ムードを選ぶだけで、空間がそれに応えます。光は冷たさや温もりを帯び、空気の流れが変わり、その感情を宿した作品だけが暗闇の中から浮かび上がります。それ以外のすべては、影の中へと退いていくのです。
Early Life, Family and Training Born in the town of Lemgo, Germany, on 23 July 1601, Simon Peter Tilemann entered a world where art was a matter of lineage and labor. He was the son of Johann Tilemann, a man who held the position of bailiff to Count Simon VI at Lippe and practiced the art of painting. This familial connection ensured that the boy’s path was shaped by the brush and the pigment from his earliest years. The household was
one of movement and shifting fortunes, as his father had often traveled to the Netherlands to serve as an art agent. Tragedy struck the family in 1614 when the mother of the children passed away. Following this loss, Johann moved his five children to the city of Bremen, a place where he had acquired citizenship some years prior. It was within the walls of this new home that Simon Peter Tilemann began his formal education in the visual…