Wilhelm Neusser

Wilhelm Neusser is a painter whose atmospheric landscapes draw on the legacy of German Romanticism while reframing its ideals through the lens of 21st-century environmental precarity. His work explores how land continues to register the sublime - not as heroic grandeur, but as a fragile, shifting presence shaped by ecological uncertainty and perceptual complexity. Depicting verdant hills, craggy peaks, or luminous skies, Neusser’s paintings are based on observation, memory, and imagination instigating reflection on how beauty, landscape, and time interweave in an era of environmental change. The human figure appears as stand-in for our own experience of nature as both, vulnerable resource and treacherous terrain.

Born in Cologne, Germany, Neusser studied at Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe and at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe. Neusser resided in Cologne until his relocation to the United States in 2011 and now lives and works in Somerville, MA. His work is represented through Abigail Ogilvy Gallery in Los Angeles, and he teaches at Boston University’s College of Fine Arts.