untitled 2011

"I decide from a certain moment on completely intuitively, without thinking... the moment where you completely leave this idea that you have built up there, that's the most exciting thing." (Herbert Brandl)

This oil painting was created in 2011, the composition consists largely of several layers of superimposed, powerful brushstrokes in the primary colors of red and blue. Like no other, the artist knows how to create an incredible glow, an impressive picture-inherent light, through color alone, and to create an almost dizzying mobility in the dynamic brushwork. The lower half of the painting is shrouded in a mystical darkness, while in the middle and upper thirds the admixture of white creates streaks of light. The red brushstrokes flit across the painting like northern lights. We witness an incredible spectacle of nature, an explosion of color in which Herbert Brandl's affinity for the light painting of Claude Monet and William Turner certainly comes into play. But in the end it is the "monumental color spaces" , it is pure painting, which here develops a dramatic life of its own before our eyes.