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Ohne Titel, 2026, 40 x 50 cm, Öl auf Leinwand
"These works pictorially intermix the inner and outer life. Within the act of painting, figurative objects are impulsively deconstructed while contents are intensified. Glaring surfaces are revealed by sharp incisions and turned into unexpected forms while new contexts arise. The oeuvre of Claus Brunsmann of the past 20 years is of significant matter and characterised by an increasing density. This concentration of energy provokes the artist into the unleashing of colour, creating an unmistakable power in the works of a painter who’s recurrent topic has been the role of art as the incarnation of ritual and spirituality."
Stephan von Wiese
Claus Brunsmann, Ohne Titel, 2026, 100 x 100 cm, Öl auf Leinwand
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Ohne Titel, 2020, 60 x 40 cm, Öl auf Leinwand
Ohne Titel, 2020, 60 x 40 cm, Öl auf Leinwand
Ohne Titel, 2026, 30 x 40 cm, Öl auf Leinwand
Ohne Titel, 2020, 60 x 40 cm, Öl auf Leinwand
Claus Brunsmann, Ohne Titel, 2020, 60 x 60 cm, Öl auf Leinwand
Ohne Titel, 2026, 50 x 60 cm, Öl auf Leinwand
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Claus Brunsmann, Ohne Titel, 2020, 60 x 60 cm, Öl auf Leinwand (private collection)
Untiteld (Fugitive Embankments), 2026, 100 x 100 cm, Öl auf Leinwand
Ohne Titel, 2026, 25 x 30 cm, Öl auf Leinwand
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Painting, looked at from an historical point of view, may be seen as a cultural tool of memory. If it is, then the most diverse levels of this subjective consciousness that we call ‘reality’ converge in Claus Brunsmann's paintings.
They are characterised by individual layering and repeated coalescing of internal and external images – our personal universe, across which we peek into neighbouring worlds, parts of which we absorb, connect, maintain, omit or develop further in our minds. In this way, a subtle vibration of meaning occurs – corresponding to the physical properties and effects of light.
From: 'Distorted Memories Of Nature', Kerber Publishers, 2015, Berlin
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Ohne Titel, 2018, Öl auf Leinwand, 50 x 60 cm
Ohne Titel, 2018, 40 x 60 cm, Öl auf Leinwand
Ohne Titel, 2016, Öl auf Leinwand, 50 x 60 cm
| Claus Brunsmann uses oils to paint large, abstract canvases with bright colors. He refers back to a conception of history that is a legacy of German idealism, and therefor of ist Romantic aesthetic, according to wich the artist reveals interior truths, and unexpected perspective an cognitive modes, to the world. The process of ‚revelation’ is manifest in the layers of the painting, wich assumes the character of the overlapping patches and thus also of memory at the same time erased and unveiled by the appearance and disappearance of color. The nature of the self and of things becomes the principal field on wich the painting itself insists: the observer is called upon to perform the same journey indicated and practised by the artist, penetrating gradually into the color systems of the painting and beeing gradually sucked into it: first of all he is strucke by the most superficial layers, then he perceives the less evident ones, and so on, through a way of looking that must develop in time and therefore an attitude that is both contemplative and active. The artist thus intends to provide an extremely synthetic position eith regards to history, in full agreement with the premise of Romantic idealism: history as a temporal development in wich the spectator is also he who experiences it and helps to build it.
Angela Vettese / "Meisterschule", Editione Charta, Milano, 1997
Ohne Titel, 2014, 160 x 150 cm, Öl auf Leinwand
Ohne Titel, 2016, Öl auf Leinwand, 60 x 70 cm
Ohne Titel, 2017, Öl auf Leinwand, 60 x 70 cm
Claus Brunsmann, Ohne Titel, 2020, Öl auf Leinwand, 200 x 200 cm |
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Ohne Titel, 2026, 40 x 40 cm, Öl auf Leinwand
Claus Brunsmann’s paintings investigate the relationships between colors, their contrasts, their inner tensions and harmonies.
This interplay of structures is complex enough to invoke imagined horizons, figures and sceneries….
Into this constellation Brunsmann adds a minimal twist, which opens a completely new perspective for the painting.
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Stefan Winter |
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Ohne Titel, 2018, Öl auf Leinwand, 70 x 105 cm |
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