Before I studied in Asia, Picasso and Gauguin had a great influence on my thinking. Later I admired the ideas and importance of Pollocks action painting. After 60 years of painting I believe I have found and created my own unique and personal style. I think art is about beauty and should not become entwined in politics and controversy. Empires have come and gone but beautiful things have survived most. To much of what passes for art these days is stuff that requires absolutely no skill, talent, taste or training and depends entirely on scandal, political statements and controversy.
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Walther v. Krenner is well known in the United States, Europe and the Orient for his unique style of ink paintings. These works display a remarkable range, varying between delicate grace and outright earthiness, reflecting his years of study of Zen and his disarming sense of reality.
Von Krenners successful works depend on his arduous discipline, careful observation of nature, strict control of the brush and his great sensitivity to living things. After many years of training, it has become possible for him to work swiftly, without accident or loss of detail, to achieve realistic effects which are most remarkable in their portrayal of the spirit of nature. A rhythmic vitality enlivens Von Krenners work which mirrors the spirit of the universe expressing the soul rather than the outward form. Calvin J. Goodman Art Critic and Consultant
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I very much admire your paintings. They set me off on another chain of thought about landscape and abstraction. As the Japanese read character into supposedly inanimate objects like rocks, so also many of your paintings evoke moods in me. Not identification with concrete vistas, like many scenery effects on pottery, they are abstract reckonings in colors and rhythms that evoke features of worlds of air and water in all their manifestations, mountains and declivities, trees and grasses.Blue mists, dark green foliage, stone blackened with the sheen of rain, snow in corners. The minds doors are set ajar in ways that are foreign to simple representation. Arthur ONeil, Australia collector

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