Alfred Schopenhauer keeps cropping up here. My picture of him and Hegel even ended up in a Dutch University textbook, however, here I have painted him with one of his pet Poodles.
Acrylic on canvas, 508mm x 406mm
Schopenhauer had a difficult relationship with other people, and in his latter 27 years of his life, preferred the company of his pet poodle, Atman. Or to be more precise, a series of poodles, all called Atman.
In what I like to think of as a piece of German philosophical humour, Atman is the Sanskrit word for the ‘true self’, something that he searched for, through his writings, for his entire life.
I love these paintings. You capture his expression perfectly.