Entity — oil on canvas, 83×63 cm, Kurt Stimmeder

KURT STIMMEDER

The body confesses what the mind conceals

Kurt Stimmeder
Foto: Robert Maybach
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Kurt Stimmeder is an Austrian contemporary painter working in the field of psychological, gesture-based figuration. His oil paintings explore inner tension, subtle body language and the small, often overlooked moments in which the body reveals something internal. Working from his studio in Linz, Austria, he develops each painting through short movement studies, capturing fleeting psychological moments rather than literal imagery.

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In the Raiffeisenlandesbank Oberösterreich art collection · art-historical descriptions by the Katholische Privat-Universität Linz · filmed by the Kunstuniversität Linz for Re:Frame →
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