Markus Weggenmann (born 1953) is a painter through and through. His paintings, executed with high-load distemper, are extraordinary interactions between highly reduced forms on the one hand and homogeneous flat colors on the other. The spectrum ranges from light-absorbing to light-emitting colors. He became known in the 1990s with his vibrant striped paintings, which were already on display at the Kunstmuseum Singen at that time.
In 2026, the Kunstmuseum Singen will once again be showing a retrospective of the German-Swiss artist’s work. The current series “LW” is reminiscent of landscape formations and mountain panoramas. At the moment of perception, these forms tip over into pure, autonomous, clearly contoured areas of color interspersed with white fields of energy. Weggenmann thus creates unsettling, floating pictorial spaces that simultaneously draw us into a state of profound calm. Some critics say they are reminiscent of works of German Romanticism.
