Madness Painting

Joey Schmidt-Muller - Traumatische Sachlichkeit. Joey Schmidt-Muller is an active member of the German Avantgarde Scene. Moving from Later Surrealism and the New Objectivity, he joined the already established Vienna School of the Fantastic Realism. The confrontation with social criticism led to Joey’s new style, “The Traumatic Realism”, as a development of the New Objectivity of 1933. Pain, torture, nightmares and fears scream at us in creatures dancing and fighting, diving and flying who are intended to arouse our level of consciousness and lead us from our condition of prisoners to self-liberation. The artworks of Joey Schmidt-Muller (pseudonym "Josua" until 1986) are located in various art collections in Switzerland, Germany, Ungarn & Israel. Endress & Hauser art collection, Germany. The Ernesto Schmidt art collection, Switzerland and the Carl Laszlo art collection, Hungary.