1. beginnings: Photography, multi-vision and painting 1965- 1969 During these early years, Helmut Tollmann was experiencing a lot of photographical techniques and chemical procedures.
2. new ways and techniques 1970-1974 Beginning in the early seventies Helmut Tollmann was principally involved in paintings of architecture and landscapes, deeply impressed by the work of Max Ernst.
Max Ernst invented a lot of procedures and techniques in modern painting (the frottage, for example) and so did Helmut Tollmann.
Using new colors and the canvas of his work is changing to copper plates, printed circuit boards and so on.
[6] In this time new portraits of people from the music history (Beethoven-Superstar, Wagner, Berlioz…)[7] and the social, political and economical life were painted.
The light as a painting tool used by “the master of color” as the gallery owner, art dealer and artist Markus Roubrocks once said.
With extremely high powered projectors Helmut Tollmann showed just one long time running artwork, that surrounded the people in the church of the lords heart at Singen/Bodensee und two years later on the Hegau-Tower.
In Lyon a single artworks showed by Helmut Tollmann on all the six-story-buildings enclosing the main market place.