REINHARD

His work has been exhibited in more than 200 galleries worldwide and is in prestigious public and private collections, studied design and composition in his native Germany. In 1961, at age 20, he entered the United States to continue his education at the Art Center School in Los Angeles.

Within the next 15 years, his productivity ranged from dozens of animated TV commercials and motion picture titles to more than 100 life-sized paper sculptures and scenic set designs for major network variety shows and TV specials hosted by Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Diana Ross, Bill Cosby and Carol Burnett. 

In 1974, Reinhard dissolved his studio in Hollywood, moved to Westport, Connecticut, and focused his talents on graphic design and illustration.Represented by Cullen Rapp, a top agent in New York, Reinhard created a great variety of illustrations for advertising and publishing clients including Max Factor, The New York Times, Seagram and Coca Cola, and received numerous awards from the Society of Illustrators. 

Reinhard resumed studies at the Art Center School in L.A. and the School of Visual Arts in New York. In 1976, he published a series of fine art posters and prints, many of which have musical motifs in humorous fantasy settings.

His best-known work, "The Rehearsal," a 4’x6’ sculpture of the Alban Berg String Quartet, earned him acclaim throughout the world. In the U.S., it’s been shown in the Oakland Art Museum, the Mint Museum in North Carolina and the Historical Society Museum in New York. 

Growing interest by galleries and art collectors for limited-edition paper sculptures (also called multiple originals) inspired Reinhard to invent a process in which the original is cast in resin without compromising the slightest detail, but preserving all the true characteristics and qualities of the original paper sculpture. 

Within the last five years, Reinhard’s work has taken a distinct departure, exploring a new direction of non-representational "self contained" paper sculptures. A blank sheet of paper undergoes fascinating transformations by cutting, tearing, and manipulating, but without removing anything or adding from another source.

Based in part on geometric principals, the sculptures exude his love for humor and playfulness, and acute sense of design, aesthetics and clarity. Reinhard's free-standing sculptures are of geometric origin, as well. They evoke a compelling illusion of movement, action and attitude, within the concept of simplicity.