Peter Stahr ART
My work
After completing his art studies in Braunschweig, Peter Stahr drew artistic inspiration from a variety of sources. He worked in painting, media art and web design, and also taught. Since 2021, he has devoted himself entirely to fine art and now works as a freelance artist in Göttingen, where he has made a name for himself with his large-format acrylic works.
He prefers to use acrylics and mixed media on large canvases, combining pigments, dispersions, earth pigments and other materials to create multi-layered, profound works that straddle the line between abstraction and figuration.
Peter Stahr’s art is more than a visual representation – it invites the viewer to pause, delve into the depths of their own memories and rediscover the emotional power of abstract landscapes. His works pay homage to the interplay between nature and emotion, to transience and permanence, and to the inexhaustible source of inspiration that is the human emotional world.
His works speak from within; the storytelling of an artist who, with impressive ease, leaves the traditional boundaries of landscape painting behind. In Stahr’s works, reality and imagination merge into a powerful visual language that extends far beyond the visible. His compositions are not mere representations, but living transformations of reality; an invitation to perceive the world in all its complexity with fresh eyes and to embark on a sensory journey between reality and vision.
About my work
With his large-format canvases, Peter Stahr transforms pigments, textures, and natural materials into landscapes that touch both the heart and the imagination. Between the sea, memories, and sensations, each work invites the viewer to explore inner worlds, experience peace and hope, and see the world anew.
Lisa Hendrich, M.A. - Director Museum Stadt Bad Hersfeld
"The City of Bad Hersfeld is delighted to present the exhibition SichtWeiten by the artist Peter Stahr in the premises of the Galerie im Stift from 22 September 2023 to 12 November 2023. This exhibition is a unique highlight in our gallery as it explores the fascinating world of abstract acrylic painting in the context of landscape depictions. Peter Stahr, an impressive artist in this field, has created with SichtWeiten a collection of works that vividly blur the boundaries between reality and abstraction.
Charlotte Kowollik, Celle
"The color blue in all its nuances and numerous modes of action is the preferred color of the series of paintings Magic Landscapes. The light and color of the sea and the sky, painted from a wide variety of angles and with almost poetic flair. They are matter-of-fact, clear compositions of visualized memories of the artist's places of longing.
In his paintings he passes on these associative spaces to the viewer, bringing to life in him individual, long-buried emotions and memories.
These are pictures that reduce reality to a construction just before abstraction.
Johann Voss, Wefensleben (poet and writer)
"The pictures correspond to the aesthetic horizons of several arts.
First of all, Turner appears with his boundless passion for the vastness of the sea and the adventures of the sky.
Then I hear Erich Fried whisper solicitously: "When a man comes to the sea / he should be silent".
Then the final chords of Smetana's Vltava plunge into the open lap of the sea.
And then this blue calm! Everything is there in everything - blue longing and distant feelings paired with the understanding certainty that there is no staying in staying. And always this calm, this understanding.
The blue of the images settles silently on the beaches of my metaphors:
"Now go to the sea and see the light in all colors and if the sky is willing then come back and kiss all my scars."