About Life

‚Art and nature are inextricably linked’ – Johann Brandstetter

Johann Brandstetter is convinced that increasing alienation has led the world into a crisis. This crisis will remain as long as we don’t understand the value of our social and physical environment. So it’s about time that we rediscover a fascination with nature so that its protection becomes voluntary exercise rather than tiresome duty.

His images are spectacular. ‚He’s able to capture the living in a way that penetrates the heart, like no other’, writes Andreas Weber in his introductory essay on Johann Brandstetter and his work. Brandstetter’s work is resembles the ‚slow art’ movement as, similarly, it seduces us into precise gazing and attentive astonishment only through a more patient and decelerated look. The luxuriously illustrated book demonstrates the work of award-winning illustrators as a complex and highly aesthetic panorama of relationships within an endangered nature.