Simplicity as perfection.
Alexander Eggenhofer was born in Vienna in 1968 and has 2 children. He studied as a guest student in Vienna with Prof. Steininger; and 1 year of studying textile art at the Academy of Fine Arts. For many years he took part in the aesthetic exercises (painting and philosophy) in Seckau Abbey with Professor Paul Rotterdam (representative of the New York School; Professor at Harvard University, USA).
He is a freelance painter and lives and works in the Waldviertel. Numerous exhibitions at home and abroad and now, together with CheetahCraft worldart, also access to the international online art market.
I find that Dr. phil. Heidrun Eckert found very nice words for me and my art:
"The painter Alexander Eggenhofer fascinates: His forms, the result of long inner work, are reduced to the extreme: surfaces that breathe and live in endless variations. Lines that say a lot with little. Frames that open into infinity. Antithetical compositions with the courage to Center Eggenhofer's simplicity borders on perfection. Its colors are just as subtle. They are used sparingly. Variations of an infinite spectrum between light and dark. Even its rare red glows cautiously. An increasing variety of artistic techniques is visible in his more recent works. Smaller elements are increasingly appearing. The human face also appears. Sometimes it is barely visible, woven into the whole, as if its beings lived, connected to everything, in the eternal ground of being. At times his faces stand out clearly. A few essential lines form archaic features, super-individual, timeless, problem-free, silent - there is hardly any mouth - as if immersed in eternal meditation. Expression of a supra-individual consciousness that survives the fleeting passage of time? This painter does not shout because he has a lot to say. He speaks little. But essential. He does not criticize, does not shock. He lives for a spiritual art that shows better ways."
- Dr phil. Heiderun Eckert
