200 × 260 cm · 2011
Kunst ohne Filter. Emotion als Farbe. “Every line carries the memory of a storm.” Karl Kinsky
Artistic Position – Werkcharakter Reinhard Stammers Werk steht an der Schwelle zwischen Art Brut und Neo-Expressionismus.
Was bei Jean Dubuffet noch als „rohe Kunst“ aus dem Unbewussten geboren wurde, verwandelt sich bei Stammer in ein bewusst gelebtes, künstlerisch reflektiertes Prinzip. Seine Malerei bleibt ungezähmt, doch sie spricht mit der Sprache der Erfahrung. Stammer malt nicht, um zu gefallen oder zu erklären. Er malt, um zu überleben, zu erinnern, zu verwandeln. Farbe wird bei ihm zu Emotion, Linie zu Spur, Oberfläche zu innerem Raum. Seine Figuren, Zeichen und Fragmente sind wie archäologische Schichten einer Seele – Überreste von Erlebtem, Verletzungen, Erkenntnissen.
- Foto by Axel Ruske
- Great Artists of Mallorca by Axel Ruske
Shoot with AxelRuske for the book “Great Artists of Mallorca”, releasedin 2025 Concept: Artist portrait and their works. Photo and copyright by Axel Ruske
Seine Arbeiten bewahren die rohe Authentizität der Art Brut, aber sie artikulieren sich in der gestischen, bewussten Sprache des zeitgenössischen Expressionismus. Jede Leinwand ist ein Ort der Konfrontation – zwischen Kontrolle und Chaos, zwischen Denken und Fühlen, zwischen Erinnerung und Gegenwart. So schafft Stammer einen Werkkomplex, der gleichermaßen persönlich wie universell ist: eine Archäologie der Emotion, eine Kartografie des Menschseins
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.
Member of AVAM since 2025
