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Alois Lichtsteiner

Alois Lichtsteiner (Born 1950) is active/lives in Switzerland.  Alois Lichtsteiner is known for Painting.

Born in 1950 im Ohmstal, Alois Lichtsteiner is today considered one of the most important Swiss exponents of post-figurative painting.  While representation is still his starting point, his pictures go beyond the reproduction of a naturalistic image, by treating the painting as an analogy of the subject in question.  Thus, Alois Lichtsteiner refers to the canvas as the “body” and the application of paint as the “skin”.  The subjects of his pictures, which range from body parts, to birch trees, to mountains, are consequently metaphors for that interrelationship.  Therefore, the snow-covered mountain landscape, which transforms into an abstract-like interplay of light and dark beyond the forest edge, acquires a particular significance in his oeuvre.

As a passionate mountaineer, Alois Lichtsteiner harks back to the associative potential of that pictorial landscape, which already in the 19th century was presented as the symbol of longing, although   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2081 characters.]  Artist bio

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