TEXT ARCHIVE

Perspectives on painting.

Artist statements and contributions from critics, gallery owners and companions. The years refer to when the texts were written.

Gallery LDXArtodrome | 2013

Heinz Aschenbrenner’s artistic beginnings lay in the circle of Hermann Nitsch and Viennese Actionism. He developed this approach further…

It seems almost a paradox to take the gestural expression born of movement in Hermann Nitsch’s actions and bring it under conscious control…

“Aschenbrenner is a go getter, with strong almost monochrome brushstrokes he achieves effective three dimensionality…”

…with Heinz Aschenbrenner, something else drives the painter and his work: pictorial events thrown onto the canvas as explosions of feeling…

SUN-YELLOW wolves crawl across linen paper.…

“I got to know Aschenbrenner as a young art collector with a tremendous capacity and enthusiasm for art…”

After years of intensive study of Viennese Actionism, especially with Nitsch, I have reached a form of expression that emerges from movement…

“i was able to help heinz aschenbrenner develop from an art collector into a good painter…”