ENG · In front of the painter’s eyes, mother nature spreads her arms. Light and shadow undergo their daily challenge in search of total harmony. Step by step the painting is reaching its final form and greatness. Green meets red – spontaneity changes with calculated expressionism. Form and colour – light and shadow have to create a perfect union. With an acceleration of warm and cold colours, the final deepness emerges out of the work. The haven immerses in cobalt blue and ultramarine for synchronizing with a pale-pink sound of a higher dimension. All this ends up in a realised ochre or Terra de Siena. Chrome yellow in the center of the artist’s creation is held by a gentle breeze of light violet.
Speaking in terms of the artist Erich Weger-Wladimir, each of his painting should invite for an active game of vital and reserved colours – background and foreground - abstract forms and concrete ones. Art is spirituality and claims highest concentration for the painter and the observer as well.
Each of the creator’s master-pieces reveals 50 years of intensive work and studies at the Berlin University of Fine Art. Already his professor, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, detected in Erich Weger-Wladimir the talent of a great artist – consistent but progressive. More and more the painter creates his own stile of expression.
Travels to East-Europe and Scandinavia – several expeditions to India and Iraq, manifested by the daily work in Germany during years, culminate finally in Spanish and Catalan impressions at all. And always overtakes the childhood of World War II the scenario.
It is winter 1945 – the last days of a never ending suffering. The endless caravan of expellees on its way back to Germany. Pictures of desolation mix up with warm-hearted feelings of his family.
When king Gilgamesh wakes up from his night’s lodging, his shadow crawls out of Uruk and Badtibira, for taking testimony of his devastated earth. The last steps to the top of the ziqqurrat change with the majesty of Novgorod and Sagorsk, brightened by their timeless monasteries and only completed with the northern tundra. Cast shadow and a new variety of colours lead now to a more intensive expression.
Pastel character makes its spring-time-jokes with almond-trees. Light flows through Catalonia’s vales spending a new everlasting life. Each day is a new invitation to create, to meditate – to understand what a painter can give to mankind. Landscapes turn into faces – faces become abstract visions joined in light and shadow by the artist’s experienced brush-mark.
Thomas Weger
