Leogang drawings
Some of these drawings will become available in the next Salon Gallery early 2025. If you are interested to see available ink drawings send a blank email to collection@christophniemann.com to obtain the link to the gallery. If you want to receive our newsletter updates on new available pieces, please add a short note with your email. If you have further questions, don’t hesitate to send us an email.
We released a special edition calendar with high res art prints of some of the most popular ink drawings. You can find more mountain related artworks here.
I could easily drop my projects and instead spend all my time figuring out how to draw trees.
There’s a million ways to draw a leafy tree in the summer — do I treat it like a sculpture, focussing on the overall volume, do I break it down into smaller bulbs, or go all the way down to the endless details of the leaves?
A leafless tree in the winter is entirely different: in a way it’s like an naturally grown pencil drawing, albeit a three dimensional one, with ever decreasing line weights as you move up the branches to the twigs.
Conifers on the other hand are like calligraphy: the branches and needles flow together into broad strokes.
Last fall I went hiking in the Austrian alps (near Leogang) with one of my sons. It was pretty late in the year, so the sun was very low, with a lot of horizontal light giving the forest a remarkable depth.
On the last day we witnessed the first snow of the season. Oh well: snowy trees— those alone would be enough fodder for an entire artistic life.
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Here’s a collection of landscape artworks from the alps in our online gallery.