Michael Mutschler
Michael Mutschler is a German artist who has become known in recent years for his contemporary expressionist paintings and sculptures. He was recently asked at an art fair what inspires him: "I am very interested in the emotional moods that drive people. Uncovering the actual motives for action of each individual," he says, "is best done with the artistic means of Expressionism.
His pictorial works span a wide cosmos of political and psychological levels of reference. Michael has been marketing his images very successfully on Instagram since 2019 - over 3,400 followers on Instagram and around 1,200 on Facebook link to and comment on his picture stories, which tell of love between (old) people, of anger and despair, of refuge and death, but also of dance and sexuality. "I work specifically with colours and perspectives", the painter says, "in order to create a connection to the viewer through the picture". He finds it particularly exciting how the viewers of his online community would have changed his work again. The pictures have become bigger and bigger over the years, meanwhile Michael often paints on canvases of 1 m length or bigger. " Because I start to paint out of a spontaneous impulse, the gesture, the generous and large scale is particularly important in my art," the artist explains. In his studio at home there are often ten paintings side by side. He works artistically almost every day - if it's not working on a current painting, he plasticizes in the nearby ceramics studio. Here, too, the expressionistic design is in the spotlight.
But Michael cannot deny his past as an art teacher - even today he still regularly teaches children and adults. He also feels committed to Joseph Beuys, whose pupil Michael took lessons with at the Kunstakademie Stuttgart. "Beuys said: every person is an artist," he explains, "that's above all an attitude to life. Anyone I can help to achieve a touch of art in life, more empathy and imagination, makes me feel happy on a personal level.
As an artist who grew up in post-war Germany and in what he calls an "emotionally aseptic environment", expressionist painting remains the most important stylistic vehicle of the last hundred years. "Basically, I would like to continue with my art where a Grosz, a Beckmann, a Picasso once left off - the history of Expressionism is still not finished even after 100 years. Whether it's socio-critical themes or the confrontation with oneself - according to Michael, the world of the 21st century in particular needs a concept of art that puts emotionality more in the foreground again: "If I disturb a viewer and make him think, even if I upset him, then my art has achieved its goal," says Michael. After New York, Leipzig, and Paris in 2019, his frequently large-format works will be shown in exhibitions and at art fairs in Paris, Cologne, Dresden, and Sindelfingen in 2020. Further exhibitions are planned.
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