Johann Brandstetter

Painter, draftsman, illustrator, I design my "works of life" with classic as well as with new techniques and create such multi -layered picture worlds. With my art, I call for a new view of ecological systems and the role that humans play in it. By rekinding the boundaries between art and science, I ask myself the question of the meaning of art as a process of observation of nature. My ideas arise on trips and excursions, quasi "Plein Air", from the view and deepening into the specifically natural level. From these observations and experiences, I hold my “material” in sketches and emergency in travel diaries. The actual creative process, the transfer to an image composition as its own picturesque language, finally takes place in the studio. I do not follow the exact observation of nature alone, it is only part of the artistic work process. Rather, it is my concern to make the highly complex processes and symbioses of nature visually understandable. I am concerned with the essentials in the word sense and so I take the viewer on my trip.