About Harry Ergott

The Austrian painter Harry Ergott takes his inspiration from the proponents of modernism, particularly abstract expressionists, and from studying traditional genres such as portraiture. His paintings represent an accomplished symbiosis of his various artistic influences. Since his studies as a graphic artist, Harry Ergott has drawn on art history and the most varied techniques to find his own way.

His journey of self-expression began in music studios and Musicians shaped him as an artist. So he harnesses the melodies of the human form and channel them onto canvas. In art school, the Higher Federal Graphic and Research Institute Vienna, he gained an appreciation for the architecture of the human body sculpted into life. His inspiration is coming from the emerging of the Fin-de-Siècle artistic movement as masters set the body free from formalism with a pictural work based on spontaneity.