Picture "Still Life" (around 1980) (Unique piece)
Picture "Still Life" (around 1980) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | monogrammed | mixed media on handmade paper | framed | size 81 x 108 cm
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Picture "Still Life" (around 1980) (Unique piece)
Markus Lüpertz proves that still lifes are still extremely contemporary as a motif. During his long career, he devoted himself repeatedly to this pictorial theme.
With his work from 1980, Lüpertz opened up a new approach to this traditional subject in terms of the way it is depicted, as well as the technique used. The basis of his mixed technique was a woodcut on handmade paper, which he then worked on with gouache, watercolour and coloured chalk. With the skull and the candle as symbols of transience, he chose classic still-life subjects.
However, Lüpertz created his own individual interpretation with the expressive painting style typical of the artist and through the greatly altered proportions of the pictorial objects.
Gouache, watercolour and coloured chalk over woodcut on handmade paper, around 1980. Monogrammed. Motif size/sheet size 60 x 88 cm. Size in frame 81 x 108 cm as shown.
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About Markus Lüpertz
Markus Lüpertz, born in 1941 in Reichenberg in Bohemia, has earned international recognition for his art. His extensive oeuvre alternates between representational and abstract phases.
In the 60s and 70s, he created his “dithyrambic” works, whose stylistic characteristics are primarily pathos, theatricality and classicizing components. In the 80s in particular, Lüpertz paraphrased works by the classicist Nicolas Poussin. Another new phase in his work can be identified in the 1990s. The Bible and legends now become a theme not only in paintings but also in sculpture. Here he deals with elementary human emotions such as loneliness or failure.
Markus Lüpertz claims his place in the world with a few words: “there is no remedy against me i am like the rain i make the flowers bloom, the earth breathe, the world in you bearable. Rejoice, for I am afraid beware of my paintings hang them up turn them face to the wall but I beg you, let me live.”
After studying art in Krefeld and Düsseldorf from 1956-61, he moved to Berlin. With his figurative painting, he is counted among the “Junge Wilde”, who replaced the abstract informal in the 1960s. His motifs are often reduced to individual objects, which he stages monumentally.
Markus Lüpertz taught at the State Academy of Art in Düsseldorf. As its rector, he succeeded Joseph Beuys from 1988 to 2009.
The artist now lives and works in Berlin, Düsseldorf and Karlsruhe. His works can be found in many leading collections and museums of modern art around the world. Markus Lüpertz's works are sought-after and generally sell out quickly. They have excellent prospects for dynamic growth in value.
In spring 2015, the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris organized an extensive retrospective of Lüpertz's work, which reinforced the artist's international relevance.
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A one-of-a-kind or unique piece is a work of art personally created by the artist. It exists only once due to the type of production (oil painting, watercolour, drawing, lost-wax sculpture etc.).
In addition to the classic unique pieces, there are also the so-called "serial unique pieces". They present a series of works with the same colour, motif and technique, manually prepared by the same artist. The serial unique pieces are rooted in "serial art", a genre of modern art that aims to create an aesthetic effect through series, repetitions, and variations of the same objects or themes or a system of constant and variable elements or principles.
The historical starting point is considered to be Claude Monet's "Les Meules" (1890/1891), where, for the first time, a series was created that went beyond a mere group of works. The other artists, who addressed to the serial art, include Claude Monet, Piet Mondrian and above all Gerhard Richter.