Playing Faust

Playing Faust

Medium: Oil paint on canvas
Size: 50.5 × 40.5 × 2 cm

As an actor, Goethe’s Faust was a role I would have loved to play. I never had the opportunity to do so on stage – but I could try on the canvas.

This quotation from the play stayed with me throughout the painting process.

“Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.”