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GABRIEL HINTENAUS: SO WIE ES NIE WAR
Oil on canvas
100 × 70
2026
"So wie es nie war" ("As it never was"), expresses a nostalgic or perhaps melancholic feeling. Its the mountain of my childhood, in the background and a ghostly blurred figure in the foreground. The figure feels out of place, doesnt belong here, just like me in a foreign coutnry.
But it is too late now to go back, the memories have been made, the past is gone.
The home we long for has become a place that exists only in our minds and is ultimaelty a fiction that is as it never was.
Oil on canvas
100 × 70
2026
"So wie es nie war" ("As it never was"), expresses a nostalgic or perhaps melancholic feeling. Its the mountain of my childhood, in the background and a ghostly blurred figure in the foreground. The figure feels out of place, doesnt belong here, just like me in a foreign coutnry.
But it is too late now to go back, the memories have been made, the past is gone.
The home we long for has become a place that exists only in our minds and is ultimaelty a fiction that is as it never was.