Labor and Art are Married in German Painter’s Brush

H.D. Tylle is a man with a dual mission: to dignify labor and put a human face on mass-produced products. His principal tool is the paint brush; his dominant muse is modern technology.
Tylle specializes in the relatively ignored field of industrial art.
Along the way, he has captured scenes in workplaces that few artists - or members of the general public, for that matter - have visited.
He has immortalized factory scenes and individual laborers, and underscored the importance of America’s shrinking industrial base.

And he’s enjoyed every painful, dangerous, gut-wrenching moment of it.
“In my art,” Tylle said, “I am attempting to reach two levels: people who are involved in art but don’t know about working circumstances, and people working in factories who are normally not involved in art.”
In the course of his long career, Tylle said, he has sought to follow the example of Vincent Van Gogh by actually going where the workers are to depict them. [...]

JAMES AUER, Milwaukee, Journal Sentinel Art Critic

Iphofen, Deutschland, 2009, 75x140 cm, Öl/Lw