Josef Florian Krichbaum | REMIX SERIES

My work is dedicated to the artists who were “cutting the edges” of figurative painting and drawing scenes at the Art Academy in Vienna.
Vienna, The place where famous artists like Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and many essential figures started their way a hundred years ago, also, great contemporary masters like Erwin Wurm made their first steps.

In my art, two entirely different topics come together: art skills and “DNA” of Old Masters artistic style, which I do not only imitate but, moreover, try to feel and re-invent, to transfer it into my world and the 21st century. This Old Masters artistic style and technique are being combined with the second part of my cultural interest, which is comics, urban art, and pop surrealism.

I am telling whimsical stories about society and human nature in different psychological situations. I specialized in very small-scale, detailed oil/egg tempera paintings, heavily influenced by the Old Masters like Pieter Bruegel combined with comics.

In the last year, I tried to combine Old Master’s oil painting with Spray Stencil technique as Banksy, which seems strange, but works! The stencils are made from other paintings taken from my oeuvre; therefore, I call it “Remix Series.”

ARTWORKS IN PRIVATE COLLECTIONS:

Josef Florian Krichbaum’s artworks are in respectable art collections around the globe, including, at the collection of Albertina Wien, The Austrian National Bank, The Country of Upper Austria, Trierenberg Traun, and Private Collections in A, D, GB, NL, USA, SWE, CZ, PL.

SPECIAL PROJECTS AND EXHIBITIONS:

In the past 15 years, Josef Florian Krichbaum exhibited in over 100 galleries, museums and art fairs around the world, including Vienna, Graz, Upper Austria, Tyrol, Styria, Amsterdam, London, Stockholm, Den Bosch, Copenhagen, Malmö, Hamburg, Cologne, Frankfurt/M, Wiesbaden, Cesky Krumlov.

FEATURED IN ART FAIRS:

Discovery Artfair Cologne, D
Arte Wiesbaden Artfair, D
Artfair s’Hertogenbosch, NL
Art Austria Vienna, A
Discovery Artfair Frankfurt, D
Affordable Artfair Stockholm, SWE
Nordic Art Artfair Copenhagen, DK
PAN Amsterdam, NL
Realisme Amsterdam, NL

Read the full Article on Art Market Magazine Issue #47