Art from Source.
In the tradition of Tintoretto and de Kooning.
The work of Annette Holzwarth expresses the conviction that beauty and joy are forces that can change the world. Her art reaches toward what no tradition can fully name: the unseen interior of the soul, the field above the mountains.
Although she views her paintings being influenced by the tradition of Western abstraction, descending from the Renaissance painters, from Tintoretto's light and gesture, her paintings are not about the past. They engage with the constantly changing present, accruing meaning through layers of paint and using crystals — rubies, tourmaline, black diamond — materials that carry their own energy into the surface. Her style developed outside the academy and is shaped by decades of practice. The work does not illustrate transcendence. It arrives from it.
Born in Stuttgart, Holzwarth holds an MA in literature and philosophy from the Ludwig- Maximilian University in Munich. Drawn early to de Kooning’s ferocious expressionism and the luminous ambition of the Venetian masters, she developed a technique entirely her own — painting with ground semi-precious stones and her hands, building surfaces that accumulate energy across many layers.