Emil Herzog is a European-born artist from Innsbruck, Austria. He studied in Vienna and travelled widely across Europe, where his style took shape. He signs his works with the street signature GERZOG — that’s how the name PAINTINGS FROM GERZOG appeared. All paintings are his originals.
The surname is real — Austrian (Herzog) — but in squats and street workshops he signed works with a sharp, graphic Latin script: GERZOG. The signature gained its own “music”, and the artist — a name people recognised. Born at the foot of the Alps, in Innsbruck. He studied architecture in Vienna and worked part-time in restoration studios, where he learned to respect material and light. He completed internships in Prague and Munich and worked as an assistant at exhibitions in Berlin. He travelled — Lisbon, Krakow, Florence — leaving a small piece in every city, like a bookmark in a book.
In 2017 he came to Vienna “for a couple of months” and stayed much longer: the mix of honest urban texture and living colour struck him. That’s where the style happened — dense layers, palette-knife work, warm palettes, and a golden thread of light that “binds” the composition. He often said that in this city “colour sounds louder than silence” — and that is exactly the volume he paints.
First there were small private shows; then interior commissions and portraits. In 2024 Emil chose transparency: originals, certificates, worldwide shipping — no “prints disguised as paintings”. That’s how PAINTINGS FROM GERZOG appeared.
“When a home lacks colour, it starts to sound like silence. I paint to turn that silence off.”