Premiere for painting autodidacts - exhibition in the district court of Wolfratshausen

Created: 11/27/2022, 11:55 am

By: Andrea Weber

From IT specialist to painter: Gerhard Lindner is currently exhibiting in the Wolfratshausen district court.

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Gerhard Lindner, IT specialist, former mountaineer and creative painter, shows his landscape paintings in the district court.

Wolfratshausen - "It paints" is the title of the current exhibition on the upper floor of the Wolfratshausen district court.

It sounds like a Stephen King bestseller.

But for the artist Gerhard Lindner from Oberhaching, "It" is not the ominous clown "Pennywise" from the well-known thriller, but "the flow" that can arise when painting.

"It just doesn't work to transfer the image in your head to the canvas one-to-one like a photograph," the 67-year-old knows from experience.

Premiere for painting autodidacts - first exhibition in the district court

The exhibition mainly shows pictures from the Alps and the foothills of the Alps.

Mountains, lakes, valleys - minimalistically glazed or dissolved in cubic forms.

Lindner used to be a mountaineer, including the famous Bocchette trail in the Brenta Mountains.

Today, in retirement, the former IT specialist paints and photographs.

As an autodidact, he taught himself the artistic craft over many years.

He wanted perfection and had to admit that art doesn't work with coercion.

"Only when you can let go does this flow come about while painting." He has long since lowered his high standards.

"Today I paint what comes to my mind."

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Lindner drew inspiration from Lake Starnberg or the Alps

The acrylic paintings, mainly on large-format chipboard, have become minimalistic.

Soft, flowing landscapes, inspired by the Osterseen and Lake Starnberg, some two meters wide.

They are colors flowing into each other in a soft language of form, as if softened by the haze of the evening mood.

The image of the famous South Tyrolean mountain range "The Three Peaks", on the other hand, is angular, angular and as wild as the high alpine nature is in reality.

Only a few broad brushstrokes create the motif and tension.

The first exhibition for the creative artist

Lindner has never exhibited in public, so he is all the more pleased that he was given the opportunity at the Wolfratshausen district court through the contact of artist friend Claudia Rettinger.

"It's nice to see how my paintings have an effect in a public space."

Info: The exhibition "Es malt" by Gerhard Lindner on the upper floor of the Wolfratshausen District Court runs until the end of December.

Opening hours: Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.

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