untitled
2016, oil on canvas, 150 x 300 cm
* January 17, 1959, in Graz
† July 17, 2025, in Vienna
Studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna under Herbert Tasquil and Peter Weibel. From 2004 to 2019, Herbert Brandl held a professorship at the Düsseldorf Art Academy.
Herbert Brandl. Koralm Killaz
Herbert Brandl discovered the monotype technique because, according to his own statements, he always had a problem with the high print runs of graphic prints and monotype had the advantage of a unique transfer from plate to paper. In monotype, a glass plate is usually painted or marked and printed on paper while the colors are still wet. This technique is ideal for the artist's painterly intentions, as it allows him to work in a similarly dynamic way as in painting. “It is a pulsating process between applying and wiping away paint. This creates light and space, horizons, mountains and knives, landscape structures. The process-like application of paint in a flow is based on experience in painting.”
Brandl now works with a special oil paint on two acrylic plates, which are not cleaned after the printing process but instead carry the image of the previous print over into the next picture as a shadow. This phantom print means that each sheet is, in a sense, directly related to the previous one. However, it is not only the shadows of the past that must be considered, but also the transfer itself, in which the image is reproduced upside down and the top layer of paint on the plate is the bottom layer on the paper. Each sheet is thus a complex composition of light and shadow, trace and memory, impression and imprint, and thus landscape and abstraction.
Text excerpt Roman Grabner, 2013
Exhibition view at Galerie Gölles Herbert Brandl
Series Koralm Killaz
untitled
2012, monotype, oil paint on Lana handmade paper 640 g/m², 130 x 236 cm
Ausstellungen
Museum exhibitions (selection)
• 1985 – Biennale de Paris, Paris
• 1986 – Hacken im Eis, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Wien; Kunsthalle Bern, Bern
• 1992 – documenta IX, Kassel
• 1993 – Der zerbrochene Spiegel. Positionen zur Malerei, Kunsthalle Wien; Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
• 2002 – Painting on the Move, Kunsthalle Basel, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel
• 2004 – NEUE WILDE – Eine Entwicklung, Essl Museum – Kunst der Gegenwart, Klosterneuburg/Wien
• 2006 – Österreich: 1900–2000. Konfrontationen und Kontinuitäten, Essl Museum – Kunst der Gegenwart, Klosterneuburg/Wien
• 2007 – Biennale di Venezia, Österreichischer Pavillon, Venedig
• 2007 – Passion for Art, Essl Museum – Kunst der Gegenwart, Klosterneuburg/Wien
• 2008 – KOMPLEX. Österreichische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Essl, Essl Museum – Kunst der Gegenwart, Klosterneuburg/Wien
• 2008 – Meisterwerke der Sammlung Essl, Essl Museum – Kunst der Gegenwart, Klosterneuburg/Wien
• 2009 – Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
• 2010 – Berge und Landschaften, Albertina, Wien
• 2010 – Bilder und Arbeiten auf Papier, Galerie Noah, Augsburg
• 2010 – CORSO. Werke der Sammlung Essl im Dialog, Essl Museum – Kunst der Gegenwart, Klosterneuburg/Wien
• 2012 – Bank Austria Kunstforum, Wien
• 2012 – Kunsthalle Emden
• 2012 – Altana Kulturstiftung, Bad Homburg
• 2012 – Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg/Wien
• 2015 – Homelandjoe and the holy Bauernmonos, Greith-Haus, St. Ulrich i. Gr./Steiermark
• 2017 – Museum Franz Gertsch „Hyänenpause“
• 2017 – Palace Milesi and Art Gallery Kula in Split – „Super Wetter, Dobar Dan“
• 2020 – Kunsthaus Graz „Morgen“
• 2020 – Künstlerhaus Graz „24/7“