Montagne de l’irritation (Niesen), 1980-86, 235x200cm, acrylic, pastel & oil on canvas
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- Gottfried Tritten, Landscape from the Landscape – Wildstrubel, 2006, 57x48cm, Aquacryl and Aquatec on paper on Novopan
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- Gottfried Tritten, An Ishtar, 1993-94, 140x200cm, acrylic, ash & oil on canvas
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- Gottfried Tritten, The grey mountain, 1984-86, 180x180cm, acrylic & oil on canvas
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- Gottfried Tritten, Reflection (front), 1982-87, 180x180cm, acrylic & oil on canvas
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- Gottfried Tritten, Reflection (reverse), 1982-87, 180x180cm, acrylic & oil on canvas
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- Gottfried Tritten, Landscape inside and outside (Red signs), 2001, 120x160cm, acrylic, pastel & oil on canvas
Contact
Gallery Artiz
- Sibylle Tritten | Peter Gerber
Crêt-de-Fourmis 1
2515 Prêles