The Empire of Colors of the famous German artist and best known representative of "Fantastic Naturalism" definitely delivers a cornucopia of impressions that hardly any other artist of modern times could equal.

Anyone familiar with only a few of the popular works by Carl-W. Röhrig cannot help but compare him to great and famous artists like Salvador Dali, Max Ernst or Hiernoymus Bosch. If there is a visible indication of the 'idyllic', romantic loneliness of Caspar David Friedrich's paintings, from which Röhrig, with his exceptional techniques is able to conjure up "heavenly scenes", he is honored by being compared with these important artists as his artistic models.

But as a viewer - and you, dear friend of the arts will have to agree - it is impossible to say nothing about the amazing details in brilliant colors, composed out of sophisticatedly mixed techniques, oil color and parts done with airbrush. One is forced to think in order to consume the whirl of emotions and quickly changing colors, forms and hidden messages, that is how intense the impression is.

Röhrig awakens long-lost dreams about aestheticism the flawlessness of freedom, that longing, which speaks out of many of his paintings and - as he states himself - is a constant component of the inner striving of all human beings. This may explain his popularity: the viewers of his paintings feel deeply touched.

Volker von Barkawitz
Publisher of the illustrated book "The Future is never Ending - The Fantastic Naturalism of Carl-W. Röhrig"