Modern and Contemporary art — A1180: Art after ’45
Stefan Müller is a German abstraction artist who works in Germany.
The process of this artist's work is interesting: sometimes Müller bleaches or paints canvases with batik methods or wipes the floor of the studio with them, so that not only the obligatory traces of paint, but also ashes, dust, dirt, beer and other liquids get on the paintings.
Christian Brandl is a German artist who lives and works in Leipzig.
He studied painting at the Leipzig Academy of Fine Arts.
Brandl's static paintings are reminiscent of 1950s psychological thrillers or even cartoons. They depict people without emotion, often in situations that are difficult to explain, the events on the canvases and the subjects are difficult to recognize.
Marc Lüders is a German artist who works in a combination of photography and painting. Photographs serve as a background for the oil paint, the artist himself calls his works "Photocarts". Lüders uses his photographs of cityscapes, wasteland or abandoned places as backgrounds, depicting figures or objects that contrast sharply with their surroundings.
Stephan Balkenhol is a German artist known for his sculptures capturing the human form. Based in France and Germany, he specializes in wood sculptures, reliefs, drawings, and graphic techniques like lithography, woodcuts, and stencils. His distinct style features roughly carved and vibrantly painted wooden sculptures, often depicting people, animals, and architecture.
Balkenhol's subjects lack emotions, often gazing into emptiness, resulting in a distant and enigmatic aura. Wood is his primary medium, with softer woods allowing precise facial details while maintaining imperfections like chips, knots, and tool marks. The artist adds paint as a finishing touch, accentuating anatomy and vitality. The textured surfaces beneath the paint layer amplify the sense of life in Balkenhol's works.
Shonah Trescott is an Australian-born landscape artist who lives and works in New York and Berlin. She is widely known for her paintings that focus on the relationship between people and nature. Shauna Trescott explores the essence of nature, love, fear, and myth, invoking various fields including scientific data, field studies, her personal imagination, and memories.
Jan Dörre is a German painter known for his still lifes in the modern vanitas style.
He studied painting at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig, lives and works in Leipzig.
Jan Dörre paints still lifes, which are directly associated with the paintings of the old masters of the 17th century. The artist in his works repeats in different variations the familiar set of motifs found in baroque still lifes of vanitas: bread, cutlery, fruit, insects, birds, snakes, lizards, books, letters, skull, etc. But next to them in a modern setting he places objects of our time, for example, pills and empty packages from them. All this together conveys the general idea of the genre: a reminder of the transience of life, the futility of pleasure and the inevitability of death.
Cornelia Schleime is a German painter, performer, filmmaker and author. She studied painting and graphic arts at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts before becoming a member of the underground art scene. She was awarded the Hannah Höch Lifetime Achievement Award from the State of Berlin in 2016.
Schleime's painting style is inspired by artists that were a strong influence in her classical studies such as Bacon and Balthus, Monet, Rembrandt, and Van Gogh.
Schleime has focused since the 1990s on figures and large-format portraits. Sources of inspiration are glossy magazines, reproductions of all kinds, but also personal photographs or snapshots found at flea markets. Through the intuitive act of drawing or painting, she turns those she depicts into something creative of her own, projecting them in new roles, symbolically emphasising the poses encountered or highlighting aspects with a touch of fantasy and irony.
