II. 2002 – 2008 Arbeitswelt in den USA - Tylle, H. D.

Tylle’s artistic development as a freelance painter has been accompanied for what is now thirty
years by the commentaries of experts in art and culture, and of curators and fellow artists in many
exhibition catalogs – of a total of over fifty exhibitions, most of them solo exhibitions – and in monographs.
These artists each address one of the focuses of Tylle’s oeuvre and his working method.
From their different points of view, they thus provide a welcome overview, in chronological order,
of the painter’s development, his specific working method, the various fields of his work and also
assessments of his position in art history. These also include – repeatedly but on the whole in passing
– informative observations, lively accounts of personal encounters with the artist and many an
acknowledgement of Tylle’s personality. I have selected here three commentaries illuminating different
aspects of his output.
In the first published commentary, Gunter Schweikhart (Kassel; AK 1982, reprinted in AK
1988/1) gives an aesthetic analysis and, from personal knowledge of students and graduates
of the Kassel University Fine Art course, reports on Tylle’s first publicly exhibited industrial and
natural landscapes. This is coupled with a far-sighted assessment of the painter that is still
valid today:
“For some time now, art has been increasingly addressing everyday experience again, investigating
the conditions of our lives, our fears and wishes. Photography, film, video, collage and other techniques
examine the world of perception, experience and work. It must therefore at first seem all the
more astonishing to find a young artist fully committed to the traditional form of museum expression,
i.e. that of oil painting on canvas. This choice of medium embodies a program of assigning tasks to
painting that long appeared to have been abandoned to other formal artistic media, such as photography,
film and video. The precondition for pictures from the world of work is thus rooted in the
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