Reinhard Stammer became heavily addicted to drugs and as a consequence he was as an 18 year old sentenced to a year behind bars. When released he tried to find an outlet for his dissatisfaction with social conditions by joining the Communist League in West Germany. This also gave him a chance to develop his art, designing propaganda posters. Reinhard Stammer’s life was never straightforward. It’s probably what makes it possible for him to do profound paintings, he says.

At 33 he founded a publishing house called P.A.R.C.-Verlag. The focus of this company was to reproduce car race posters. He was the only one worldwide, who got the licenses of VW, Porsche, Audi and BMW to reproduce their old race posters. Those posters where distributed all over the world and in the factory museums too.

In 2006 he had to sell due to a very serious illness that almost killed him. All those experiences left him with a strong determination to live for his art, and he went into a creative frenzy. In the meantime he found a lot of answers that worked inside of him, since he was a child. First Buddhism and then the Advaita Philosphy, teached by Ramesh Balsekar in Mumbai, were some of the triggers of his current artwork.

The sale of his company made huge losses and he had to start new with 56. He went to Mallorca for two years. There he wanted to proceed with his artists career. One exhibition followed the other. Mr. Stammer did not take the academic or intellectual way. The paintings that were on display at the SPACE gallery in London were the results, as he himself puts it, of “having walked the rocky road of life”. There are also some worldwide exhibitions with some other famous painters from different countries. Since 2021, Reinhard Stammer lives and works in Sineu, Mallorca, Spain.