When I first encountered the works of Lukas Walcher, I was impressed by his feeling for form, his sure line, his courage and his confidence in color, which testifies to a stupendous sense of color. His powerful drawings, his lively colorful paintings in wonderfully bright but never garish colors do not leave the viewer indifferent. They have the power to be transferred into the subconscious to experience and be touched internally.

The human body, especially the female one, fascinates Lukas Walcher. He reduces it to its basic forms, disassembles and alienates it – and thereby concentrates it on the essentials. Even in what at first glance appears to be an informal work, a closer look reveals eyes, mouths and female figures. He achieves an inner independence from the image of nature that enables him to create a higher reality out of shapes and colors. In addition to the bright colors, the graphic element – in line and contour – is an essential part of his work. But you can always feel the spontaneity and power in his work.

Reduced, clear, sometimes almost striking, he does not lose himself in details, he abstracts – and by “omitting the unnecessary”, as Walter Koschatzky put it, the effect is all the stronger. This is exactly what Herwart Walden – editor of the “Sturm”, an important journal of expressionism – spoke about in Berlin in 1912 when he said: “The painter does not paint the impression from the outside, but the expression from the inside…”