Franziska Krumbachner
dig deeper, 2023
Öl auf Leinwand Oil on canvas
20 x 30 cm
It’ll make you feel better, 2022
Öl auf Platte Oil on board
40 x 30 cm
It was coming to an end, 2021
Öl auf Platte Oil on board
30 x 40 cm
Hidden within the folds of the fabric, the quiet hum of memories lingers, 2022
Öl auf Leinwand Oil on canvas
20 x 30 cm
tongue-tied, 2025
Öl auf Leinwand Oil on canvas
80 x 60 cm
These strings I’m in, 2024
Öl auf Leinwand Oil on canvas
60 x 50 cm
Ohne Titel Untitled, 2023
Sechs Zeichnungen auf Papier Six drawings on paper
29 x 42 cm
Never coming home, 2021
Öl auf Leinwand Oil on canvas
40 x 40 cm
Protocol, 2024
Öl auf Leinwand Oil on canvas
80 x 60 cm
Ohne Titel Untitled, 2023
Fünf Zeichnungen auf Papier Five drawings on paper
29 x 42 cm
I am not alone. You are always with me. I don’t know what’s worse, 2022
Oil on board
40 x 30 cm
It’s still happening, 2025
Oil on canvas
100 x 80 cm
Your heart is an empty room, 2021
Oil on board
40 x 30 cm
I want to be normal, 2021
Oil on board
30 x 21 cm
Nobody knows, 2021
Oil on board
25 x 30 cm
I want to be a baby again, 2023
Oil on board
45 x 30 cm
The visitant, 2024
Oil on canvas
50 x 40 cm
Twisted play, 2025
Oil on canvas
80 x 60 cm
Courtesy the artist
Franziska Krumbachner (b. 2002, Altötting, Germany) is currently studying at Offenbach University of Art and Design. She is a painter and drawer. In her oil paintings, she seeks to understand, process, and capture lived experiences in visual form.
Even as a young girl, Franziska Krumbachner drew constantly—as a kind of intimate diary and as a retreat into an inner world. She developed her skills as an autodidact and has continued to refine them over the years. Her motifs arise from dreams and memories that resurface like flashbacks of repressed experiences. Flickering emotions crystallise into images: rooms, narrow corridors, close-ups of body parts, and dysmorphic faces in black and white, folded hands. She always paints from the perspective of a cinematic point-of-view shot—that is, from the narrator’s gaze. As a result, her works carry a distinctly filmic quality.
Krumbachner has recently begun working with digital sketches developed on a tablet. She then freely recreates these compositions onto canvas. The resulting collages merge imagery from internal landscapes with found material sourced from the internet. As Krumbachner works exclusively with oil paints, which she applies to her canvases undiluted, she succeeds in creating highly transparent, delicate layers in which image planes blend into one another, evoking the photographic technique of double exposure.
We would like to let Franziska Krumbachner speak for herself. She describes her work in the following words: “I am an oil painter, and my art is much more than just a form of expression—it is my language, my anchor. My life has been shaped by trauma and mental illness, and painting is not just a passion for me, but a necessity. It helps me make the unspeakable visible and navigate a world that often feels overwhelming. I am deeply grateful to have found this path—a form of communication that goes beyond words and expresses what lives deep within me.”
Franziska Krumbachner (b. 2002, Altötting, DE) has been studying at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach (DE) since 2022. She was admitted based on her outstanding artistic achievements. She focuses on experimental spatial concepts with Prof Heiner Blum and painting with Prof Gunter Reski.
In 2024, she won the Rundgangpreis of the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach am Main, awarded by Künstlerhilfe Frankfurt e. V., and received a Deutschlandstipendium.
Since 2020, Krumbachner has presented her works in various exhibitions, including at the Stadtgalerie Altötting (DE), in Burghausen (DE), at the Stadtgalerie in Bad Soden am Taunus (DE), and at Schloss Fasanerie in Fulda (DE).
