--- type: exposition title: Herbert Brandl language: en url: "https://www.belvedere.at/en/herbert-brandl" --- # Herbert Brandl ## Exposed to Painting. The Past Twenty Years ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/header_cropped_1920x480_fp/public/media-directories/1_hb_01LEY_1.jpg.webp?itok=YGp5dbof) **Duration:** 31 January 2020 - 26 October 2020 With his large-format imagery, Herbert Brandl ranks alongside the most successful contemporary painters in Austria. Landscape as a subject has always been dominant in his work, which alternates between painterly abstraction and objectivity. Since the turn of the new millennium, Brandl’s passion for the monumentality of mountainscapes has become increasingly apparent. Using various formats and techniques, the painter has reinterpreted the subject of mountains, playing with expressive gestures, abstract color spaces, and massive shapes. From late January 2020 the Belvedere 21 will be presenting an exhibition of Brandl’s oeuvre that focuses on work produced over the past two decades, including pieces that the artist has created especially for this exhibition. Curated by Rolf H. Johannsen. Other perspectives on Herbert Brandl’s artistic oeuvre can be found in the solo shows at the Kunsthaus Graz and at the Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien in Graz. *Herbert Brandl. MORGEN*, [Kunsthaus Graz](https://www.museum-joanneum.at/en/kunsthaus-graz) 23 October 2020 – 7 March 2021 *Bad Romance*, [Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz](https://www.km-k.at/en/) 23 October 2020 – 24 January 2021 The three exhibitions will be accompanied by separate catalogues depicting the artist’s multifaceted oeuvre, including his most recent artworks. \#HerbertBrandl ### [Belvedere 21](https://www.belvedere.at/en/visit/belvedere-21) **Opening hours:** Tuesday to Sunday, 11 am - 6 pm; Late Night: Thursday, 11 am - 9 pm **Address:** Belvedere 21, 1030 Vienna ([Getting there]()) [Tickets](https://www.belvedere.at/en/tickets?location%5B0%5D=4) ## Impressions - ![Herbert Brandl, "Apokalypse zur schönen Aussicht", 2020 — Acrylic paint on canvas, 3 parts, each 390 x 600 cm — Photo: Markus Wörgötter/Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/media-directories/Brandl-Katalog-002.jpg.webp?itok=hAHVLhJE) - ![Installation view, "Herbert Brandl. Exposed to Painting. The Past Twenty Years" — All works: Herbert Brandl, Photo: Markus Wörgötter/Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/media-directories/Brandl-Katalog-001.jpg.webp?itok=Yo6zv8SY) - ![Installation view, "Herbert Brandl. Exposed to Painting. The Past Twenty Years" — All works: Herbert Brandl, Photo: Markus Wörgötter/Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/media-directories/Brandl-Katalog-003.jpg.webp?itok=f0h-riQE) - ![Installation view, "Herbert Brandl. Exposed to Painting. The Past Twenty Years" — All works: Herbert Brandl, Photo: Markus Wörgötter/Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/media-directories/Brandl-Katalog-004.jpg.webp?itok=R0fXE9UX) - ![Installation view, "Herbert Brandl. Exposed to Painting. The Past Twenty Years" — All works: Herbert Brandl, Photo: Markus Wörgötter/Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/media-directories/Brandl-Katalog-005.jpg.webp?itok=-5IDLwe0) - ![Installation view, "Herbert Brandl. Exposed to Painting. The Past Twenty Years" — All works: Herbert Brandl, Photo: Markus Wörgötter/Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/media-directories/Brandl-Katalog-008_0.jpg.webp?itok=tOh17Ekg) - ![Installation view, "Herbert Brandl. Exposed to Painting. The Past Twenty Years" — All works: Herbert Brandl, Photo: Markus Wörgötter/Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/media-directories/Brandl-Katalog-014_0.jpg.webp?itok=jOMrPBfv) - ![Installation view, "Herbert Brandl. Exposed to Painting. The Past Twenty Years" — All works: Herbert Brandl, Photo: Markus Wörgötter/Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/media-directories/Brandl-Katalog-016_0.jpg.webp?itok=44OEI05S) - ![Installation view, "Herbert Brandl. Exposed to Painting. The Past Twenty Years" — All works: Herbert Brandl, Photo: Markus Wörgötter/Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/media-directories/Brandl-Katalog-017_0.jpg.webp?itok=-ILD7grA) ## The Artist ![Portrait Herbert Brandl — Photo: David Payr, © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/full_content_width_no_crop/public/media-directories/_DSC6225_klein.jpg.webp?itok=KVJxgwfS) Herbert Brandl was born in Graz in 1959. He attended the University of Applied Arts Vienna under Herbert Tasquil and Peter Weibel. The artist is known internationally thanks to his participation in major exhibitions like documenta IX in Kassel in 1992 and the Venice Biennale in 2007. Brandl was a professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 2004 to 2019. He lives and works in Vienna. ## Videos ## Exhibited Artworks - ![Herbert Brandl, Ohne Titel, 2001, (Detail) — Privatsammlung, Wien | Courtesy Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Wien, Foto: Markus Wörgötter](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/full_content_width_no_crop/public/media-directories/02_03_B21_Herbert_Brandl_01.jpg.webp?itok=v9Ye_PkT) - ![Herbert Brandl, Untitled, 2006 — Oil on canvas, 218 x 170 cm — Private collection, Frankfurt/Main | Courtesy Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt/Main, Photo: Wolfgang Günzel, Courtesy Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt/Main](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/full_content_width_no_crop/public/media-directories/6_HB06HEA_Gr%C3%A4sslin.jpg.webp?itok=IcER-Dak) - ![Herbert Brandl, Untitled, 2019 — Oil on canvas, 250 x 200 cm — Collection Oesterreichische Nationalbank, Photo: Markus Wörgötter, Courtesy Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/full_content_width_no_crop/public/media-directories/hb_19SBN_PLAKAT%2C%20EL%2C%20Folder%20vorne.jpg.webp?itok=YepZbZ4z) - ![Herbert Brandl, Untitled, 2018 — Oil on canvas, 150 × 250 cm — Courtesy Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Innsbruck/Vienna, Photo: Bernhard Sickert, Courtesy Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Innsbruck/Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/full_content_width_no_crop/public/media-directories/BraM%20180012_Foto%20Galerie%20Elisabeth%26Klaus%20Thoman_Bernhard%20Sickert.jpg.webp?itok=AVkX4cxP) - ![Herbert Brandl, Untitled, 2005 — Oil on canvas, 160 x 195 cm — Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt/Main, Photo: Wolfgang Günzel, Courtesy Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt/Main](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/full_content_width_no_crop/public/media-directories/4_HB_Ohne_Titel_2005_1.jpg.webp?itok=UHYlc7Om) - ![Herbert Brandl, Untitled, 2003 — Oil on canvas, 270 x 400 cm — Collection Angermair | Courtesy Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, Photo: Markus Wörgötter, Courtesy Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/full_content_width_no_crop/public/media-directories/3_hb_03MSI_1.jpg.webp?itok=QLm2Gn4a) - ![Herbert Brandl — Herbert Brandl, Ohne Titel, 2002 — Photo: Johannes Stoll, © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/full_content_width_no_crop/public/media-directories/11074.jpg.webp?itok=eHpjxMVW) - ![Herbert Brandl, Untitled, 2002 — Oil on canvas, 220 x 250 cm — © Belvedere, Vienna, Photo: Johannes Stoll](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/full_content_width_no_crop/public/media-directories/2_11071-2014-5_1.jpg.webp?itok=DW1Z0l_P) ## Press