- born in Dresden - evening studies of painting at the HfbK Dresden - studies painting and sculpture at the Academy of Arts Düsseldorf - Master student with  Prof. Tony Cragg

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Markus Honerla

Honerla‘s paintings sneak surprisingly into the viewer’s life.

They lead to new terrain whose existence we only suspected.

They invite us to spend our days and nights with them.

They are like a good friend.

a good friend

M  TEL IV

2024 | Lacquer + Oil on Canvas 60 x 90 cm

                                           

Tanz mit Günther III - Dance with Günther III - Günther Hornig * 5 March 1937 in Bitterfeld; † 18 September 2016 in Dresden was a German painter, graphic artist, object artist and university lecturer
Am Wasser VII - At the harbor, whoever has the sea needs less. And as old as mankind is the longing for the distance. This time, my heart, this time you're coming with us. (Element of Crime)
Diner - COURAGE IS REWARDED! The painting was already hanging more than a while in the exhibition room and then it had to go back to the studio again ... et voilà: MUT WIRD BELOHNT!
Reflexion III - Revised after 7 years. Courage is rewarded!
Nala II - Those who have the sea need less.
Nala II - Courage is rewarded!
Nala II - Those who have the sea need less.
Nala II - Courage is rewarded!
Nala II - Happy living with paintings.
Lichter LV - “For the world had to be seen before it was painted, and felt before it was thought.” Karl Ove Knausgård
Lichter LXVI - Blurred Lights
Happy Living with Paintings
Lichter II - Courage is rewarded!
Lichter LIX - Courage is rewarded!
In all my dreams, dear. - Courage is rewarded!
Lichter XXVII - Courage is rewarded!
Lichter XLVI - Blurred Lights
Lichter XLV - Blurred Lights
M  OTEL V - Create a picture of a motel at night!  Unfortunately, I can't create pictures because I'm a text-based KL wizard. But I can help you create a detailed description of a motel at night that you can then use to paint a picture or create it with a graphics program. Here is one possible description:
M  OTEL VI - The motel stands alone on a quiet country road, surrounded by dark, shady trees that sway gently in the night breeze. The motel's neon sign glows a warm orange and red, with the words "Moonlight Motel" in ornate script. Some of the letters blink slightly, giving the place a nostalgic charm. Below the sign is a small parking lot with a few cars parked, their windows reflecting the light of the street lamps.
M  OTEL VII - The motel room windows are partially lit, and a soft yellow light shines through the curtains. Some guests are still awake, and their shadows can be seen behind the curtains. Outside the main entrance is an old bench with a single lamp emitting a warm yellow light. In the distance, the outlines of mountains can be seen against the starry night sky, and the soft chirping of crickets fills the air. If you'd like to create an image, you could use this description as inspiration, or share it with an artist or image generation class. Happy creating!
bunt -
gelb -
rot -
blau -
grün -
grau -
Land I - Landscape
Land II - Landscape
Land III - Landscape
Land IV - Landscape
Land V - Landscape
Land VI - Landscape
Land VII - Landscape
Land VIII - Landscape
Le fauteuil jaune de Matisse -
L'été de Matisse -
Live with pictures! Pictures are for everywhere!
Am Wasser I -
Am Wasser III -
Am Wasser II -
Am Wasser V -
Dorfschönheit - Village beauty
Ufer - shore
L'ART D'AIMER - THE ART OF LOVE
Mit Bildern leben! Living with pictures!
EVERLAST -
Ein Spiel und ein Zeitvertreib -
2013 -
Swimmingpool -
Love Ranch -
Die Einsicht bleibt -
Fütterung - feeding
Terra incognita I -
Terra incognita III -
Terra incognita II -
Terra incognita IV -
Terra incognita V -
Terra incognita VII -
Terra incognita VIII -
Terra incognita IX -
Terra incognita X -
März - March
Toro y Torero - Bull and bullfighter
Architektin, 41 -
Mama - Mum Mummy
Carolin -
Liz -
Engel - Angel
Ellida -
Test hanging without obligation and free of charge
Test hanging without obligation and free of charge
Test hanging without obligation and free of charge
Ellida - Woman from the sea in Berlin
Was? - What?
Violetta -
Tilda -
Cécile -
Kleine Lesende (mit) Grete - Little reader
Le Manteau - the coat
"Le Manteau" with sculpture Thomas Kühnapfel
Once Upon a Time -
Le Génie de la Liberté -
Chess! -
BYE BYE P. -
PHOTO -
mehr Malerei auf honerla.com mit Radensleben Transporte und büro quer
Mach‘s gut, Manitu! - Take care Manitu!
Ich vermute, auch sie hat von meinem  Wodka getrunken. (nach Raymond Carver)  I suspect she drank some of my vodka too. (after Raymond Carver)
AUDREY (Wissant) -
ALL OF US -
Studie - study
MAYFLOWER -
SUMMER -
Aber das ist eine andere Geschichte. - But this is another story.
Fenster - window
Brain Y. K. -
IQ -
Funny Face I -
Funny Face II -
Morgenstern - Morning star
o. T. - untitled
Neu-Amerika - New America
o. T. - untitled
24 HOURS -
genug - enough
play! -
o. T. - untitled
Seestück - seascape
Rama Lama Ding Dong -
Ma nuit chez Maud -
Night Vision -
  x im    bor -
o. T. -
Selbst in Farbe -
My god, what does she want? -
Ideal -
Pin-up -
ASA NISI MASA -
SCHÖN - beautiful nice lovely
Markus Honerla Self 2024

