Dieter Schlatter is a painter born in 1958 in Bern, Switzerland. He is an autodidact as an artist.
Scope and content
The collection consists of a paper bound book entitled "Unter der Wasserlinie" by Dieter Schlatter, Bern: Zytglogge, 1987, a spiral bound notebook used to receive comments at an exhibition at the New Westminster Public Library, March 1995, a folder containing four black and white contact sheets of photoprints, 1984, and a plastic box containing five colour slides in a plastic sleeve of portrait paintings, by Schlatter, of friends of the artist.
Note
The artist stated: "I started out as a photographer, wrote fiction but soon realized that the medium that suited my need for expression best, was painting. I used to paint landscapes among other things but gave it up because humans, the human body, interaction, life, mortality were the only things that really interested me. Expression is my main goal, touching the nerves of the viewer, portraying nudes or bodyparts without sliding into pornography or mere decoration. I never attended any art schools or painting classes because I can be influenced very easily and I didn't want to end up trying to please some teachers or visualize somebody else's ideas. All the people portrayed are friends of mine."
