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Peter Weidenbaum (Antwerp, 1968) is a Belgian visual artist and the owner of Smiřice Castle. In the old rooms, once home to the Trčka family and later the Liebiegs, he has his studio today. Since 2004 he has been heading into the Czech forests, a landscape that has never let him go. He paints it in the spirit of Romanticism and of the Czech landscape painters František Kaván and Ferdinand Engelmüller: tall trunks, moss on the rocks, light falling between the trees, and now and then a lone figure following the path. An important source is Prachovské skály, the rock landscape of the Bohemian Paradise, less than an hour's drive from the castle. In 2022 he showed this series in the solo exhibition “Holzwege” at the Jiri Svestka Gallery in Prague, the gallery that represents him internationally. What begins outside in the forest thus returns indoors, where it grows further on canvas in the castle.
Prachovské skály (Veduta), 2022, 200 × 210 cm – Die Vatersuche II, 2022, 140 × 200 cm
Holzwege, 2022, 100 × 120 cm – Lost in Thought, 2022, 100 × 120 cm
Girl with iPhone, 2022, 90 × 100 cm – Girl with iPhone (study), 2022, 90 × 100 cm
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