In the autumn of 1998 Fritz Jakobsson will exhibit his studies and portrait sketches of both Finnish and international persons. This exhibition will display how the portrait grows from a sketch into the ready painting. We will see the influence of a moment, experience the pain of searching, and the joy of finding. According to Fritz, the sketch, at its best, includes everything through a variety of interpretations.

Another aspect of Jakobsson's art is also shown at the exhibition, and that is his "inner landscapes" with all the detailed studies. In a surrealistic manner he wants to touch the innermost aspects of man, to make us feel: "I have been there, I want to go there", or "I remember".

In 1997 Fritz Jakobsson celebrated his 30th anniversary as an artist. He has acquired an extensive international reputation through more than a hundred separate exhibitions.

The philosophy of Fritz Jakobsson

Of the human body, the face is by far the richest and most expressive symbol. The endless amount of nuances and expressions of the face appeal to our own experiences and states of feeling. We recognise ourselves mostly through this symbol in visual arts. Maybe that is why some of the worlds most famous artworks are portraits.

There is nothing else we need as much as another human being, because it is only through fellow beings that we perceive ourselves.

In the search of ourselves we communicate with others. Then we are totally dependent on art, that which symbolises the thought, the idea; and on the fulfilled piece of art, which are the words, the pictures, the text. Without art, all communication would be impossible, and we would be demanded to loneliness and destruction.