The list of names of his teachers reads like the ticket of admission to the world of renowned artists. Peter Langguth was student of Ackermann, Baselitz, Lüpertz und Sandle at the Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts. However, the artist, who decorated the gallery of the German Consulate General and the German House two years ago with his paintings, has successfully developed his own style over the years. There's no denying of his roots in his work, but, on the other hand, the supreme ease with wich he deals with his former teachers in abstract as well as partially concrete terms, shows his skill and self-confidence. This can, for instance, be seen in his series "Der Grübler". The density of composition out of which Langguth develops the design of his paintings, the brightness of his colours given a light transcendency by the use of pastel crayon, the exciting contrast between gravity and ease may unobtrusively lead the viewer deep into the complexity of his pictures. No sooner have figures become visible than they disintegrate into abstraction, the viewer finds himself in a field of tension between expressive style and agreable reduction of form. His range of colours includes shades of green and brown whose light brightness calls to mind the blue of the sky and the yellowness of the sun a lot better than the real use of the latter colours might do.

Peter Langguth and his art