dark landscape Painting

Landscape - that is first thought and then made and then painted and then redone, and in the end it looks and is treated like pure nature This title of a newspaper article from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung by Hans Jörg Küster from 2000 inspired me how landscape could find a new artistic expression in my painting. The knowledge of my Prof. Axel Kasseböhmer about the inability of trees to be paintable was one aspect of my intensive study of the topic of a landscape shaped by urbanity. The multifaceted presentation possibilities of the composition of my pictures, which is constantly rediscovering itself, allow the viewer a multitude of interpretation possibilities. Again and again I am concerned with how I can paint a landscape in time today in 2020. So over the years I have always brought new aspects into my painting. Be it excerpts from old paintings, be it motifs from maps, the freezing of movements played a role. Among other things, I always use it to create new references to existing images or artists' points of view. In the spirit of Andre Malraux about his knowledge of the imaginary museum. Every landscape that surrounds us has been created by people. The natural / wild landscape (primeval landscape) no longer exists. The forests that surround us are artificially created and date from the 17th century. After the Thirty Years' War there were virtually no forests in Germany. Designed landscape was always a sign of unlimited power of the rulers, especially in times of absolutism. The creation of strictly geometric gardens, the cutting of shrubbery was a sign of absolute power over nature. The ruler showed that even the plants must obey him. This has always been an expression of the oppression of the people. Only with the advent of humanism did the garden design change. Parks and landscape gardens were now allowed to develop more naturally, the gardens blended into the landscape smoothly. in English garden design. It was always an expression of the liberation of the individual. Expression for the freedom of art, So I see my fictitious landscapes as an expression of my individual, artistic and intellectual freedom.