Leopold Ganzer - Naturabstraktion

Leopold Ganzer (1933–2021) developed over several decades a distinctive pictorial language between observation of nature and abstraction, and with his colourful, luminous, high-contrast, abstracted landscape depictions he offers us a new and multifaceted view of the diverse beauty of the Tyrolean landscape. After his studies at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts under Robin Christian Andersen and attending the evening life drawing class with Herbert Boeckl, he combined constructive clarity with an increasingly free, expressive formal language. In the 1960s and 1970s, however, geometric forms, tubes and machine-like motifs still shaped his painting. Clear structures and a functional, reduced pictorial language reflect the influences of contemporary geometric art. From the 1980s onward, Ganzer's artistic mode of expression changed.