He is a well respected and well liked "Medico".
Harald is also a respected Artist and recently several of his works were exhibited in the Werner Berg Gallery in Bleiburg.
What makes Harald differ from so many of our modern Artists
is the fact that "things" Harald depicts
can actually be recognized without fancy explanations.
A flower is a flower, a tree is a tree
and a mother and child, is truly a "Mother and Child".
In all this "recognizability" however, lies a language with which
the picture speaks to the viewer, while drawing his eye inevitably
to its essence.
Although there is a mountain range in the background,
it is the birch tree which forces you to look at its torn bark
"The Children of Naples" show the unencumbered Joy
with which all children should be gifted.
Neither the cross in the background
nor the skull-like contraption up front
seems to prevent them from "being children."
This "Still-life with Fruit"
shows the artist from a totally different perspective.
The meticulous pattern of the cloth is maintained
despite the haphazard manner in which fruits, cups and jugs are placed upon it.
A sleeping child, a protective mother,
probably dreaming about the child's future.
All of it encapsulated in tones of Blue. The color of hope.
Hello, Harald! Where goest thou?
Straight into the vagaries of Cubism?
Although you call this work: "Dilapidated Barn"
all the woodwork is beautifully aligned, not a board askew.
There is "order" and "discipline" in this "dilapidation."
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