Herbert Brandl *

(Graz 1959–2025 Vienna)
Untitled, signed and dated on the reverse H. Brandl 2005 and with archive designation on the gallery label HB05LED, oil on canvas, 200 x 300 cm, on metal stretcher
Provenance:
Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Rosemarie Schwarzwälder (label on the reverse)
Private Collection, USA

... Landscape-oriented images are associated with scenery. Any horizontal line is interpreted as a horizon. Unfortunately, that’s just the way it is - it always throws you off.
I always wanted to avoid the landscape, but boom, boom, there’s that horizon again. Then I get annoyed and try to break it. …I don’t know why I continually return to landscape motifs, why I keep removing the figures, why such solitude must prevail.
Wolfgang Kos in dialogue with Herbert Brandl

Excerpt from:
Alpenblick – Die zeitgenössische Kunst und das Alpine, Kunsthalle, Vienna 1997