Helmut Koller American Contemporary
EQUINE Art
Helmut Koller is an Austrian artist based in Palm Beach, Florida. As a professional photographer, he spent his early career capturing important ďŹ gures of the opera and ballet and contributing to fashion magazines. Koller abandoned photography for painting in 1988 and yet the style that he has now established does not depart too far from his roots as a photographer. Koller has an extensive body of work of photorealistic paintings depicting animals. This realism is hindered by a striking alteration to the animal’s fur. Rather than what we predict the animal’s colors to be, Koller paints them in saturated, synthetic hues. This ranging color application to various species from the animal kingdom has been designated the title Kollerism.
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