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Leopold Strobl auf YouTube
Leopold Strobl on YouTube
Die Probleme des Lebens sind für die Zeit des Malens, und auch
für einige Zeit danach, ganz verschwunden. Wenn ich male, konfrontiere
ich mich nicht mit Alltagssorgen, ich vergesse alles. Ich
bin ja regionaler Schachmeister und das Schach macht mir aus
dem gleichen Grund Freude, weil ich alles vergesse, wenn ich
mich zu einer Schachpartie hinsetze. Das ist so, wie wenn ich
mich zum Zeitungspapier hinsetze und es übermale. Alle Probleme
sind weg, ich bin nur mehr irgendwie glücklich.
Mein ganzes Leben verarbeite ich in meinen Bildern. Ich hab
schon eine Menge erlebt und das spiegelt sich alles in meinen
Werkbildern.
Manchmal sage ich zu mir, ich trage alles Leid der Welt und dann
schlägt das um, und ich sage mir: „Es wird alles gut!“ Und das ist
eine Botschaft, da geht eigentlich nichts drüber. Es wird alles gut!
“I am very close to
God, when I paint”
Leopold Strobl talks about his artistic career and his work.
He explains what drives him, what painting triggers
in him – and why his skies are green.
folders. As soon as I discover a photo that I know what I want to
do with I know roughly what it will look like when it’s finished.
I take the picture, put it in my portfolio and that’s the end of my
artistic day’s work and I can get on with such mundane tasks as
housework, gardening, and childcare.
It’s good when there’s a lot of sky in a picture, because I really
like the sky, I always paint it green, then it takes on a blue-green
hue. For me, a slightly greenish sky is simply more romantic
than a blue sky. I could do that day and night ... paint the sky
green. Over time, green has emerged as my colour, it has become
such a favourite colour that I would love to keep the light
green coloured pencil under my pillow at night, it has something
almost sacred for me. It’s not for nothing that everything in
nature is light green, green is: life. Red is far too aggressive for
me. The sky with its clouds has always fascinated me. As a child,
I often went up on the roof, lay down there, and looked at the
cloud shapes for hours, that fascinated me – and the infinite.
Painting also has a certain religious character for me and it
is simply metaphysics and philosophy. I am very close to God
when I paint. Painting transports me into a dream world, transports
me into a mysterious world.
They are a kind of love, my drawings, in that I devote myself to
them with all my strength, and everything I can and do and feel
in them is also an act of love for me – art.
It all started with my art in kindergarten, I really enjoyed
painting “Hatschi Bratschi’s balloon” and then in secondary
school we had the subject of abstract painting and that’s when
I painted my first abstract picture. It was hung up in the classroom
and everyone looked at it, which somehow impressed me.
I always enjoyed the colours and shapes, and that’s how it continued
in high school. The drawing teacher advised me not to
become a painter because most people can’t make a living from
it, but that didn’t put me off and I did it. Drawing allows me to
express everything I feel and if I don’t want everyone to know, I
make it encrypted.
I study the newspapers very carefully and inevitably come across
one or two photos per newspaper, which I collect in folders and
when I feel like painting – which is always in the morning when
the sun rises because I need daylight to paint – I look through the
I have had major psychological problems in my past due to life
circumstances, such as illness, and I can process that very well.
I feel good when I paint, it’s a good life for me when I paint.
Life’s problems disappear completely for the time I’m painting
and for some time afterwards. When I paint, I don’t confront
myself with everyday worries, I forget everything. After all, I’m
a regional chess master and I enjoy chess for the same reason, because
I forget everything when I sit down to play a game of chess.
It’s like when I sit down with the newspaper and colour over it.
All my problems are gone, I’m just kind of happy.
I process my whole life in my paintings. I’ve experienced a lot
and it’s all reflected in my paintings.
Sometimes I say to myself that I’m carrying all the suffering in
the world and then it turns around and I say to myself: “It’s all
going to be okay!” And that’s a message, there’s really nothing
like it. Everything will be fine!