Weimar 01 – 36, 2025 (gallery view)
oil on Belgian linen
each 24 x 30 cm (9,5 x 11,8 inches)
Weimar 04, 2026 (Max Beckmann – German painter, printmaker)
oil on Belgian linen
24 x 30 cm (9,5 x 11,8 inches)
Weimar 10, 2025 (Uziel Gal, Israeli firearm designer)
oil on Belgian linen
24 x 30 cm (9,5 x 11,8 inches)
Weimar 18, 2026 (Leon Jouhaux – French trade unionist
oil on Belgian linen
24 x 30 cm (9,5 x 11,8 inches)
Weimar 28, 2026 (Borys Romantschenko – Ukrainian Holocaust survivor))
oil on Belgian linen
24 x 30 cm (9,5 x 11,8 inches)
Weimar 01 (Anni Albers – German-American textile artist)
Weimar 02 (Josef Albers – German-American artist)
Weimar 03 (Johann Sebastian Bach – German composer)
Weimar 04 (Max Beckmann – German painter, printmaker)
Weimar 05 (Marianne Brandt – German Bauhaus artist)
Weimar 06 (Lucas Cranach the Elder – German painter)
Weimar 07 (Marlene Dietrich – German- American singer)
Weimar 08 (Friedrich Ebert – former President of Germany)
Weimar 09 (Lyonel Feininger – German-American painter)
Weimar 10 (Uziel Gal – Israeli firearm designer)
Weimar 11 (Emma Göring – wife of Hermann Göring)
Weimar 12 (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – German writer)
Weimar 13 (Harry Graf Kessler – Anglo-German diplomat)
Weimar 14 (Walter Gropius – German-American architect)
Weimar 15 (Johann G. Herder – German philosopher)
Weimar 16 (Johann N. Hummel – Austrian composer)
Weimar 17 (Johannes Itten – Swiss painter, art educator)
Weimar 18 (Leon Jouhaux – French trade unionist)
Weimar 19 (Wassily Kandinsky – Russian painter)
Weimar 20 (Andrej Kartapolow – Russian politician)
Weimar 21 (Ilse Koch – German war criminal)
Weimar 22 (Paul Klee – Swiss-German painter)
Weimar 23 (Serhii Kulchytskyi – Ukranian mayor general)
Weimar 24 (Franz Liszt – Hungarian composer and pianist)
Weimar 25 (Georges Mandel – French politician)
Weimar 26 (Friedrich Nietzsche – German philosopher)
Weimar 27 (Maria Pawlovna – grand duchess of Russia)
Weimar 28 (Borys Romantschenko – Ukrainian Holocaust survivor)
Weimar 29 (Fritz Sauckel – German Nazi politician)
Weimar 30 (Friedrich Schiller – German poet, philisopher)
Weimar 31 (Ernst Thälmann – German communist)
Weimar 32 (Johanna Schopenhauer – German writer)
Weimar 33 (Rudolf Steiner – Austrian anthroposoph)
Weimar 34 (Richard Strauss – German composer)
Weimar 35 (Henry van de Velde – Belgian architect, artist)
Weimar 36 (Carl Zeiss – German industrialist, optician)
The series comprises 36 portrait studies, each painted slightly larger than life to establish a direct, eye-level encounter at a typical viewing distance.
The figures span nearly three centuries of Weimar’s cultural and political history: artists, philosophers, composers, architects, scientists, politicians, and war criminals. They are arranged alphabetically. Period detail, hairstyles, clothing, ornaments, is systematically removed. What remains is a reduced image of the face, detached from markers of time, gender, or social position.
This reduction produces a structure of equivalence. Each portrait occupies the same scale, format, and position within the grid. The series reads less as a set of individuals than as a system of alignment.
Within this system, distinctions persist but are no longer secured by appearance. The inclusion of perpetrators does not introduce contrast, but tension. Recognition becomes uncertain. The viewer is confronted with the limits of visual identification.
The series does not reconstruct biography. It operates as an index: a set of images held together by proximity, repetition, and difference. What appears neutral is not without implication. It establishes a distance from which the image can be read, but not resolved.
Technical note:
Each painting measures 24 x 30 cm, using a reduced palette dominated by skin-toned hues with variations in red and ochre. The faces are rendered with consistent proportions, carefully aligned in eye-level height and vertical axis to produce a unified field of gazes. Despite tonal variation, the portraits maintain formal cohesion through consistent scale, framing, and compositional restraint.