In the course of the years the artist refined his favourite technique: pastel mostly enriched with coloured pencils. Karl focuses mainly on landscapes and surreal topics, but he is also interested in such diverse subjects as cartoons. His sculptures bear a close resemblance to the dynamic lines in his drawings, they seem to be reduced to the symbolical substance of the original idea. At the same time Karl also paints in oil and water colour. As he likes to harness his pc for his vectorized pictures, he does not always colour his drawings. He puts to use photos and digital techniques to create objects like bottles,shoes and dummies. This especially applies to “bottlemania”, a subject that has held the artist in its grip ever since. Wolfgang Karl even drafts logos and cover art for cd’s. He painted the stage set for Mozart’s “Magic Flute” at the “Musikhochschule” in Freiburg in 1992.

Wolfgang Karl began his career in art parallel to an academic training. He intensively studied various art techniques in the early 70s,taking lessons at the art school ‘Paris’ and receiving additional training by his friend the renowned Danish portrait painter Adam Gabriel. Since that time he has taken part in individual and group exhibitions at home and abroad.