Mischetechnik Paintings

About Michetechnik

WHAT IS MISCHTECHNIK ? The almost forgotten old master techniques of painting, like Mischtechnik, used by many of the Rennaissance masters, was actually never totally abandoned but handed down from master to student over centuries. It was always in use in an unbroken chain, even if obscure and rarely taught at any art school or university. Aside from the great desemination of this knowledge by Pietro Anigonni and Prof Phil & Mantra's mentor, Ernst Fuchs and the Vienna School of Fantastic Realists, there have been a number of Masters of Mischtechnik over the last hundred years. This has included Barthel Giles, Otto Dix, Thomas Hart Benton, Paul Cadmus, Robert S. Smulyan, Franz Gertsch to name a few. In Mischtechnik, the method itself creates a sense of living luminosity. Such attention to the creative practice results in paintings embodying a process of alchemical transformation, in which the physical matter of painting itself, the ground pigment, the egg, the oil, emulsions, and hand made mediums are transmuted through the agency of our craft into extraordinary vision. Philip Rubinov-Jacobson

This Gallery is dedicated to the work I have have done in my studies of Mischtechnik with Philip Rubinov-Jacobson around the world. The painting shown above is one I painted in Mischtechnik on the island of Ibiza in Spain.

The group photo is our seminar group with Master Ernst Fuchs, who led the mischtechnik movement in Austria. This was taken the year before he passed away.

The following are examples of the progression of an image from ground to completion.

Here is a sample of my work in Mischtechnik: Paintings 1, 2 and 3are finished and Paintings 4 and 5 are works in process.