Weimar is a small town in eastern Germany with an unexpected, yet also almost unbearable amount of history. This series of paintings reinterprets portraits of people who have significantly influenced Weimar‘s history and culture, or whose biographies have been significantly influenced by the city. I selected portraits based on older paintings or photographs and edited them to create a cohesive and timeless representation. By removing period-specific details such as haircuts and clothing, each portrait focuses on the human essence and makes the figures comparable across different eras. The series includes a wide range of figures, from famous artists such as Anni and Josef Albers, to literary figures such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller, to composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach and Franz Liszt. It also delves into the darker aspects of Weimar‘s history by deliberately including war criminals such as
Ilse Koch and Fritz Sauckel and placing them - through the alphabetical order of the paintings - in the middle of the social tapestry. Each painting is an indispensable part of the overall set, emphasizing the collective influence of the sum of each individual on Weimar. The aim of this series is to provide a comprehensive and objective overview of Weimar’s cultural heritage.

Weimar 10 (Uziel Gal – Israeli firearm designer)
oil on canvas
24 x 30 cm (9,5 x 11,8 inches)

Weimar 01 - 36

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 Older – 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 (Carl Haussknecht – German botanic)
Weimar 16 (Johann G. Herder – German philosopher)
Weimar 17 (Johann N. Hummel – Austrian composer)
Weimar 18 (Johannes Itten – Swiss painter, art educator)
Weimar 19 (Leon Jouhaux – French trade unionist)
Weimar 20 (Wassily Kandinsky – Russian painter)
Weimar 21 (Andrej Kartapolow – Russian politician)
Weimar 22 (Ilse Koch – German war criminal)
Weimar 23 (Paul Klee – Swiss-German painter)
Weimar 24 (Serhii Kulchytskyi – Ukranian mayor general)
Weimar 25 (Franz Liszt – Hungarian composer and pianist)
Weimar 26 (Georges Mandel – French politician)
Weimar 27 (Friedrich Nietzsche – German philosopher)
Weimar 28 (Maria Pawlovna – grand duchess of Russia)
Weimar 29 (Fritz Sauckel – German Nazi politician)
Weimar 30 (Friedrich Schiller – German poet, philisopher)
Weimar 31 (Paul Schneider – Prussian pastor)
Weimar 32 (Johanna Schopenhauer – German writer)
Weimar 33 (Rudolf Steiner – Austrian anthroposoph)
Weimar 34 (Richard Strauss – Austrian composer)
Weimar 35 (Henry van de Velde – Belgian architect, artist)
Weimar 36 (Carl Zeiss – German optician)