Thomas Riechmann

Thomas Riechmann (Tommy Tinte): I am a historian, writer and painter. I have been painting for about 30 years, but have only taken part in exhibitions in my home region. I have been influenced by the German Expressionists (especially Kokoschka, Beckmann, FK Gotsch). But I also found Paul Klee, George Grosz, Käthe Kollwitz, Frida Kahlo and Max Ernst very inspiring. I move in the border area between abstraction and representational art, because artists should explore this shadowy realm of what is just barely recognizable in order to be able to re-evaluate familiar stories and things that are taken for granted.