Hermann Lederle is a German-born contemporary artist and film director based in Los Angeles. He is widely recognized for his innovative BREAKAWAY multi-layered PIXEL technique and abstract BEAUTIFUL CHAOS canvas scapes. THE SALON BLOG →
'Imagine Claude Monet's pastel Poplars... if Monet was working 100 years later and spent a lot of time on the internet... you get somewhere close to the work of Lederle.' The latest series entails a two-stage process, where at first a graduated color is applied with a traditional brush allowing for the distinct qualities of its stroke to emerge.
This collection features "expressive hybrids" where original paintings by the artist are cut into strips and reconstructed into new, heavily textured compositions
Lederle’s painting evoke a variety of associations based on an elementary, geometrical vocabulary: circles, grids, squares and stripes. Then there is also a representation of figurative content.
The WHITE SERIES paintings suggest a reality of transcending portraiture and opaque anecdotes in a near white-out brilliant existence where subject and form disintegrate in a visual grandeur.
Figure vs. form, phrase vs. color. The artist tries to dispose of the formation of concepts. He doesn't like it to intercede. Lederle deals with the conceptual at its trivial level - defining the ability to lay out.
While it might jolt to see this painting added to the works usually associated with the artist Hermann Lederle, it quite certainly exposes his desire to use a transfiguring paint technique elevating the subject to beyond what is literally there. It begs the question, is it a portrait or a symphony of color and paint?
This Limited Edition Serigraph series by Artist Hermann Lederle was produced at Fine Art Printing House Hans-Peter Haas in Stuttgart Germany over a span of four years. Here at the atelier HPH Siebdruck, known for its outstanding quality silkscreen print editions of renowned artists worldwide, Hans-Peter Haas has forged the Serigraphs by Lederle titled COLORBLOTS, COLORWEAVES, COLORSWEEPS, COLORNOTES and COLORFINITS.
Lederle’s work bridges the gap between the "blots-pointillism" of Neo-Impressionists and modern digital imagery. His "Beautiful Chaos" scapes are multifunctional; they are both "atmospheric moods" and "next-generation art-scapes" that challenge how we perceive the boundaries between realism and abstraction. Critics see in his work a celebration of "the universe's fundamental opposition to closure," where figures remain ambiguous, constantly evaporating and materializing across the canvas. One would you like to examine how his filmmaking background specifically informs the "stop and go rhythm" of his "Adaptation" compositions, or explore his earlier German Expressionist influences.
Lederle's artistic evolution is showcased through this exhibition at HPH gallery of COLORBLOTS serigraph collection, reinforcing his reputation in the contemporary print art scene.
Special Exhibition featuring limited serigraphs of Hans-Peter Haas Siebdruck. Celebrating 60+ years of Fine Art Serigraphs of world renowned artists from Germany, Europe and USA, including a selection of serigraphs by Hermann Lederle.
The German painter, who now resides in Los Angeles, gives impressionism a contemporary inflection. Where before wispy brushstrokes and springtime hues ruled, Lederle works in the colors and shapes of our time. His paintings have an edge to them and an electric energy pulsing throughout. Lederle creates his 3-D effect by first painting with a traditional brush and then reworking it with a painter's knife, giving the paint a contradictory texture. Lederle's paintings capture how it feels to see in the modern world. Waterlilies are replaced with welcome screens and rolling sunsets with flashing advertisements. But there is a beauty to this contemporary image of seeing, even if it is a little sharp around the edges.
After his studies, he lived for a few years in New York, more precisely in the famous artificial district TriBeCa. Artists like Andy Warhol and Basquiat. During this time, his painting style was expressionist and still strongly figurative. But Hermann Lederle has yet another talent and passion - Due to his film studies and due to various offers, he leaves New York and goes to California, the home of the film and works in Los Angeles for various studios as a director and producer. For example, he worked as a production designer for the Blackbox Studio Room in Hollywood or created collages and concepts for commercials and short films. During this time, however, his painting activity does not rest at all. It is the other light, the other landscape and, of course, the experience of filming that flow into his art. In his studio in Hollywood, increasingly abstract works are being created - color fields reminiscent of kaleidoscopes, broken with natural and floral elements that give the images movement and dynamics. In another series of pictures, he applies a two-stage process in which he cuts up old works and reassembles their parts. This creates a completely new work. Another method is to apply color areas and later gradually expose the paint layers gradually with a brush or a knife, taking into account the respective shape. This creates dazzling and shimmering patterns and lines and the canvas looks three-dimensional...
