Alois Mosbacher has always created paradoxical scenes and compositions (which can only be realised by painterly means) with a certain emotional reference to contemporary life - the basis of his paintings. Mosbacher's motifs can often be read as ecological, or rather as non-ideologically concerned about the future of the planet.

Like hardly any other important painter of the "Junge Wilde" of the 1980s, he has continued to dedicate his work with lots of devotion to this theme after that period. Landscape painting has therefore remained the essential domain of his work. However, in Alois Mosbacher's work the landscape never appears in broad panoramas, but rather in close-up, with enigmatic constellations of objects, animals or people, which corresponds to the fact that landscapes, not "obscured" by objects and buildings, exist today (apart from tourist postcards) only in high alpine areas and below sea level (in the paintings of Herbert Brandl, the other Styrian landscape painter of Mosbacher's generation). The work of Alois Mosbacher is a prime example of a continuous development that regularly reinvents itself through unpredictable steps, completely different subjects, technical upheavals and the play between unfolding and withdrawing colour.

Robert Fleck in Vom Pathos freiarbeiten. Die Aktualität von Alois Mosbachers Malerei

Fotocredit: © Alois Mosbacher

ON VIEW: Belvedere 21 - Alois Mosbacher paliopsis - from March 10 - Sept. 9, 2023