Robert Süess

Robert Süess 1950
« My pictures are landscapes of the soul. They show my fascination with the creative expression of the hidden and the desire to discover. »

Robert Süess lives and works in Central Switzerland. After studying typography, he deepened his creative craft at renowned art academies in German-speaking Europe (e.g. Vienna, Hanover, Augsburg, Kunstfabrik am Bodensee, Monastery Neustift/South Tyrol). Crucial to Süess' artistic work is not only his impressive, variable creative power, but also his love of experimentation. Both correspond to a trait of the artist: Süess is generous. He draws from abundance, from his inner richness; he gives himself to the canvas and gives himself away in colors and forms.

The power of nature
High-class use of colors forms and materials guarantee an enormous density in his works: the os tensibly present, the powerfully dominant is given just as much space as the fragile, semi-transpar ent, fragmentary and enigmatic. The viewer thus immediately feels a rare audacity, an expansive power - and at the same time, he recognizes the playful, delicate gesture. In doing so, Robert Süess invokes the pure desire to create - which must always allow for destruction, for the experi mental, for the liveliness of composition and color, for the power of the sensual and corporeal.
Of the beauty of the transient
In his figurative works, Robert Süess intentionally captures the body in its abstract beauty and at the same time reminds us - not least through his versatile painterly techniques - of the decay of even the most beautiful body, of the transience of man and the preciousness of his days.

Typography
Every day and everywhere we are surrounded by characters and thus typography. In many of his works, Robert Süess uses personal characters and forms of expression such as lines, empty spaces, surfaces, symbolism and collages, in addition to color forms. In this way he is able to trigger or express emotions and thus influence the understanding and interpretation of whole mes sages in the pictorial expression of his compositions.
Soundtrack:
Ludwig van Beethoven
Bagatelles op.126
Kylen Ashbaker, piano
As part of a masterclass with Alessio Bax