My name is Maximilian Völter and I am an artist from Bremen. I have been artistically active for about three years and during this time I have dealt extensively with abstract painting, especially abstract expressionist oil painting. I also do some drypoint etchings and monotypes.
I draw most of my inspiration from the ambivalence of human emotions, especially my own. I'm committed to abstraction because I want to leave the realism to the photographers. I want to paint and show what no camera can capture. The complexity and depth of human emotions.
My claim to my pictures is that people only think secondarily about what I was thinking at the moment of creation, but I want to evoke associations from the viewer's own emotional world and in this way enable each individual viewer to have an individual experience .
My paintings are characterized by impulsiveness, spontaneity, gestures, movement and power, but at the same time these qualities are balanced with moments of calm, meditative contemplation, precise consideration for the next step in the process, stepping back from the work. As much as I challenge my works in the process of creation, I also allow them the moments of unfolding and breathing.
Despite the fact that the pictures appear as if they were created within a few minutes, they not only require a considerable amount of preparation time, but the working process itself is not unplanned, despite all the dynamics. Each work step is preceded by precise observations of the work, because I am not the only one who decides what the picture needs next, the picture tells me this of its own accord and it is up to me to perceive these signs.
Painting is my form of self-reflection! Because after a while, the pictures tell me more about myself at the moment of creation than I was aware of at the time. My paintings are a mirror of my unconscious.
As my art grows with me, so do I grow with my art.
Germany
