Beschreibung
Original lithograph by Richard Brintzenhofe. 8/8 edition, signed and inscribed by the artist. 59 x 42 cm, in very good condition, slightly stained at the bottom. Richard Brintzenhofe Born in1950, died in 1994 The American painter Richard Brintzenhofe, who died prematurely of AIDS, can be seen in the context of New Image Painting, American neo-expressive art, which since the late 1970s has been used as a counterpoint to the reduced formal language of Minimal and Concept Art, which is sometimes understood as too intellectual figurative, expressive sign language preferred. These sensual and emotionally charged forms of expression in drawing, watercolor and painting favor a subjective, free figuration. At the same time, one finds, in the spirit of current postmodernism, a citation behavior and symbolic coding, in which earlier epochs are taken up in painting and processed further. Brintzenhofe's paintings and drawings are to be viewed in this zeitgeist. Little can be found about his work at the reception. He's sort of an outsider. His quantitatively modest work partly results from lengthy painting processes. Each tableau is a concentrate of a specific creative phase. Since 1980, the American, who feels drawn to the European tradition in painting, has been copying selected paintings in European museums with grease pencils - from Giotto to Morandi or contemporaries like Morley - in his small-format sketchpad. In this way he trains his own vision and explores the perception and compositions of exemplary painterly geniuses by drawing. Based on his experiences he develops his own work. In his early pictures, which were initially sparse and then increasingly gallant and opulent, one finds not only a subtle turning to the painterly means in the reproduction of the figurative environment, but also an appropriation of reality, which starts from personal areas of experience and takes place in the natural simultaneity of space and time processes. Starting from different perspectives, a spatial experience with human and object-like presence can be experienced, which manifests itself in the picture in a virtuoso manner, apparently at different times: The whole and its parts in space and time thus form the leitmotif of Brintzenhofe's artistic intentions. Ultimately, it is the processes of perception that interest the American with his panoramas: Little information can be found about Brintzenhofe's work. In Switzerland, the painter, who lived temporarily in Zurich from 1975 and from 1980 to 1986, presented his unmistakable, large-format oil paintings and subtle watercolors in 1982 in the Toni Gerber Gallery in Bern and in the Konrad Fischer Gallery in Zurich, two years later in the Kunstmuseum Winterthur (next to further gallery presentations in Switzerland and Germany) and 1989, 1990 and 1993 in the Galerie Renée Ziegler in Zurich. In 1988 Brintzenhofe designed the art collection Ragusa Art. Other relationship structures can be found in the Swiss and American homosexual scenes. An oeuvre catalog of Brintzenhofe's drawings based on paintings from 1981-1994 will be published posthumously in Switzerland by Andreas Züst and a film by Rolf Wäber that will provide insights into the stages of the artist's work. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 23385
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