Hermann Lederle - ADAPTATION

This collection features "expressive hybrids" where original paintings by the artist are cut into strips and reconstructed into new, heavily textured compositions.

EXHIBITION AT ARTHEA 2015

Reminiscent of partially open Levelor blinds, a network of dense and narrow vertical bands sweep across the canvas. Without fully revealing it, the piece 'ADAPTATION' suggests an expanse of pictorial depth. It accommodates something that is turbulent and veiled, expressionistic and controlled. This balance suggests a mystery, a conundrum, a koan.

RE-IMAGINED

ADAPTATION 'EAU' & 'CIELO' QUAD
FACTORY ART 2020

Each piece is constructed from two original paintings on canvas, which are cut into stripes and reassembled on new canvases. You read it up and down, down and up, systematically working your way across.

ARTS DISTRICT

'OUT OF / INTO THE WOOD' at the Salon Arts District Los Angeles 2021

THE WORK

ADAPTATION
mixed media on canvas stripes over canvas, three panels, 66 by 120 inches (168 x 305 cm), 2015
KNOLL COLLECTION HEIDELBERG

'ADAPTATION' is massiv. Measuring five and a half feet by ten feet, this totemic monument doesn’t just envelop you, it anchors you to the ground.

Those vertical bands consist of the vivid and expressionistic decades-old paintings that Lederle has painstakingly hand-cut and then collaged onto the canvas, leaving just enough space so that the original marks show through as interstices of the canvas.

Adaptation looks backward to move forward. Without fully revealing it, the piece suggests an expanse of pictorial depth. It accommodates something that is turbulent and veiled, expressionistic and controlled.

The work corrals something prior and powerful, something that had once been deeply felt and is now remembered.

By James Scarborough

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ADAPTATION SEQUEL
mixed media on canvas stripes over canvas, two panels, 66 by 88 inches (168 x 224 cm), 2015
VELEZ SILVERMAN COLLECTION

ADAPTATION DREAM
mixed media on canvas stripes over canvas, 50 by 38 inches (127 x 96 cm), 2015
VERITIVA COLLECTION STUTTGART

The composition of this work is made up from three different canvases laid over a sketched up primary canvas. It was conceived as a counterpoint to be shown next to the much larger work of the three panel 'ADAPTATION' at its premier exhibition in 2015 in Germany. While in this painting a fuzzy figurative element clearly emerges, it is meant to playfully undermine the very purpose of the ADAPTATION series, the deliberate transformation of its figurative concept to an abstract one.

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ADAPTATION SPLIT
mixed media on canvas stripes over canvas, 50 by 38 inches (127 x 96 cm), 2015
BAZLEN COLLECTION SWITZERLAND

German artist Hermann Lederle is a visual composer of line, shape, and color. His gestural paintings lead the viewer across the canvas in a dance of vibrant hues and undulating forms. Often working at a large scale, Lederle treats the canvas as a space, moving across the perimeter of his works as he intuitively applies paint to the surface.

ADAPTATION NA NA
mixed media on canvas stripes over canvas, 50 by 38 inches (127 x 96 cm), 2016
VELEZ SILVERMAN COLLECTION

This work from the ADAPTATION SERIES combines two original paintings cut into stripes and reconstructed onto a singles canvas. The surface suggests it was uncovered through scraping and gashing of its heavily textured oil paint. By means of this, Lederle’s innovative composition and technique lays the groundwork for an evolution of new expressive hybrids.

BLACKSTAR
oil on linen stripes over canvas, 2 panels, 60 by 96 inches (152x244cm), 2021

END OF SUMMER
oil on linen stripes over canvas, 2 panels, 60 by 96 inches (152x244cm), 2020

WOODS
oil on canvas stripes over canvas, 40 by 60 inches (102x152cm), 2024

ADAPTATION 2016
Cielo, Eau & Terra

ADAPTATION CIELO EAST
oil, mixed media on canvas stripes over canvas, 38 by 66 inches (96 x 168 cm), 2016
S. CHENG COLLECTION

ADAPTATION CIELO WEST
oil, mixed media on canvas stripes over canvas, 38 by 66 inches (96 x 168 cm), 2016
S. CHENG COLLECTION

