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Wulf Barsch

The cosmic imagery of Wulf Barsch includes “pyramids, palm and cypress trees, juxtapositions of geometric diagrams, suggestions of architecture, rainbows andoften a subtle wind blowing in from the left of the painting. Landscapes suggest the desert, but the colors are intense and arbitrary. Barsch has never seen a pyramid firsthand. No figures inhabit these “landscapes of the mind,” but there are clues to man’s hand: the pyramids themselves, geometric figures, cypresses planted in rows along a path or a rare building. But these created landscapes are well-anchored in reality. Memories supply his images. Barsch remembers his first night as a fellow at the American Academy in Rome in the mid-70’s: “There was a terrific wind and a rain storm that night. I looked for a long time into the courtyard where the palms and the cypresses bent and bowed to wind and rain.” Born in Reudnitz, Bohemia, his art expresses a universal theme about the home that he believes he once knew and the life-long struggle to become once again a denizen of that society. “Knowing about that home,” he says, “helps explain the present and control the future.” The views of his “Imaginary Middle-East,” as Frank Sanguinetti aptly calls the landscapes, are the visual recapitulations of moments, which are the symbolic notations of meaningful benchmarks in the artist’s life.

To view original artwork by Wulf Barsch, please visit the Marshall LeKae Fine Art Gallery in Scottsdale, AZ.