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Christoph Drexler

Christoph Drexler is first and foremost a landscape painter, but he is not interested in the diversity  of natural phenomena, the landscape is rather an ideal means to an end -he is fascinated above all by light and color in connection with pictorial space and compositional forms. Drexler usually arranges only a few objects on his minimalist panels, clearly and precisely, often two or three houses in a sparsely designed environment. Or he moves close to a house, as if with a telephoto lens, selects a detail, cuts the roof, gable or wall as if deliberately framing a photograph.

Christoph Drexlers landscapes, although often small in format, breathe vastness; foreground, middle ground and background unfold clearly; with a certain stage-like quality, they are reminiscent of the surreal tableaux of Giorgio de Chirico, then again of the works of  the Blue Rider in the bavarian alpine foothills. However, these are not models, but at best sources of inspiration, points of reference within the history of 20th century painting; this is the echo chamber in which the artist moves autonomously.

 

Moritz Holfelder

Exhibitions

  1. Group Exhibition Layers of the land

    Brussels November 11 — December 20, 2025

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