Nikolaus Moser

The artist was born in 1956 in Spittal an der Drau, and studied with such different personalities as Carl Unger and Adolf Frohner. Moser´s work has been included in international exhibitons for the last two decades.

It is not easy to class him with a particular grouping or style. At the same time, however, he makes it easy for us to approach his art. Like broad areas of colour his works allow insights into nature. His wall-pastures, -suns, -seas are always dominated by colour and light.
Friends and collectors of the works of Nikolaus Moser are impressed both by the artist´s compositional generosity and the spontaneity with which he transposes emotions into paintings.

Nikolaus Moser´s relationship with colour is vital and sensual - he executes many of his oil paintings in his hut high up on the mountain pastures to which he retreats each summer. Sometimes earth, stones or ash are mixed into the thickly-applied oils to give his work the dimensions of a relief or even a piece of sculpture.

Christian Ludwig Attersee on Nikolaus Moser: "He needs to be neither a founder nor a precursor of a new type of painting, he is satisfied with his own handwriting to discover a revival of painting. Flotsam and other unexpected objects of every-day life and yearnings appeal to the viewer and invite him to enter the paintings, to become entwined with them. Nikolaus Moser can do without Picasso´s ability to tell a story, Monet´s wealth of colours, and Mondrian´s ruler, he uses brush and palette-knife like a ship ploughing through the coloured fields of paint, and this again and again releases new concrete associations."