Introduction
The Dolphin Series
The series (1993-94) bases on an American management theory ("Dolphin Strategies" by Dudley Lynch and Paul Kurtis) which deals with the behaviour of dolphins in chaotic circumstances and gives advice for economic activities. It makes a difference whether someone thinks as a shark or as a dolphin. The paintings were created during the visit of an interval-seminar, which lasted over a period of 10 weeks.
Painted are the terms which had been explained during the seminar like belief, behaviour, thoughts, feelings, decisions, selections in the first basic painting "Sky, Earth, Water", and desires, wishes, expectations, imagination, pictures in the second basic painting "Water". Each term had been worked out in a further painting.
The paintings are spontaneous interpretations during the seminar and all had been done while listening to a musical cassette of dolphin sounds. Except for one all the paintings have a size of 80 x 100 cm.
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Religious Paintings
The paintings of the John series are created in the Count Art style which had been developed by Leonhard. Count Art bases on the oldest Jewish Kabbalah. It is said that the Hebrew letters are quantitative proportions, which means figures, secondly they are also letters. The Thora consists only of consonants. So the Hebrew alphabet contains 22 consonants, and each equals a number. And figure and letter are identical, they are the same, for example b = 2 and 2 = b.
This notion of number and word has fundamental consequences for the understanding of the sense of creation. It opens ways to understanding of words and contents, which are not possible in other languages in the same way. The Thora can basically not be translated into other languages and its sequence of letters has never been changed.
Count Art uses the identity of number and letter by counting the strokes of the painting. The term was created by Leonhard based on the English word "to count".
The viewer should understand that the visible form isn't the whole of the matter and that wholeness has no form. By counting the strokes it is possible to paint language on the canvas. And by doing this one succeeds in doing to bring a structure into the abstraction.
Count Art was created without any contacts to artists or art experts. Also religious experts were not involved. And, in order to guard against misunderstandings, Leonhard is catholic.
In the mid 1990s Leonhard had had the feeling to be able to paint several thousands of paintings with the subject Gospel of John. But such a project would have required circumstances, for example a workshop and publicity as an artist, which simply were not present. Nevertheless Count Art has the potential to enter art history.
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Portraits and Figurative Paintings
The oldest still existing figurative paintings date back to 1964/65 in form of two selfportrait drawings.
Besides realistic portraits, for example "Romy Schneider" and experiments with the pointilism, Leonhard applies the stroke-counting technique to paintings of people as well. The portraits come into being by using the name of the painted person (e.g. "Jzhak Rabin") - the first name "Izhak" limits the number of strokes.
Orders for portraits are welcome - for a portrait, a good colour photo and the first name is needed, minimum size 50 x 70 cm, maximum size 90 x 120 cm.
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Other Paintings
Here you will see paintings of various techniques which do not match with the other categories. Also included are older paintings and the paintings of the two exhibitions in 1992. Like in the other categories, there are some intuitive paintings, which are dealing of what the painter has not been able to say with words. Many titles of paintings had been given later. Therefore the first exhibition had been titled "Instinctivly". Paintings older than 1973 survived an action of destruction which was done on the occasion of an attack of desperation and depression because of little artistic progress.
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