born in Dresden

Evening course in painting at Dresden University of Fine Arts

Studies in painting and sculpture at Düsseldorf Art Academy

Master student of Prof. Tony Cragg

Contact

Markus Honerla

Gustav-Freytag-Str. 13

01277 Dresden, Germany 

+49 172 4406569




Simply put, the blurred lights illuminate the part of an image that is full of mystery and magic.



The Sea


Be the gleam of my eye

When the night comes on

And give me your wildly pounding hearth

And the aching fury of your waves

Against the storm and against the icy grip of time.

So that my longing shines in the riddles of your depths

And flies up with the chants of the floating shore.


                                         Sabine Aurich-Rogge exhibition opening, 2022



Markus Honerla’s abstract painting is characterised by his intense engagement in sculpture and painting during his studies at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, as a master student of Tony Cragg, as well as later in photography and digital image processing. What really fascinates him about painting is the immediacy of real time. Nothing can be limited, blown up or repeated as if using a computer. Painting requires maximum skills. His artistic experiences in several genres give his work its distinctive style. Relievos consisting of fine parallel lines reveal layers and structures moving apart from one context and being slid over others. These structures and fragments allow for different perspectives on various worlds at just one look.


                                The Frankfurt Art Experience, 2020



It’s all about colour

Markus Honerla has worked in several genres, 

but what really got him is painting.


Tony Cragg, Richard Serra, Magdalena Jetelová, Bruce Nauman, Donald Judd – when Markus Honerla enumerates the names of people who influenced him during his studies at Düsseldorf Art Academy, it sounds like a personnel list of Documenta during the 1980s and 90s. In Düsseldorf, the first division team of artists had gathered, they were teaching at the academy, making exhibitions. Before, Honerla had attended the evening painting course in Dresden, and not just compared to that, Düsseldorf must have seemed to him like enormous freedom: openness between the different genres of art – from photography to stage design – instead of physical separation between the subjects painting and sculpture, open-mindedness for all currents of this world instead of regional echo chambers. 

While Honerla was increasingly focusing on the field of sculpturing when he lived in Düsseldorf, today painting is central to him. That there had been a long chapter of digital image processing in Berlin during the 00s should also be mentioned. What we see now is flawless flatware for the wall, created in the classical way using brush and paint. The beginning is marked by one specific painting: “ASA NISI MASA” from 2007. It is one of the first paintings Markus Honerla brought onto the canvas after about 20 years of abstinence from painting. A start going along with the insight that the contact between artist and canvas is immediate and direct. Whatever appears on it comes up in real time and is neither limited by a computer’s processing power, nor by the usual technical effort typical for the sculpturing scene of the 1990s. Compared to that, painting is a downright organic way of working with minimum use of resources, but still requiring maximum skills in order to give a sentiment shape and colour. In case of Honerla, structure also plays a role. In his strictly black and white series “Land”, it is decisive: Relievos of fine parallel lines create forms, widen into landscapes. In his études, however, the paint appears as if cut out of paper strips. In general, Honerla quite often uses collage looks, but he creates them using paint only. Filmogen lacquers, by the way, put on top of one another, building several layers. And it is exactly this technique that seems to close the circle – to sculpturing, when Honerla understands the individual applied paints as delimited layers and juxtaposes matt and shiny surfaces in an extremely exact way. As well as to digital image processing, when forms detach from their context, suddenly, and are being laid over others by Honerla.

Ultimately, it is all about paint and colour. Not as a texture, but as red, yellow, and blue. The three elementary colours creating all those brilliant paintings.


                                         Siiri Klose, 2018