Born in Germany (*1940 in Templin), he has lived and worked in Caracas/Venezuela since 1974, where he died on October 23, 2019. His last exhibition took place under the heading "The Dignity of Silence" in the Eine Art Galerie in Cologne.

Jorge Stever, painter and sculptor as he is often described, is one of our best-known plastic artists, pontor and sculptor, having completed his studies in philosophy and art history in Frankfurt and Munich (Germany). In 1972 he took part in the "Documenta 5" (Kassel, Germany) and exhibited in 1973 in the Darmstadt Museum and in the Kunsthalle in Cologne, in the Museum of Modern Art in Helsinki, in the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm and in the Weingarten Gallery in Stockholm with Jasper Johns. That year he lived in Venezuela and has been exhibiting as a Venezuelan artist ever since. His work is related to lyrical abstraction or new realism, with clear informalist influences. He has been featured in numerous publications in Europe and America as one of the forerunners of hyperrealism. In 1974 he exhibited again at Stockholm's Weingarten Gallery together with Lynn Chadwick and at Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, where he received the National Painting Prize that year. He also takes part in the III Triennial of New Delhi ( India) where he received the gold medal.He stayed away from the art market for some time but, after years of research, exhibited in the Galería Garcés/Velásquez (Bogotá) and in the Sala RG. For Susana Benko, the work of this artist is "a solid work because it is the result of a continuous, daily, solitary investigation. For Stever, penetrating the darkness is also not new. Years ago, chromatic sobriety was present in his works. Then was it the white period and at another time he explored colour. But none of these phases interrupt each other. They have a logic and they show a coherent plastic thought" (1989). In 1990 he participated in the collective "New Abstract Painting". Ocho planteamientos" (Walk through the Museo Soto, the Museo Francisco Narváez and the Sala RG) and "Los 80. Panorama of the Visual Arts in Venezuela" (GAN). Steve's work has as its main characteristic a dense, dark and very pigmented atmosphere. Roberto Guevara has said of his painting that it possesses a brilliant and unique aura, which in recent times orients itself towards the opaque, almost monochromatic textures.Although his work was previously more identified with the pictorial technique, it was in the early 1990s that he distinguished himself his sculpture. In this context, the artist himself said that it is the beginning of everything, because this branch of art has a "mystical charge". According to Jesús Fuenmayor, they are "sculptural segments in which the artist expresses his intuitive way of perceiving expressing things". Jorge Stever has moved from historically charged pre-Columbian symbols to working with banal references and has irony in his painting and contradiction" (Monsalve, 1991).

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His works