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Rudolf KosowGuardian (taurus bull oil painting clouds surrealist lady in pink robe animal)2025
2025
$9,300
£7,141.51
€8,192.43
CA$13,067.59
A$14,634.88
CHF 7,636.24
MX$178,758.74
NOK 97,155.19
SEK 91,580.41
DKK 61,139.12
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In Guardian, Rudolf Kosow creates a poignant and dreamlike vision of protection, strength, and vulnerability. A colossal bull dominates the canvas, rendered with majestic precision, its imposing form grounded on an ambiguous white plane. Draped across its back in a limp, childlike pose is a small girl in a flowing pink dress, her face turned inward toward the animal’s thick neck in a gesture that suggests exhaustion, surrender, or profound trust.
The bull, calm and forward-facing, exudes stoic grace—its muscular body and curved horns evoking archetypes of power and guardianship. The contrast between the beast’s might and the girl's fragility heightens the symbolic charge of the work, suggesting a deep, almost sacred bond between human and animal.
Set against a swirling, chiaroscuro sky of mauve and stormy cloud formations, Guardian feels suspended in a mythic atmosphere, at once timeless and theatrical. The cloudy heavens evoke classical painting while the strange surreal pairing adds a layer of psychological intensity.
Kosow’s technical mastery in oil conjures lifelike textures in both hide and cloth, and the composition’s stark contrasts—light/dark, small/large, soft/hard—underscore the dualities at play: innocence and ferocity, surrender and protection, dream and danger.
This striking work expands on Kosow’s interest in the uncanny, the allegorical, and the surreal. Guardian is a contemporary masterpiece that merges fantasy with emotional realism in a way that feels both vintage and visionary.
- Creator:Rudolf Kosow (1972, German, Kazakhstani)
- Creation Year:2025
- Dimensions:Height: 53.15 in (135 cm)Width: 59.06 in (150 cm)Depth: 0.79 in (2 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Quebec, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU907116725652
Rudolf Kosow
Like images from a dream, Rudolf Kosow’s Surrealist figurative and still-life paintings and drawings conjure into reality otherworldly and absurdist scenes.
Kosow was born in 1972 in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. From 1994 to 2000, he studied painting at the city’s State Academy of Fine Arts.
Now based in Germany, he divides his time between Stuttgart and the town of Laichingen. He creates oil paintings based on three subjects: humans, animals and landscapes. He invites the viewer to interpret each work’s enigmatic message. For instance, in Contact, an astronaut is seemingly unaware of a colossal cat’s peering eye. In Missing Pieces, Kosow depicts a couple considering the whereabouts of slices taken from a giant Black Forest cake.
Kosow also explores the nature of human relationships in his portraits, such as Couple and Discord. Capture features a large-scale image of a sleeping girl juxtaposed with a miniature soldier standing guard.
“I try to paint things as realistically and as close as possible to enhance the real impression,” Kosow says in his artist’s statement. Although the imagery in his paintings and figurative drawings can be strange and somewhat unsettling, Kosow’s unique interplay of light and shadow creates a sense of “calm, harmony and peace.”
Kosow has exhibited across Germany and France. His works are sought by collectors of 21st-century Surrealist art.
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