Portraits
Portrait painting has always been a special mirror of its time. It experienced its heyday in the Italian early Renaissance through painters such as Piero della Francesca, Giovanni Bellini, or Botticelli.
What appeals to me about portraits is the verticality that opens up in each person – as an anchor in the world. And of course, the dialogue. The listening. The moment when people push open the door and enter the narrative space. Whether it’s artists like Franz WELSER-MÖST, start-up pioneers like Christian KAAR (runtastic), museum-makers like Klaus-Albrecht SCHRÖDER (Albertina), world-improvers like Monica CULEN (Rote Nasen), business people like Siemens-Chef Wolfgang HESOUN, adventurers like Hans WALLINGER or boundary-crossers like Bartholomäus RESCH – and whether it’s as text or as film or both – when their eyes sparkle, my heart sparkles too.
