Cassis - Plage du Bistouan

The motif, the view of the beach “Plage du Bestouan” in Cassis. The beach is my favorite place during my stays in Cassis. The foreground is dominated by the massive limestone cliffs of the beach, washed by the powerful waves of the sea. The spray foams and splashes dramatically, the movement and energy of the water are clearly perceptible. The bay stretches out in the middle ground, its turquoise waters glistening in the sunlight. Cap Canaille, the landmark of Cassis, rises majestically in the background. The steep cliffs catch the light of the low sun. The colors fade slightly in the distance. Cap Canaille is like a protective wall framing the bay.

Cassis - Plage de Bestouan

80x80 cm, Oil on Canvas, 2024

In the botanical Garden 2.

This motif also comes from the botanical garden in Augsburg (Germany), the picture shows the beautiful flower border in late summer. I am constantly refining my impressionistic painting technique.

In the botanical garden 2.

100x80 cm, Oil on Canvas, 2024

Delphinium & sage

After a long break I am trying to continue this blog again. I retired a year ago and am now fully occupied with painting and have a little more time for the blog. Apart from the blog I still have to update my work on SAATCHIART, SINGULART and recently on ARTFINDER, and of course my own online shop site. From this post on I will only write the texts in English, as most of the visitors come from abroad anyway and nowadays in all web browsers you can translate them automatically.

It's quite difficult to post something interesting from the daily studio life that doesn't mirror the content of my "online shop" page. At first I try to give a little more information about the paintings, their motives and other information. Later I will try to document a bit more about the creation process of the works.

The painting is my last work (end of March 2024). The motif comes from the botanical garden in Augsburg where I was visiting my family last year. It shows the delphinium and sage flowers in a border. I think that a rather uninteresting photo has not turned into a bad painting :).

Delphinium & sage

100x100 cm, Oil on Canvas, 2024

SPATIAL GEOMETRIC ABSTRACTIONS

With these paintings I have begun to deal with the spatial forms. In the first place I look at the composition of the individual and possibly more or less complex groups of geometric shapes, then I determine whether the shapes are transparent or opaque. The whole is rounded off with the selection of colors.
Decisive for me is also certain reduction of the selected colors and surfaces.

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Bei diesen Bildern habe ich angefangen mich mit der räumlichen Formen zu beschäftigen. Auf erster Stelle betrachte ich die Kompositorische Gestaltung der einzelnen und eventuell mehr oder weniger komplexen gruppen von geometrischer Formen, danach bestimme ich ob die Formen transparent oder undurchsichtig sind. Das ganze abgerundet wird mit der Auswahl der Farben.

Entscheidend für mich ist auch gewisse reduktion der ausgewählten Farben und Flächen.

Composition 32. - Red path

104x104 cm, Acryl on Canvas, 2023

Composition 31.

104x104 cm, Acryl on Canvas, 2023

Composition 30. - Rubin

104x104 cm, Acryl on Canvas, 2023

Composition 29. - Pyramidal

77,5x97,5 cm, Acryl on Canvas, 2022 SOLD

Composition 26. - Dissonance

104x104 cm, Acryl on Canvas, 2022

Composition 22.

103x134 cm, Acryl on Canvas, 2022

The Red Line

The recent events at the national and international level and the behavior of our politicians have inspired me to paint this picture. Almost all politicians and public figures constantly talk about a red line that should not be crossed, but are the first to cross the lines.

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Die jüngsten Ereignisse auf nationaler und internationaler Ebene und das Verhalten unserer Politiker haben mich dazu inspiriert, dieses Bild zu zeichnen. Fast alle Politiker und Persönlichkeiten des öffentlichen Lebens sprechen ständig von einer roten Linie, die nicht überschritten werden darf, sind aber die ersten, die diese Linie überschreiten.

87x207 cm, Oil on Canvas, 2022

New Abstract Paintings - in ACRYL

Due to the cramped conditions in my studio - too little space to dry the oil paintings, especially the large formats, I have thought to work with the acrylic paints and at the same time to paint the large formats without stretcher. As thought, so also made and here below the first three acrylic paintings. I have continued here the series of Geometric Abstractions, first of flat fields with reduced color palette. In addition, I have in mind to incorporate a three-dimensional depth and possibly perspective in the abstract images.

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Aufgrund der beengten Verhältnisse in meinem Atelier - zu wenig Platz zum Trocknen der Ölbilder, insbesondere der Großformate, habe ich mir überlegt, mit den Acrylfarben zu arbeiten und gleichzeitig die Großformate ohne Keilrahmen zu malen. Wie gedacht, so auch gemacht und hier unten die ersten drei Acrylbilder. Ich habe hier die Serie der Geometrischen Abstraktionen fortgesetzt, zunächst von flachen Feldern mit reduzierter Farbpalette. Außerdem habe ich im Sinn, eine dreidimensionale Tiefe und eventuell Perspektive in die abstrakten Bilder einzubauen.

Composition 18.

Acryl on Canvas, 103x103 cm, 2022

Composition 19.

Acryl on Canvas, 103x103 cm, 2022

Composition 20.

Acryl on Canvas, 134x103 cm, 2022

50's

I had an idea to paint abstract pictures with geometric design forms from the 50s. I realized the idea in the two paintings.

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Ich hatte eine Idee, abstrakte Bilder mit geometrischen Design-Formen aus den 50er Jahren zu malen. Die Idee habe ich in den zwei Bildern realisiert.

Composition 16.

68x128 cm, Oil on Canvas, 2022

Composition 17.

100x80 cm, Oil on Canvas, 2022

Garden in Giverny - inspired by Claude Monet

The gray sky and bad weather at the beginning of the year motivated me to paint a completely different landscape than the one behind the window. I decided to paint Monet's garden in Giverny, which appears in many variations in the paintings of Claude Monet.

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Der graue Himmel und das schlechte Wetter zu Beginn des Jahres motivierten mich, eine ganz andere Landschaft als die hinter dem Fenster zu malen. Ich entschied mich für den Garten von Monet in Giverny, der in den Gemälden von Claude Monet in vielen Variationen vorkommt.

Wisteria in Giverny

100x80 cm, Oil on Canvas, 2022

Summer in Giverny

128x68 cm, Oil on Canvas, 2022 SOLD

Composition 15.

120x120 cm , Oil on Canvas , 2022

Composition 14.

The continuation of my series of paintings with geometric abstractions in which the shapes and colors of what is seen should expand the inner world of the viewer with new spaces, dimensions and feelings.

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Die Fortsetzung meiner Bilderreihe mit geometrischen Abstraktionen in der die Formen und Farben des Gesehenen die innere Welt des Betrachters um neue Räume, Dimensionen und Gefühle erweitern sollen.

110x110 cm , Oil on Canvas , 2022. SOLD