Neo Rauch

Neo Rauch ( born April 18, 1960 in Leipzig ) is a German painter who is internationally recognized as a significant artist of his generation and as a pioneer of the "New Leipzig School ".

Life

Rauch's parents died four weeks after his birth in a train accident on 15 May 1960. He grew up with his grandparents in Aschersleben and put on the Advanced High School " Thomas -Müntzer " (now high school Stephaneum ) the Abitur. At the Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts smoke studied painting: first (1981-1986) with Professor Arno Rink, from 1986 to 1990, he completed a master student studying with Professor Bernhard Heisig. From 1993 to 1998 he worked as an assistant to Arno Rink at the Leipzig Academy. From August 2005 to February 2009 he was ( in succession by Arno Rink ) professor at the Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts.

Neo Rauch is married to the painter Rosa Loy. The two have an adult son and live in Markham south of Leipzig. The Leipzig space for smoke not only home, but artistic medium: " It is the place of concentration and inspiration. I grow here the best ideas to. "

The group exhibition "Young Artists in the district of Leipzig " in the Lindenau - Museum in Altenburg in 1986 marked the beginning of his public perception. His pictures from the 80 years he can not, however, apply. 1997 smoke was associated with an individual exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts Art Prize of the Leipzig People's Daily. The first major solo exhibition ( " fringes " ) directed in 2000, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Leipzig. 2006 dedicated the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg a retrospective to him. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2007 was followed by the small exhibition " para".

Work

Rauch's imagery is characterized by a bright opaque color and shows pieces in overlapping areas and times. The style permeates the socialist realism, but is also influenced by pop art and comic. Conceptually the work is close to surrealism and must be regarded as magical realism. Not infrequently dreamed smoke his subjects. The images are " peculiarity, suggestiveness and timelessness " rumored. In the magazine " Texte zur Kunst " (issue 55 ), he was portrayed as a representative of the German neo-conservatism '.

One of its main discoverers, Roberta Smith ( journalist for the New York Times), solved by an article on the " painter who came from the cold " a great enthusiasm for Neo Rauch in the U.S.. Rauch's paintings hang in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig and in solo exhibitions, such as the Albertina (2004/2005), was presented.

In 2006 he published five calendar stories by Botho Strauss eight lithographs under the title "The Mediator " in a limited and signed edition.

In 2007, Rauch designed free templates for three windows with motifs from the life of St. Elizabeth of Hungary for the Elizabeth Chapel in Naumburg Cathedral.

Smoke works in the former cotton mill Leipzig. His commitment to his students at the university went far beyond the activities as a teacher, he curated in 2007 with Timm Rautert an exhibition with the title "You have to hurry if you still want to see something ... " on Good Selikum in Neuss. Its value on the art market is high; were paid up to 1.5 million U.S. dollars. Smoke is represented by Gerd Harry Lybkes Galerie EIGEN ART, based in Leipzig and Berlin and David Zwirner, New York.

Prices, honors and fellowships

Exhibitions

  • 2000: outskirts. Gallery for Contemporary Art, Leipzig, Germany
  • 2004: Neo Rauch - Works on Paper 2003-2004. Albertina (Vienna), Austria
  • 2006: Neo Rauch - New Roles. Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
  • 2006: The period. Galerie Eigen Art, Leipzig, Germany
  • 2007: para. Max Ernst Museum Brühl, Germany and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
  • 2010: Neo Rauch - companion. Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig and the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
  • 2011: Neo Rauch. Museum Frieder Burda, Baden -Baden, Germany
  • 2011: Rosa Loy and Neo Rauch. Behind the Gardens. Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg / Vienna, Austria
  • 2012: Tired Heroes: Ferdinand Hodler - Aleksandr Dejneka - Neo Rauch. Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
  • 2012/13: Neo Rauch. Consideration. Parallel to the exhibition Rosa Loy. Gravitation. Art Collections Chemnitz, Germany
  • 2012/13: Neo Rauch. The Graphic Work - Part One. Graphic Neo Rauch Foundation Aschersleben, Germany
  • 2013: Neo Rauch. The Obsession of the Demiurge. Selected Works 1993-2012, at the Palais des Beaux- Arts ( BOZAR ), Brussels, Belgium (curated by Harald Kunde )
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