Eye to eye with Michael Rühmling

Yulia:
Michael, if you had to explain to someone unfamiliar with Siegward Sprotte what makes his work so distinctive – how would you describe it in just a few sentences?

Michael Rühmling:
Siegward Sprotte was an artist who did not merely depict landscape, but sought to capture its innermost essence with a few precise brushstrokes. His painting thrives on reduction to the essential: light, space, and movement are often merely suggested – and it is precisely through this restraint that a profound poetic force emerges. Sprotte fused Western and Far Eastern influences into a visual language entirely his own, where the visible and the invisible, the concrete and the abstract, dissolve into one another. His works invite us to experience nature as a spiritual space – as stillness, as energy, as meditation in image.