<<The works of Viktor R. often form series, which are always intense explorations of a given subject, whether it is the individual within a web of complex social and private relationships, or eroticism, or the variety of energy fields in our lives. The figures seem to rise up from the depths of the subconscious, from our genetic memory. The background typical of this artist is light and pulsating, and fascinating in its shimmering vitality

The works of Viktor R. derive their impact not only from the painting itself, but also from the fascinating interplay of signs and symbols, which the viewer delights in discovering. They invite us to travel deep into our own subconscious.

A recurring theme in Viktor R. work is eroticism, the complex, often painful and yet beautiful relationship between man and woman, the "battle of the sexes", in which there are no winners or losers. In his portrayal of nudes, the artist expresses sexuality, loneliness, suffering, love and hate.

Today Viktor R. increasingly inclines towards abstracton and refuses to represent reality per se. The artist's adoption of abstraction marks a new phase, in which he escapes the entancing appearance of the material world in order to show the pain the human soul suffers, in every era, under the burden of mortal passion.>>

Joseph Kiblitsky
Director of exhibition projects, Editor of book production at the Russian State Museum and Director of Museum Ludwig at the Russian Museum in his preface of the book "Viktor R. | Works"
(ISBN-3-935298-63-3).


<<It was the depiction of the human figure, and the associated confrontation with human existence and destiny, that spurred Viktor R. to take up work as an artist himself. Enthusiasm, vitality and talent have led to the creation – in his studios in Cologne and on Ibiza – of an oeuvre that already numbers, in the third year of the third millennium, over 400 works, many of them in large formats. As a consequence of the intensity of inward and outward experience – that is, of feeling and observation – combined with a modern strategy of pictorial thinking, the artist's work to date does not adopt any single unified painting style.

The figurative works of Viktor R. tend, gradually and in very different ways, towards abstraction. Conversely, abstract colour forms are transformed into representational art by means of sequential arrangement and rhythmic elements.

In Viktor R.'s work, stylistic diversitiy means plurality of subjects, which he unifies in series of drawings and paintings. The serial character evident in his works is connected, for the artist, with "inner necessity", as Kandinsky once termed it. This applies to the profoundly impressive, very large landscape-format works from 2003, wich the painter calls "figustract".
With this term he is alluding to the deliberate symbiosis of two different modes of art in these large-format works – namely abstract and representational art. These were contraposed in the middle of the 20th century as apparently irreconcilable opposites. The two have long since been reconciled, and this reconciliation takes on a totally new quality in the acrylic paintings of Viktor R.>>

Prof. Günther Wirth
Art critic in the preface of the book "Viktor R. | Works"
(ISBN-3-935298-63-3).



The works of Viktor R. have three different styles:
"Figurative" (including Portraits), "Abstract" and "Figustract".