The Artist

Peter Lutz creates pictures which cannot be ascribed to any particular artistic style: they are different.
Using a technique he developed himself, on the basis of beeswax and natural pigments, he paints pictures of intensive colours and a structure no other artist has achieved before. His creations remind one of natural forms and shapes and are so manifold that on constantly detects something new, even when looking at them for hours. Photographic enlargements of his paintings demonstrate that even at a microcosmic level a myriad of details is there to be discovered. It took Peter Lutz twelve years of experimentation and gathering of the necessary experience to be able to master his materials well enough, using heat and cold, carefully matched colour mixtures and different ways of treatment, to express the pictures arising before his inner eye. As he says himself, he works "in constant dialogue with the matter in hand."
"I talk to the picture and his elements while working. Finally the material agrees to cooperate and meet me half-way. When this has been achieved, the really creative process begins."
The artist´s technique generates a plastic effect which breaks through the two-dimensional sphere and spreads out into space. More than that: it has an impact upon the surrounding space. Viewers of the paintings react in very different ways.
One picture, hanging in a doctor´s office, is frequently interpreted by the patients as the representation of a sick organ. A gardener might decipher the same picture as a flower, the lover as a loving heart, the pregnant woman as growing life.
Thus the paintings always reflect the feelings of the person becoming involved - they stir up emotions which go far beyond the visual and aesthetic impact.
Every time you look at one of Peter Lutz` pictures you will see a different painting. This gives you the opportunity, over time, to learn a lot about yourself.
Not everyone likes that - it´s the same as with every other kind of art.
But Peter Lutz has no intention to provoke. He does not hesitate to confess that he aims for beauty - even if this term is frequently treated with suspicion by the currently ruling aesthetic sense. As his work proves, aesthetic appeal is anything but boring.

Peter Lutz was born in Würzburg, southern Germany, in 1937. He has tried his hand at many different professions: judicial officer, postal clerk, Roman catholic priest and writer. Until a few years ago, he taught as senior teacher in a grammar school in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. In addition to his intensive artistic work, his books about such far ranging subjects as religious philosophy, cultural history, natural science and esotericism are a reflection of his various and widespread interests. He regularly teaches shamanistic healing in well-attended seminars in Berlin, Braunschweig and Frankfurt am Main.#