The mountain is one of Herbert Brandl’s most significant motifs. He skillfully alternates between abstraction and realism and is able to surprise it with ever new variations of this topos charged with attributions.
With a reduced, carefully chosen palette of colours, the artist creates fascinating, atmospherically condensed mountain motifs, reminiscent of French painters of the 1950s such as Pierre Soulage and Simon Hantaї. His confrontation with Far Eastern painting dicourses and -practices becomes visible in his gestural brush traces, which unfold powerfully on the handmade paper.