Art exhibition: Max Giermann does not seek recognition with his paintings

Things are different with his art, Giermann told the German Press Agency. “If someone doesn’t like the picture now, then I’m like, yeah, so what?” he said. “I actually don’t care a little bit more.” He doesn’t paint to please others. Rather, he has an inner urge to create. “I would do painting even without an exhibition.”

Klaus Kinski cannot be missed

The Freiburg native’s new exhibition can be seen at the Janinebeangallery in Berlin-Mitte until June 13th. It is Giermann’s first exhibition in the city where he studied. His large acrylic paintings on canvas show figures, heads and body fragments. Of course, a portrayal of Klaus Kinski shouldn’t be missed – Giermann’s parodies of the actor have cult status. Kinski was pursuing him in a way, said the 50-year-old. At least in painting this is now over. “This picture is the last one I took of Kinski, that’s why it’s called “The End of the Frenzy”.”

Giermann grew up painting. There was a lot of painting in his parents’ house; his parents were art teachers and there was a studio in the basement. “Since my youngest years I have enjoyed drawing a lot. I would say an above-average amount. And I think I had my first exhibition when I was 8” – although not in a gallery back then, but with the family. Now he has rediscovered painting after a 20-year break.