One of Weiler’s greatest talents was his capacity for development well into old age. His art is closely linked to one of the major events of modernism: abstraction. With its help, he gained distance from the conventional perception of reality; it provided him with the syntax of his artistic language. However, he distanced himself from an abstract painting that withdraws from all meaning and worships exclusive self-reference. Instead, Weiler established an analogy to nature in his landscapes. His works represents “the spirit”: “The crucial question for human beings is: Are you connected to the infinite or not? That is the criterion of life… When one feels and understands that one is already connected to the boundless in this life, desires and attitudes change,” the artist stated.

Weiler’s work appeals to the imagination and the viewer’s capacity for projection. While landscape serves as the benchmark for his painting, its content is not. Rather, the artist leads us into a dimension that must be felt and discovered beyond appearances. His works, therefore, offer not representation, but rather a shaping, distillation, and transformation of sensory perception. For Weiler, every painting is “a poem that has form.” The artist experiences spirit not as opposed to nature, but as its soul and as a “realm of dreaming being.”

“Weiler spiritualizes our aging world and rejuvenates it. In doing so, he strengthens our own life forces and helps us to renew ourselves.” Konrad Oberhuber