Philipp Humm

11/06/2026

02/06/2026

The Faustian bargain is no longer just a myth. It is our current reality.
I am relaunching The Last Faust. Not because the work has changed, but because the world has.
In a moment where AI is reshaping culture, work, and human identity, this cinematic adaptation of Goethe’s allegory feels more urgent than ever. Faust himself finds redemption. Society may not.

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10/12/2025

My three works, two oils and a watercolor titled “NYC”, revisit the classic theme of the n**e woman before the mirror, now set in an urban landscape.

Inspired by Helmut Newton’s Bergström over Paris, often compared to Velázquez’s Rokeby Venus, these pieces explore the interplay between gaze and reflection.

Here, beyond awareness and voyeurism, the woman’s glance meets her own image in a moment of self-reflection.
This threshold, where seeing and perceiving meet, echoes the ideas explored in my series The Space Between, a suspended zone where identity, presence, and vision intersect.

11/03/2025

Boat ride

Diverging paths in a relationship.

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08/03/2025

The business woman

Vaguely inspired by Helmut Newton’s photograph, and appropriating Icons from the 60th Italian cinema, this painting blends adulation and success.

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1960s

06/03/2025

The tear

Vaguely inspired by the love-cartoons from the 50th, and appropriating Icons from the 60th Italian cinema, this painting boils down the emotions of a couple in a tear.

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03/03/2025

The Magnate

Vaguely inspired by Helmut Newton’s photography and drawing from icons of 1960s French and Italian cinema, this painting offers a glimpse into the life of a magnate and his objects of status—does he own them, or do they own him?

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