SüessART Academy
Professional advanced and targeted specialized courses in small groups
The current offer of the SüessART Academy provides you with the basis and all possibilities for discovering and expanding new and individual forms of expression in a professional environment.
We grant you a quiet and safe work in small groups (max. 4-5 participants) in our suitable studio atmosphere with spacious, bright workplaces. In the confrontation with colors, materials and forms we awaken and expand your artistic potential.
If you would like to immerse yourself intensively in the world of painting, we recommend a professional painting workshop lasting several days. As described at ifolor, you are also in good hands as a beginner.
SüessART Academy
Sagenstrasse 20a, CH-Dagmersellen
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Themes / Dates 2024
Build up – fill in – rediscover
D2024-09 / 10.12. – 13.12.2024 / 4 days / CHF 630.-
How do colors change through the superimposition of material surfaces? How is the impression of surface effect and image depth created? How do form overlaps, ambiguous structures and tension of the planes arise? Through the courageous development of generous layers, new possibilities of expression and the reflection of the ‘magic of the material’ in different work processes, we experience the physicality of the picture.
In dialogue with the color we process unusual materials with patient work to different structural levels and thus create a multi-dimensional picture with depth. We condense the expression of the picture and interlink several layers of painting in numerous work processes. You will be gifted with an exciting image statement that allows you to discover fascinating structures and develop artistic concepts.
This workshop is aimed at beginners as well as advanced students who would like to expand their handicraft and creative repertoire.
Themes / Dates 2025
Powerful, generous and free into the painting year
D2025-01 / 07.01. – 10.01.2025 / 4 Days / CHF 630.-
We work together step by step to create authentic, large-scale paintings in mixed media. We process unusual materials on canvas, collage, overpaint and reduce. By condensing numerous contrasting layers, the multi-dimensional picture with depth is created with free and powerful work.
With my support, your own instinct and plenty of courage to experiment, we will develop a personal visual language. The aim is for you to learn to handle the new techniques with confidence, to work out your compositions with courage and to immerse yourself in the wonderful world of creative expression.
This course is aimed at anyone who is open to new approaches.
Awaken your artistic potential
D2025-02 / 04.03. – 07.03.2025 / 4 Days / CHF 630.-
With my support, your own instinct and plenty of courage to experiment, we will awaken your artistic potential and develop a personal visual language. The aim is for you to learn to handle the new techniques with confidence, to develop your compositions with courage and to immerse yourself in the wonderful world of creative expression.
We will work together step by step to create authentic, large-scale paintings using mixed media. We process unusual materials on canvas, collage, overpaint and reduce. By condensing numerous contrasting layers, we will create a multi-dimensional picture with depth through free and powerful work.
This course is aimed at those who are open to new approaches.
Reduce for powerful expression
D2025-03 / 01.04. – 04.04.2025 / 4 Days / CHF 630.-
More and more regulations and standards are shaping our lives. We want to free ourselves from these constraints through painting. Characterized by emotions, intuition, spontaneity and pure energy – paired with knowledge from the ‘magic of the material’ – I will accompany you.
The theme of this workshop is to create a calm, relief-like surface structure despite the generous use of material and color. We will work our way through our own worlds of form towards compositional order and reduction, and together we will follow paths that will bring us closer to the essence of a personal painting step by step – without giving up its vitality, strength and depth.
This course is aimed at those who are open to new approaches.
What next? – Finishing (finish painting)
D2025-04 / 14.05. – 16.05.2025 / 3 Days / CHF 480.-
Who doesn’t know them – the works that are never quite finished! When is a painting finished? This is a big question for all painters. However, doubts or uncertainties can often be resolved more easily when viewing and discussing in a small group.
How can different shapes or areas of color be combined to create a large, successful composition? Which parts of the picture will gain new expressive power through targeted reduction or even omission? Which color combinations, which ‘eye-catcher’ brings additional tension or even decisive depth and attention to the picture?
We will work together on various possibilities and techniques for completing the paintings you have prepared and brought with you (we will not start any new works in this workshop). We will deepen our knowledge of image structure and composition.
The ‘Finisher Workshop’ is aimed at advanced students and painters who have experience of working with acrylics or who may have already taken a course with Robert Süess (not compulsory).
With impressions directly into the material image
D2025-05 / 23.06. – 27.06.2025 / 5 Days / CHF 780.-
Creativity is always a step into the unknown. The central theme of this course is inspiring and motivating work and translating your own lively world of ideas into the actual painting.
It is about the courageous development of powerful impressions in generous layering, new ways of expressing moods and the reflection of natural life processes in concrete material and spatial references. I love the ‘magic of the material’. Together we create surfaces with depth in several steps before we condense, reduce and bring the pictorial expression to an expressive finish in dialog with the world of color.
This course is aimed at those who are open to new approaches.
Finding motifs for your own visual language
D2025-06 / 18.08. – 22.08.2025 / 5 Days / CHF 780.-
In this course I will introduce you to your own creative path through a free and courageous way of working – away from previous constraints, guidelines and restrictions, but through new impressions. A surprising and uninhibited interplay of technical possibilities is complemented by your own world of ideas.
You will practise the impulsive gesture that gives a picture its expressiveness and reveals the freedom of the painter. You will experience a new creative and artistic process, both experimentally and expressively, which will lead you further into your artistic signature. Embark on a creative journey of discovery and join me on an unstoppable, unrestrained and in-depth plunge into the world of color and material.
This course is aimed at those who are open to new approaches.
Impressions in the colorful autumn
D2025-07 / 08.09. – 12.09.2025 / 5 Days / CHF 780.-
Creativity is always a step into the unknown. The central theme of this course is inspiring and motivating work and translating your own lively world of ideas into the actual painting.
It is about the courageous development of powerful impressions in generous layering, new ways of expressing moods and the reflection of natural life processes in concrete material and spatial references. I love the ‘magic of the material’. Together we create surfaces with depth in several steps before we condense, reduce and bring the pictorial expression to an expressive finish in dialog with the world of color.
This course is aimed at those who are open to new approaches.
What next? – Finishing (finish painting)
D2025-08 / 22.10. – 24.10.2025 / 3 Days / CHF 480.-
Who doesn’t know them – the works that are never quite finished! When is a painting finished? This is a big question for all painters. However, doubts or uncertainties can often be resolved more easily when viewing and discussing in a small group.
How can different shapes or areas of color be combined to create a large, successful composition? Which parts of the picture will gain new expressive power through targeted reduction or even omission? Which color combinations, which ‘eye-catcher’ brings additional tension or even decisive depth and attention to the picture?
We will work together on various possibilities and techniques for completing the paintings you have prepared and brought with you (we will not start any new works in this workshop). We will deepen our knowledge of image structure and composition.
The ‘Finisher Workshop’ is aimed at advanced students and painters who have experience of working with acrylics or who may have already taken a course with Robert Süess (not compulsory).
Winter thoughts freely realized
D2025-09 / 09.12. – 12.12.2025 / 4 Days / CHF 630.-
Creativity is always a step into the unknown. The central theme of this course is inspiring and motivating work and translating your own lively world of ideas into the actual painting.
It is about the courageous development of powerful impressions in generous layering, new ways of expressing moods and the reflection of natural life processes in concrete material and spatial references. I love the ‘magic of the material’. Together we create surfaces with depth in several steps before we condense, reduce and bring the pictorial expression to an expressive finish in dialog with the world of color.
This course is aimed at those who are open to new approaches.
