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 Antonio Caputo - 2010 Gianni Moneta - 1984 Heinz von Cramer - 2000 Herbert Pagani - 1976 Lothar Fischer - 2010 Paolo Rizzi - 1990 Pubblio Dal Soglio - 1987 Toni Kienlechner - 1984 Toni Kienlechner - 1986 Toni Kienlechner - 1988 Testimonianze visitatori - 1990 Testimonianze visitatori - 1991 |
Toni Kienlechner wrote about him in 1988
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It is thanks to his art that Heinz J. Duell has become ideally an Italian citizen, and it is thanks to this ideal Italian citizenship that his art has become during the years more and more mature and abundant. From his first time in Rome and in old places of Etruria his sensibility as a painter immediately answerd to two stimulus: to the Roman Baroque and to the enigmatic Etrurian landscape.
The Roman Baroque as figurative language can be noticed not only in the representations of mystic saints that in an odd and lightly iconoclast way refer to the modern surrealism, but above all in his drawings. The artist composes some “still lives” in a “chaos” of fruits, human bodies and things, a voluptuous and yet harmonic chaos.
All these painted things seem to whirl to the point of being engulfed in an invisible abyss. However, we perceive that it is just a threatening strength which keeps and restrains this world of “painted things” in a severe arrangement, in an ” order “ that defends and saves us from living distress. This shaping effect is a serious effect. The latest part of Heinz J. Duell ‘ s painting pursuit starts with its landscapes of a magic Sardinia with its particular colours. These images have something of magic and of “Wagnerian” as if the spirit of “the Flying Dutchman” hovered about the seas and the cliffs.Translated by Erminia Paola Maria Merolla |