Picture "Still Life" (around 1990) (Unique piece)
Picture "Still Life" (around 1990) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | monogrammed | oil on canvas | framed | size 49 x 64 cm
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Picture "Still Life" (around 1990) (Unique piece)
Since Markus Lüpertz created his first paintings around 1960, his style and artistic signature have continuously changed. The present work "Still Life", created around 1990, would have been unthinkable just five years earlier, as the artist was still experimenting with a complete detachment from the object at that time. However, a break then occurred - marking the beginning of a new phase in his work.
Much like Pablo Picasso or Francis Bacon, Lüpertz also studied the art of the French Baroque painter Nicolas Poussin, drawing his very own lessons from Poussin's work with the meaningful and coherent rhythmisation of the painting ground.
This influence can be seen very impressively in this "Still Life": While the subject is almost ordinary, the individual pictorial objects are cleverly arranged in a circular composition, guiding the viewer's gaze and imbuing the simple subject with an exciting rhythm.
Oil on canvas, around 1990, monogrammed. Size in frame 49 x 64 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.
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.