The overarching theme in Axel Geis oeuvre is painting. Painting not only as a medium but primarily in the form of the technique, i.e., the application of wet colors by brush on a painting surface in all its possibilities. The artist is especially interested in the – almost unconscious – process of the genuinely painterly. The object of the painting itself, the subject, recedes behind this process. Nevertheless, it is primarily portraits and figures (and occasionally animals) on which the artist conducts his painterly studies. Although the depiction of people, in particular, seems to have been robbed of a large part of their individuality and does not represent portraits in the classical sense, the results are astonishingly diverse.
