78 ATIM’S TOP 60 MASTERS 2023
JOSEF WEIDNER “A
“Primeval Giants” 2012 Acrylic on Canvas, 58.2”x36.6”
Josef-weidner.de
‘Where great forces mature and express
themselves in their highest violence, there are the times of art.’ This sentence by the art writer Wilhelm Heinse is valid for the artist in three ways: it is the forces of the ‘inner artistic urge’ to practice art; it is the forces that have to be invested for this purpose and finally, the forces that are released in
“Im Garten Eden” 2022 Acrylic Paint and Oil Pastel on Canvas, 59”X34”
“Cogito Ergo Sum” 2018 Oil Paint on Canvas, 39”x55”
s an art-interested teenager, I saw impressive examples of modern and classical art in museums in Munich, Düsseldorf, Amsterdam, Washington, and New York, which had a lasting impact on my artistic work.”
the creative process. This artistic maxim of the “Sturm and Drang” applies to his self-expression. He reveals against the absolute rule of reason and emphasizes the emotional world. Josef Weidner’s paintings are characterized as surreal abstraction and, at the same time, abstract Surrealism, presenting the viewer with an uncommon variety of forms and structures placed on different painting surfaces. In doing so, the figurativeness of classical Surrealism is deliberately dispensed. The abstract compositional elements present in the artworks are characterized by formal references to organics and geometry. They lend the artworks a surreal quality of their own. They give the paintings an Independent surreal Impression. For him, four essential prerequisites define a work of art.
