Josef Achmann, Walter Teutsch, Franz Reinhardt, Rudolf Kriesch
From November 2021
“Achmann's path leads from a painterly loose and a darkly tinted view of the early period to an increasingly simplified and linearly determined structure.(...)
Teutsch, who some time ago was retired from his teaching position at the Munich University of Fine Arts, gives his essence in those pictures in which people, animals and landscape sound together. (...)
Franz Reinhardt, who illustrated Meyrink's ‘Golem’ at the age of 13, has remained an illustrator, admittedly not with the drawing pen, but exclusively with watercolor. He is the wildling among the four, an impetuous temperament, who goes at the material provided by fairy tales and stories by Gogol, Balzac, Joseph Conrad with bold bright colors. When he disciplines himself, he achieves convincing effect.” (Süddeutsche Zeitung, November 29, 1954)
“Rudolf Kriesch proves in his work how closely and intimately the illustrative, the narrative, evaluative, the coincidence of adventures of visibility with the ‘joke’, that is, the spontaneous joy of your interpretation, is related to the essence of painting. The musicality of the line, the bold antitheses of color, the sensual magic, the what melting of the pastel, the delicious flow of the watercolor combine in the elegant virtuosity of his sheets to delightful capricci between show and play.” (Peter Trumm in the Münchner Merkur)