Calm & Collected
Works by Adelheid Rumetshofer, Hans Schüle, and Douglas Witmer
September 26 - November 8, 2025
Galerie Mathias Mayr, Innsbruck Austria
Adelheid Rumetshofer understands her painting as pure dematerialization and reduction of all formal means. Color becomes the determining factor. Rumetshofer works in oil on canvas in translucent layers without any brushwork or bursts of color. The resulting blur dissolves contours into subtle condensations, opening up a diffuse interplay of surface and space of the highest quality. Her paintings thus elude any notion of representationalism or abstraction. Without any tangible reality, the aesthetics of color can be experienced as pictorial content.
Hans Schüle studied sculpture and painting in Munich and Berlin and is internationally sought-after as a steel sculptor. His work includes series of varying scales, including monumental works in public spaces (Germany, Italy, Canada, the USA, and Asia). His formal language incorporates both biomorphic and geometric forms. Schüle develops complex space-generating structures in which he
explores artistic possibilities with the utmost precision.
Douglas Witmer is an internationally renowned artist working in the field of geometric abstraction. Witmer's work testifies to decades of exploration of the materiality of the painted object. His works have been shown internationally in exhibitions and documented in numerous publications. His works are part of various private and public collections, including museum collections. As an exclusive premiere, we are also presenting his current series of 'Schwarzweiß drawings' – small-format works in ink on laid paper that capture landscapes in an associative and spontaneous way.
ADELHEID RUMETSHOFER (AT) – 1976 Freistadt
1997-2003 University of Design, Linz
lives and works in Linz
HANS SCHÜLE (DE) – 1965 Neckarsulm
1991-97 Academy of Fine Arts Munich / HdK Berlin
lives and works in Hohenfels and Berlin
DOUGLAS WITMER (US) – 1971 Winchester/Virginia
2001 The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
lives and works in Philadelphia