Neo Rauch artist biography | original signed artworks & limited edition prints for sale

Neo Rauch is a painter whose work has chronicled the popular culture of the East Germany which no longer exists. His contemporaries, the highly regarded Germans Martin Kippenberger, Gerhard Richter, Anselm Kiefer, Sigmar Polke and others left East Germany to establish new lives in the Western world. But Rauch remained in Leipzig and painted images of the common things there. He worked during a difficult time for artists, as artwork was required to be officially sanctioned. Many of his paintings include propaganda posters, consumer products, heroic monuments and village scenes. For some, his work as expressing communism and Social Realism. In many ways, Rauch’s work includes themes of oppression suffered under communism and the ways that ideologies can be destructive. Neo Rauch is regarded as a neo surrealist whose art gathers viewers into landscapes with uncertain meanings. If his oil on canvas works are representative of anything specific; it is not known. He is considered by many critics as the culmination of surrealism. What makes him unique is his mastery of traditional techniques and that his works are much more advanced in terms of representational ability than other painters of his generation. In many of his paintings, the color palette echoes the subdued colors of communist East Germany, though his puzzling dreamscapes could be from any time or place. His work combines the skill of the masters of classical painting, depicting historical scenes within surrealistic style. Two paintings of note would be Tal, 1999, oil on canvas, depicting two battling male figures and Marina, 2014, oil on canvas. Less

Neo Rauch is a painter whose work has chronicled the popular culture of the East Germany which no longer exists. His contemporaries, the highly regarded Germans Martin Kippenberger, Gerhard Richter, Anselm Kiefer, Sigmar Polke and others left East Germany to establish new lives in the Western world. But Rauch remained in Leipzig and painted images of the common things there. He worked during a difficult time for artists, as artwork was required to be officially sanctioned. Many of his paintings More

Germany, 1960 | male artist | Figurative art | Surrealism | New Figuration | Contemporary Art | Share on Facebook and Twitter