In 2016, galerie gugging presented works by Leopold Strobl for the first time. Ten years later, he is one of the gallery’s most renowned artists. To mark our anniversary, we are presenting eleven selected works (2016–2026), one from each year, tracing the development of his artistic practice.

Born in 1960 in Mistelbach, Lower Austria, Leopold Strobl has been attending atelier gugging since 2002. His artistic approach has remained unchanged to this day: he cuts out small photographs from newspapers and reworks them with pencil and coloured pencils, gradually reducing them to the forms he wishes to emphasise. Trees, hills and roads are transformed into dark, compact shapes, while the sky often takes on a shade of green. “I could do this day and night”, he says, “painting the sky green”. He mounts each finished work on paper and signs the back with his personal symbol: a heart with a cross at its centre.

Strobl’s works are held in numerous museum and private collections around the world. In 2024, he was among the artists featured in the 60th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia.