Hermann Standl (1964)

Hermann Standl

Hermann Standl is a German contemporary painter. Stylistically, his work can be located between the Neue Wilden, Concrete Art and Pop Art. The artistic oeuvre of Hermann Standl is complex and runs between the poles of abstraction and figuration. His examination of the components of the picture composition, colour, form and space, always remained central. At the beginning of his work, shortly after he left the art academy, he created the lattice paintings. On individual wooden slats, Hermann Standl painted figures in a gestural manner, which, based on the Junge Wilden, convey topoi from everyday existence. Preferred topics were the relationship between humans and their environment or social issues that were topical in the 1990s. Not without an artistic wink, he explores the philosophical limits of the concept of home in a globalized world. The large-format paintings that he created around 2009 bear witness to this confrontation with his Bavarian country of origin. Entirely in the style of Pop Art, Hermann Standl combined iconographic elements of Korean culture, such as the hummingbird, with the landscapes we are familiar with in Germany. The complete break with the figurative painting style came a few years later: Herman Standl's paintings now consist exclusively of geometric shapes and colors. By playing these off against each other and setting them apart, he explores the limits of the visual: Dark colors set against light create dynamics, concrete forms form the pictorial space.