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Fritz BaumgartnerDie Benno Kirche - Benno Church2001
2001
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The painter was born in Austrian, but grew up in Munich and died in 2006 at the age of 77. He was an outstanding personality, atypical in the German art landscape. He started on the path of Expressionism (among his teachers was Oskar Kokoschka) with visions of a life of catastrophes.
In his later years he developed a distinctive style, which he maintained except for a few minor changes. The figures are delimited by a sweeping line, their colouring is of the utmost purity, but they have not a decorative function but a symbolic one. Male and female figures fill the space, the archaic mask-like faces with enigmatic hollow eyes, like loopholes. Baumgartner now looks for inspiration in ancient Greece of the Dionysian festivals and the Elysian mysteries and, in contrast, in classical tragedy. His art, exercised in the modern intensity of acrylics, now remains mythical, an exemplary expression of the human experience.
Text from: Lorenzo Mondo, At 77.
Baumgartner, Austrian,
a painter of myths, died, in: La Stampa 10.10.2006
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- Creation Year:2001
- Dimensions:Height: 11.82 in (30 cm)Width: 15.75 in (40 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Wien, AT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1782210482262
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