Helmut Koller
Helmut Koller is an Austrian artist based
in Palm Beach, Florida. As a professional
photographer, he spent his early
career capturing important figures
of the opera and ballet and contributing
to fashion magazines. Koller
abandoned photography for painting
in 1988 and yet the style that he has
now established does not depart too
far from his roots as a photographer.
Koller has an extensive body of work
of photorealistic paintings depicting
animals. This realism is hindered by a
striking alteration to the animal’s fur.
Rather than what we predict the animal’s
colors to be, Koller paints them
in saturated, synthetic hues. This ranging
color application to various species
from the animal kingdom has
been designated the title Kollerism.
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