Florian Süssmayr

In his works, Florian Süssmayr deals with images of memory, with exclusion and belonging, with fleeting moments and the ephemeral. Landscapes and portraits as well as close-ups of places of social neglect and still lifes can be found in his repertoire, mostly in a very realistic manner. The seemingly peripheral becomes the main protagonist and individual images are assembled cinematographically to form pieces of evidence: a characteristic that fundamentally underlies all the works in Süssmayr’s oeuvre. The artist, whose roots lie in the political and cultural underground of the 1980s, uncovers the traces of everyday human life in an archaeological manner and preserves their imperfection and authenticity in oil. Social deviance, the subcultural and the everyday are his themes and determine the often art-historically referencing motifs of his interiors, still lifes, scribbles, crowds and (self-) portraits. This content-related impression is reinforced by the artist’s painting style. Oscillating between photorealism, gestural abstraction and impressionistic borrowings, the artist is able to create a complex interplay of light and shadow with a few, yet decisive, strokes and omissions, as well as with the help of a restrained color palette, which ultimately leads to an immersive atmospheric composition.

Florian Süssmayr's works can be found in renowned international collections such as the Fondation Francès, Senlis, France; HISCOX, London, UK; Herzog Franz von Bayern Collection, Munich, Germany; Munich RE Collection, Munich, Germany; Augustiner Bräu, Munich, Germany; ISELF Collection, Switzerland; ADAC Collection, Germany.