Ary Bergen
(1923 – 1995)
Ary Bergen experimented already as a small boy with pencils and colours in his father’s studio, a well known Hamburg painter (1886-1950). 1940 he received an assistance to gifted students at the Hansischen Hochschule für Bildende Künste. After 1945 he lived and worked as an artist at the Bodensee, before he returned to Hamburg in 1949 where he worked with his father until his death.
From 1952 on Ary Bergen drew first title type for ‘Der Stern’, then as chief designer at the ‘Hamburger Morgenpost’ where he illustrated the daily novel, and later also for the ‘Hamburger Abendblatt’ before he got first commissions from ad agencies, like f.e. for Sprengel chocolates, one of the first illustrated campaigns. At the beginning of the 1980ies his cover illustrations for the magazine ‘Hoer Zu’ – fotorealistic genre-picutres with his typical little winks, that reminded of Norman Rockwell’s world – caught the attention of the public. Besides his works for advertising campaigns Ary Bergen illustrated close to twenty years series and novels for the magazine ‘Frau im Spiegel’.
Ary Bergen experimented already as a small boy with pencils and colours in his father’s studio, a well known Hamburg painter (1886-1950). 1940 he received an assistance to gifted students at the Hansischen Hochschule für Bildende Künste. After 1945 he lived and worked as an artist at the Bodensee, before he returned to Hamburg in 1949 where he worked with his father until his death.
From 1952 on Ary Bergen drew first title type for ‘Der Stern’, then as chief designer at the ‘Hamburger Morgenpost’ where he illustrated the daily novel, and later also for the ‘Hamburger Abendblatt’ before he got first commissions from ad agencies, like f.e. for Sprengel chocolates, one of the first illustrated campaigns. At the beginning of the 1980ies his cover illustrations for the magazine ‘Hoer Zu’ – fotorealistic genre-picutres with his typical little winks, that reminded of Norman Rockwell’s world – caught the attention of the public. Besides his works for advertising campaigns Ary Bergen illustrated close to twenty years series and novels for the magazine ‘Frau im Spiegel’.
