Watercolour – Andreas Felger Kulturstiftung

OEUVRE / WATERCOLOUR

The group of watercolours, which has been created since the mid-1970s, is the most extensive group of works in Andreas Felger’s oeuvre. The sheets range from the smallest to panel-size formats, from landscapes and nature studies to abstract compositions. Thus, watercolour in its diversity shows the full range of Felger’s themes and his vocabulary of artistic expression.

Working with the luminous, transparent watercolours allows a spontaneous, free style of painting. At the same time, it calls for a sovereign painter, as the technique does not allow for revision. Since 1985, he has been creating the landscapes that have had a lasting influence on Felger’s work: Geometric structures that enter into an interplay with the landscape view. They form a unity, which for Felger also represents a unity of everything earthly. The individual fields of the composition become formally independent without losing their cohesion. They are the transition to the later focus of his painting in general, to abstraction.

His working method and characteristic style of watercolour painting are closely linked to continuous sketching and drawing. Sketchbooks and pencil studies accompany Andreas Felger in everyday life, in the studio and on his many travels.

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