Harry Meyer’s mountain pictures show not only a section of the alpine mountain world, but all areas from the green valley floor to the wooded flanks up to the tree line and over ever steeper rock faces up to the summit. The colors of the vegetation and the light on the landscape have been chosen with care. Meadows, coniferous forests, ice, melting snow, different types of rock, sharp folds, shadows of mountain ridges or side valleys can be read from the masses of color almost like a naturalistic painting.

In view of this perception, it is all the more astonishing that Meyer apparently goes about his work with rough gestures and vehement forces. In fact, his works are naturalistic and abstract, subjective and objective at the same time. They unite different ways of perceiving the mountain world. The apparent opposites of objective observation and individual expression interpenetrate and complement each other.