“Each face possesses a certain exaggeration - want to live on at the beholder.
Perhaps, I look for a specific face, the poetic dimension.” (Carl Köhler)
The artist Carl Köhler (1919-2006) worked in modernistic tradition.
He experimented gladly with different expressions and engineers. He got inspired to his motives by theater, musical, dance and literature. Detailed portraits of authors occupy an unique position in his production. In the exhibition portraits performed in oil, akryl, drawings and grafik, of both Swedish and international authors.
                                                                                                                   - The Strindberg museum

Carl Köhler was an artist with a intense relationship to classical music,
and it was a constant precense in his life.
The exhibit " Images of Dance and Sound" features images embodying music, dance and literature,
which where the sources of inspiration, feeling, power and movement in his paintings.
Or as the artis himself expressed in one of  few comments he made of his own works:
" The image of body language: the development of story drama and play".

It was the body, possibly more then people themselves that Köhler was particulary
devoted to and which spawned  the most creativity in his later works.
With a modernistic tradition as his startingpoint, Köhler reduced and abstracted
bodily forms, thereby bringing them to a new level.
His masterful technique and expression are equally extraordianry in his paitnings
as in his assemblage works, in which he stapled pieces of cloth or glued other
materials to various types of surfaces. Often succeeded a determinedly vital, tactile outer structure.

                                                                                                              - Stockholm Concert House