About Reinhard Stammer

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

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.

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

Artistic Position – Between Art Brut and Neo-Expressionism

Reinhard Stammer’s art stands at the threshold between Art Brut and Neo-Expressionism. What emerged in Jean Dubuffet’s time as a “raw art” born from the subconscious, becomes in Stammer’s work a consciously lived artistic principle. His paintings remain untamed, yet they speak the language of experience. He does not paint to please or to explain – he paints to survive, to remember, to transform. Colour becomes emotion, line becomes trace, and surface becomes inner space. His figures, symbols, and fragments are like archaeological layers of the soul —remnants of what has been lived, hurt, and understood.

Stammer’s works retain the raw authenticity of Art Brut while articulating themselves through the conscious, gestural language of contemporary expressionism. Each canvas is a confrontation between control and chaos, intellect and instinct, memory and presence. His oeuvre is both personal and universal: an archaeology of emotion, a map of the human condition.

Text Karl Kinsky

Short Vita

Reinhard Stammer was born on July 25th 1952 in Glücksburg – close to the Baltic Sea (Germany). He lived a very experimental life with many ups and downs.
The desire to express himself artistically was instilled in him from birth.He wrote many poems and a book that he never published, because he was more focusing on painting. At the age of 33, he founded the P.A.R.C.-Verlag; a publishing house, which he sold at the age of 55 to devote more attention to a life-threatening illness. He began painting more intensively, which certainly helped him to heal from the illness, as also did the treatment of his wife, who, as a successful homeopath, devoted all her knowledge and skills to him. He quickly found galleries at home and abroad that exhibited his highly expressive works. In 2021, at the height of the so called coronavirus pandemic as mandatory vaccination becomes increasingly likely, he and his wife moved to Mallorca. Here he worked together with AT Kinsky in Port d’Andratx . This collaboration found its end in March 2026.

Reinhard Stammer’s art stands at the threshold between Art Brut and Neo-Expressionism. What emerged in Jean Dubuffet’s time as a “raw art” born from the subconscious, becomes in Stammer’s work a consciously lived artistic principle. His paintings remain untamed, yet they speak the language of experience. He does not paint to please or to explain – he paints to survive, to remember, to transform. Colour becomes emotion, line becomes trace, and surface becomes inner space. His figures, symbols, and fragments are like archaeological layers of the soul —remnants of what has been lived, hurt, and understood.

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