Austin Eddy X Campendonk

Museum Penzberg - Campendonk Collection shows over 60 works by the American painter
Austin Eddy: From larger than life to postcard format.

In multi-layered oil crayon, watercolour, drawing, collage and sculpture, Austin Eddy develops his pictorial language
develops his visual language between figure and abstraction. Birds and fish, flowers, trees and buildings, which are more poetic forms than animals, nature and dwellings, enchant the viewer with their extraordinarily appealing visual language.

A century and the artistic avant-garde of two continents lie between the art production of Heinrich Campendonk (1889-1957) and Austin Eddy, born in Boston in 1986.
Austin Eddy.

The works of the artist, who lives and works in Brooklyn/New York, can currently be seen in numerous exhibitions in the USA and Europe. Eddy's still lifes are not still, but rather symbolise physical and psychological movement. Birds in a nosedive or fish in togetherness sometimes become metaphors for the human quest for freedom, but also symbolise stability and structure.

Eddy uses lines, dots, texture and colour to depict universal codes for fundamental emotions without the human being being visible. His pictorial language is sometimes reminiscent of Heinrich Campendonk's works in an equally contemporary vocabulary. The painful longing
for the lost harmony of man and nature, as formulated by the Blaue Reiter, can be clearly felt.

Last edited on 19.01.2026