About the work
Heinrich Siepmann was a co-founder of the "junger westen" (Young West) artist group in Recklinghausen in 1948. His coherent image structures reveal themselves to understanding, as well as to the emotions as balanced, harmoniously functioning units. The images are composed of geometric forms, which are empathetically balanced against one another in their colourfulness and positioning. They are not limited to the composition of areas in the process but instead become spatially relevant through overpainting, overlapping and the painting of edges. The viewer begins to involuntarily comprehend the contexts of the pictorial elements, to explore the significance of each individual part for the whole
