Mein Garten 1926

Leo Putz animated ‘Mein Garten’ with oil paint using loose brushstrokes and a vibrant colour palette. Can you just imagine him standing there, mixing the sunny yellows, the leafy greens, and the sky blues, trying to capture the feeling of a day in his garden? There is something so satisfying about the heft of the paint he uses, how it sits on the canvas like dollops of memory and sensation. Look at the sunflowers, how they seem to almost burst out of the painting with their thick, textured petals. I love how Putz’s brush dances between detail and abstraction, hinting at forms without fully defining them. This makes me think of other painters like Bonnard, who could turn an ordinary scene into something magical and strange. It’s clear that artists build on each other’s visions. Painting is a conversation across time, a shared language of feeling and seeing that refuses to be pinned down.