After completing her studies at the Academy of fine arts in Poznan, Barbara
Kroll settled in Maintal near Frankfurt am Main in Germany, where she lives and
works.
Her paintings and drawings have an enormous directness and
expressiveness and in general they are about defining the visual sense in her
own peticular way. Her work is a result of her correspondence with reality. Her
personal way of trying to deal with the environment by creating a bearable
reality. Within an era dominated by visual culture, the most important themes
and motives that Barbara Kroll expresses within her artistic oeuvre, are her
intense, emotionally charged paintings and drawings that deal with basic but
prominent topics that are a result of a particular situation and extraordinary
compilation of things. Simplicity is very important for her art.
By reviewing her work, one could discover influences that can be related to
the unconventional and style of the Austrian painter Egon Schiele (1890 -1918),
a major figurative painter of the early 20th century who's work is noted
characterized for its intensity and the expressive line or the South African
artist Marlene Dumas (1953).