ADAPTATION EAU NORTH
oil, mixed media on canvas stripes over canvas, 38 by 66 inches (96 x 168 cm), 2016
S. CHENG COLLECTION

ADAPTATION EAU SOUTH
oil, mixed media on canvas stripes over canvas, 38 by 66 inches (96 x 168 cm), 2016
S. CHENG COLLECTION

ADAPTATION TERRA HIGH
oil, mixed media on canvas stripes over canvas, 38 by 66 inches (96 x 168 cm), 2016
VELEZ SILVERMAN COLLECTION

ADAPTATION TERRA LOW
oil, mixed media on canvas stripes over canvas, 38 by 66 inches (96 x 168 cm), 2016
VELEZ SILVERMAN COLLECTION

ADAPTATION PALETTE

ADAPTATION PALETTE
oil and gold leaf on paper stripes over canvas, 20 by 20 inches (51x51cm), 2019
HIRO LAZARS COLLECTION

HEADS STRIPES NY ONE
oil and gold leaf on paper stripes over canvas, 18 by 18 inches (46x46cm), 2026

HEADS STRIPES NY TWO
oil and gold leaf on paper stripes over canvas, 18 by 18 inches (46x46cm), 2026

HEADS BERLINA
oil and gold leaf on paper strips on canvas, 12 by 12 inches (30x30cm), 2025
BRITT TILLISCH COLLECTION

'INTO THE WOOD' & 'OUT OF THE WOOD' was created by cutting the original paintings on canvas into stripes and assembling the cuts onto a new canvas, creating a distinctive abstraction.

ADAPTATION 2020

OUT OF THE WOOD
oil on canvas stripes over canvas, 40 by 60 inches (102x152cm), 2020
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INTO THE WOOD
oil on canvas stripes over canvas, 40 by 60 inches (102x152cm), 2020
HIRO LAZARS COLLECTION

RIPPLES
oil/acrylic on canvas stripes over canvas, 40 by 60 inches (102x152cm), 2020
S. CHENG COLLECTION

BLOOM
oil/acrylic on canvas stripes over canvas, 40 by 60 inches (102x152cm), 2020
S. CHENG COLLECTION

THE INSTALLATIONS

END OF SUMMER 2020
Through its stripes of linen canvas assembled onto the canvas panels, revokes and reveals with playful intend a transformation of PIXEL Impressionism

WOODS 2024

Breakaway Pixels combined with cut strips of layered canvas emphasizing a suggestive 3D scape

BLACKSTAR 2021

There's a continuum in 'ADAPTATION' - these reassembled stripes, forever expanding like a black star

ARTHEA GALLERY OPENING 2015

ARTHEA GALLERY EXHIBITION 2015

MAKE OF ADAPTATION

EXHIBITION HOLLYWOOD 2017

APPARENT OPPOSITES EXHIBITION 2017

ARTHEA GALLERY EXHIBITION 2015 - APPARENT OPPOSITES EXHIBITION 2017

HOLLYWOOD STUDIO - FACTORY LOFT - PRIVATE COLLECTION

RIPPLES AND BLOOM IN PROGRESS 2020

APPARENT OPPOSITES
The installation of an exhibition by three artists Jay Silverman, Cora Silverman and Hermann Lederle curated by Susan Velez on March 22, 2017 in Hollywood

'ADAPTATION' - THE MAKING OF... AND PREVIEW OF 'ADAPTATION' 2016

ADAPTATION ‘CIELO EAST’ by Hermann Lederle | 2016 served as an inspiration/visualization for composer Steffen Wick to produce Crosscurrents. The art piece is constructed from two original paintings on canvas, which are cut into stripes and reassembled on new canvases.

Almost metaphorically speaking the composer states this.

Composition 2.1 – two composers – one work

The unusual combination of large brass ensemble and symphony orchestra follows the rare combination of two composers working on one piece (Steffen Wick & Florian Ross). Crosscurrents explores the possibilities of compositional collaboration and brings together different musical styles. Distinct musical islands are interlinked and enable the entering of unknown terrain.

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ARTHEA GALLERY OPENING 2015

ARTHEA GALLERY EXHIBITION 2015

MAKE OF ADAPTATION

EXHIBITION HOLLYWOOD 2017

APPARENT OPPOSITES EXHIBITION 2017

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