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In 2024, the Freising artist Lars Herrmann will deal with the history of Saint Corbinian. He paints with a ballpoint pen.
The artist Lars Herrmann paints with heart and soul – and the claim to make the shadow gaps of being comprehensible. © Lorenz
Freising – His works are many things in equal measure: fantastic wide-angle shots of soul gaps, fragile confrontations with life and death, as well as mysterious gems full of shimmering close-ups. The artist Lars Herrmann paints the way poets write their poems: always with heart and soul, and the claim to make the shadow gaps of being comprehensible. The extraordinary painter has been living in Freising for seven years. For the anniversary year 2024, he now also wants to deal with the history of Saint Corbinian and his journey through Europe.
Poetic notes with a ballpoint pen
They are always poetic notes that can be found in Herrmann's paintings, in text or subtext, hidden or quite obvious: works that are off-the-beaten-path and yet central, full of dreamlike nuances. No other artist in Freising succeeds in this magical realism as well as Herrmann, who has not been able to make a living from his works for a long time for nothing. The 55-year-old likes to work with a utensil that is very unusual for the scene: a ballpoint pen.
Favourite places: The Isar and the Domberg are combined here – and also encrypted. © Lorenz
The advantage of the brush: Herrmann never has to stop for a line and can thus combine dream and reality with delicate strokes without a visible break. Of course, his works are not scribbles, but fine and fragile perspectives that only become clear on closer inspection what he used to create them.
At the age of 18 there were first works
Herrmann started with his ballpoint pen pictures at an early age, probably at the age of 18, as the artist recalls in an FT interview. However, his great talent in the field of fine arts had already been recognized much earlier, which is why the artist, who was born in the Ore Mountains, was allowed to attend a drawing academy in the former GDR – a kind of promotion of highly gifted students. Herrmann can only vaguely remember exactly when he started painting and drawing, or as he puts it: "Actually, it always has been." Since 2004, the art historian has been able to make a living from his work, in a phase around 2008 also through the support of an art patron.
Brother Abbo is the name of this study, which Hermann created – inspired by the novel "The Name of the Rose". © Lorenz
What Herrmann deals with in his works is not so easy to describe, although mythology is also a topic that drives him from time to time – and which he then formulates in his works in his very own way. But it can also simply be the trees on the Isar, short memory photographs, to which he later gives shape and color.
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The look into the human being
But one thing is clearly noticeable: Herrmann looks into the people and thus into the souls, gives a face to the remote and a hope to the lost. In this way, the artist also becomes a chronicler of shadows and twilight per se, but always with a literary undertone. A good example of this is his works about the protagonists from the novel "The Name of the Rose" by Umberto Eco, which function on different narrative levels. Everything that touches him in any way, whether it's a song by "The Cure", a story by Lovecraft or just a look out of the window, can inspire him and flow into a work. Just like the upcoming Freising Corbinian Year 2024, because here Herrmann wants to deal with the saint and his travels through Europe for the first time. In general, he likes Freising extremely well as a relatively new home, especially because the cathedral city also has a lot to offer in the field of art history.
His favourite places: the Isar and the Cathedral Hill with St. Mary's Cathedral and the crypt. Much of it flows into his works somehow and at some point, often encoded and thus given a new meaning. Herrmann likes that, because for him his pictures are only one thing: windows into another world to inspire people. "If that succeeds," says Herrmann, "then I would have achieved a lot."
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If you would like to learn more about the Freising artist Lars Herrmann, you can do so online at www.lars-herrmann.net