As a high school student, Hermann Kremsmayer began as an architectural painter, juxtaposing facades with interior spaces. After attending the University of Fine Arts in Vienna, Kremsmayer spent months and years wandering through cities in Europe and the USA. Of the places he spent several years studying, Barcelona is worth mentioning, where he made personal acquaintances with the artists Joan Hernández Pijuan and Antoni Tàpies. In 2012, he moved into a studio on the site of the “Brotfabrik” in Vienna. Kremsmayer's paintings are a dense web of cultural memories. Spatial depths created in chiaroscuro transitions are brought to life with waves of color. These form an empathetic relationship and are emotional carriers of mutual recognition and fertilization. The color spaces like light waves are an ideal counterpart for longings and fantasies. From the late 1990s onwards, Kremsmayer merged the abstract with the figurative, and now color, texture and form come to the fore. His dialogue with art history shows romantic support. Echoes of post-performance painting in a neo-expressionist sense can be detected.