Peter Robert Keil (1942)
Peter Robert Keil
Peter Robert Keil is a German painter and sculptor.
In the beginnings of his artistic career, Peter Keil's style was influenced by German expressionism. However, his style changed visibly at the beginning of the 60s when he lived in Paris for a while and emerged in the city's nightlife. Keil increasingly parted with his realistic approach and developed a new, much more spontaneous and dynamic painting style. Since then, the use of intensive to lurid colours and the absence of realistic representation have become characteristic of his painting style. In his paintings, the colour is applied with quick brushstrokes and occasionally with impasto techniques and the images are additionally abstracted by the use of Graffiti elements. Keil prefers to paint human figures, portraits, big city scenes, landscapes and still life images of flowers. His emotional way of painting is mainly driven by a desire for freedom from social constraints and conventions. In the past 50 years, he has created numerous large- and small scale paintings in oil and mixed media on canvas but also some sculptures in wood and steel and a great number of majolicas.
| Date and place of birt: | 6 august 1942, Sulechów, Poland |
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| Nationality: | Germany, Poland |
| Period of activity: | XX, XXI century |
| Specialization: | Artist, Painter, Sculptor |
| Genre: | Cityscape, Figurative art, Flower still life, Landscape painting, Portrait, Still life |
| Art style: | Contemporary art |
