Symbolic art moves between abstract painting and visual language. Signs, pictograms and graphic elements appear in the images and form their own layer within the painting. They function like fragments of a code or traces of a visual language that only reveals itself in the interplay of forms and colours.

Many of these works arise from the use of paint residues, fragments, and spontaneous painterly processes. Signs do not appear here as fixed symbols with a clear meaning, but as open pictorial forms. They may recall familiar pictograms, simple graphic markings, or accidental traces in the painting process.

Especially in series such as Der Farbkasten or Schmiertafel, such sign-like structures become clearly visible. Color fields, fragments, and symbol-like forms overlap and create complex pictorial spaces in which abstract painting and visual signs merge.

Symbolic art thus opens up a special way of looking at images. Between colour, structure and sign, an open visual language emerges that leaves room for different interpretations.

Signs as visual language

In many of these works, signs, markings and symbolic forms move into the foreground. They appear like fragments of a visual language that develops within abstract painting and opens up new spaces of meaning.

Series Paint Box and Smear Board

The series The Paintbox and Smear Board explore the interplay of color, fragment, and sign. Pictograms, symbolic forms, and spontaneous markings become part of the painting process and develop into independent pictorial elements within the composition.

The following works present a selection of symbolic paintings from various series of my work.