Klara Koitler

Born in Worms, 1954.

Since 1979 I live on Ithaca. There I started painting – self-taught; with water colors and pencil work. For now 25 years I work on canvas with acrylic and dispersion colors, crayons and oil pastels.

Painting means to be in the center of an origin process.
I compose free…intuitive. No sketches, photos or models.
Painting figures is my main interesst….the abstraction – the essence – attracts.
Long time I spend in front of a blanc canvas projecting differrent images…
…and then, with the first brush-stroke this freedom of phantasy ceases –
but the discovery of a new picture commences.

The starting game with strokes and colors gets targeted when I discover a face that motivates to develop a figure…mostly a female one.
Often the face is the turning point of the metamorphosis of a painting.Over days, months, even years a painting can change – develope.

Changing a detail demands other changes and suddenly the whole painting can tip over
and pass through a big Transformation.
I speak of „young“ and „old“ Pictures. I always work on several paintings in parallel.
When a figure tires my nervs….I don`t know what to change and where to go to
…then I concentrate to an other painting..

Little greek Scenes with chairs and tables, birds, fishes, cats…..sometimes a flower.

Besides painting I live with my family, cats and dog in the ecological village of Sarakiniko. I garden, take care of old olive trees (some of them are more than 1000 years old) and harvest my own oil.

About me

​Klara Koitler

Klara Koitler