I bought a book on this young German painter last year. Matthias Weischer’s work focusses mainly on interiors. On the surface these interiors look almost normal, almost as there are apartments without roofs like the Egyptian room, weird perspectives, strange settings. Most of paintings are quite big like the 200 x 280 cm “Buhne”, a clumsy stage set in a Rousseaunesque jungle. The work has an air of quiteness to it mostly devoid of figures, or sometimes the people in the paintings are more like ghostly shadows like the empty trousers in “Hohse”, or doll-like figures like “Madonna” or “Sitzende”.

I was contemplating to buy a painting, but the price tag: 200,000 – 300,000 U$ is a bit(!) steep…