Franz Josef Noflaner
Franz Josef Noflaner initially worked as a woodcarver and restorer in his father’s business after completing a specialized training and apprenticeship as a sculptor. Noflaner became fascinated with German literature at an early age and began writing his own literary texts, which he later self-published. As an autodidact, he eventually turned to painting in the 1960s and created an extensive oeuvre of oil paintings and drawings over the following decades. Beyond all norms, Noflaner’s paintings depicted a colorful world populated by mythical creatures, full of fears, doubts, and questions, expressing the conflict between idealism and reality. The social outsider had found a way to escape his difficult reality through literature and later through visual art.
