About Reinhard Stammer

    Reinhard Stammer in his studio in front of “Catwoman”
    200 × 260 cm · 2011

    Art without filter. Emotion as color. “Every line carries the memory of a storm.” Karl Kinsky

    For Reinhard Stammer, painting is not a means of describing the world, but a form of exploration. His works emerge from memory, experience, and the attempt to give form to the invisible. Layer by layer, paintings evolve, in which personal experiences meet universal themes such as transience, vulnerability, hope, and transformation.


    Artistic Position – The nature of Reinhard Stammer’s work stands at the threshold between Art Brut and Neo-Expressionism.

    What was born from the unconscious as “raw art” in Jean Dubuffet’s time transforms in Stammer’s work into a consciously lived, artistically reflected principle. His painting remains untamed, yet it speaks the language of experience. Stammer does not paint to please or to explain. He paints to survive, to remember, to transform. For him, color becomes emotion, line becomes a trace, surface becomes inner space. His figures, signs, and fragments are like archaeological layers of a soul – remnants of experiences, wounds, insights.

    Searching for a sense, made me not look better 40 x 30 cm on paper 1968

    Shoot with AxelRuske for the book “Great Artists of Mallorca”, releasedin 2025 Concept: Artist portrait and their works. Photo and copyright by Axel Ruske

    His works preserve the raw authenticity of Art Brut, but they articulate themselves in the gestural, conscious language of contemporary Expressionism. Each canvas is a place of confrontation – between control and chaos, between thought and feeling, between memory and presence. Thus, Stammer creates an oeuvre that is both personal and universal: an archaeology of emotion, a cartography of human existence

    Kurzvita

    *Reinhard Stammer (1952, Glücksburg) lebt und arbeitet auf Mallorca. Nach vielen Jahren als Verleger widmete er sich vollständig der Malerei und entwickelte eine eigenständige Bildsprache zwischen Art Brut und zeitgenössischem Expressionismus. Seine Werke wurden international ausgestellt und befinden sich heute in privaten Sammlungen in Europa und den USA. Von 2021 bis 2026 arbeitete er eng mit dem Künstler und Autor A. T. Kinsky in Port d’Andratx zusammen.

    Member of AVAM since 2025