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Christoph Schrein

German, b. 1980
"I’m interested in exploring boundaries of painting and reducing the medium to its essentials. - Color, Light and Form. Trying to give observers a place where they can lose themselves and where subjective experience and perception completes the painting. It is always more a question than an answer.“ - Ch. Schrein Christoph Schrein is a German painter born in 1980 who lives and works in Leipzig, Germany. He explores the sublime in painting. In his paintings he creates a contemplative space that sucks the observer in an optical maelstrom. From influences of Minimal Art, New British Sculpture and also current trends in Generative Art, Christoph Schrein has developed an own imagery, which positions itself in contemporary abstract painting. The artwork seem like an abstract landscapes, a physical non-space that forms, due to the undulating colour streams and fluent movements a complex composition and three dimensional illusion. Over the years he was experimenting with a lot of new substrates for the painting like alu dibond or glass. The characteristics of glass for example– transparency and a plane surface – allows and also require the need to develop new techniques and designs. Applying colour on both sides of the glass leads to a perceptive challenge. Due to the spatial separation of both sides, light is refracted, so that the three-dimensional effect expands. Depending on the incidence angle of the light source and the observer’s position, the spatial and colour perception varies. Thus the image turns into a light object. It seems to shine from its inside out, as if it starts to breathe. These works come into being from a reflexive-dialectical working process that consists in compressing colour, shape and spatial structures. One layer after another artistic gestures are superimposing themselves to get closer to the final image. However, the focus is not on the expressive process, but on the artificial image space, which speaks for itself and withholds the artist’s former intervention. The artwork seems to have been developing by itself which also is its source of supply. Schreins paintings ask for a dialogue without giving any answers, they question the inner being of painting and create a space for subjective experience.
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German Contemporary Art by Christoph Schrein - Untitled 2024
German Contemporary Art by Christoph Schrein - Untitled 2024

German Contemporary Art by Christoph Schrein - Untitled 2024

By Christoph Schrein

Located in Paris, IDF

Oil on aluminium dibond "I’m interested in exploring boundaries of painting and reducing the medium to its essentials. - Color, Light and Form. Trying to give observers a place whe...

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2010s Contemporary Christoph Schrein

Materials

Oil

German Contemporary Art by Christoph Schrein -  Arsis II
German Contemporary Art by Christoph Schrein -  Arsis II

German Contemporary Art by Christoph Schrein - Arsis II

By Christoph Schrein

Located in Paris, IDF

Oil on aluminium dibond "I’m interested in exploring boundaries of painting and reducing the medium to its essentials. - Color, Light and Form. Trying to give observers a place whe...

Category

2010s Contemporary Christoph Schrein

Materials

Oil

German Contemporary Art by Christoph Schrein - Miriad
German Contemporary Art by Christoph Schrein - Miriad

German Contemporary Art by Christoph Schrein - Miriad

By Christoph Schrein

Located in Paris, IDF

Oil & acrylic on glass Framed "I’m interested in exploring boundaries of painting and reducing the medium to its essentials. - Color, Light and Form. Trying to give observers a plac...

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2010s Contemporary Christoph Schrein

Materials

Oil, Acrylic

German Contemporary Art by Christoph Schrein - Pegasus
German Contemporary Art by Christoph Schrein - Pegasus

German Contemporary Art by Christoph Schrein - Pegasus

By Christoph Schrein

Located in Paris, IDF

Ink on paper "I’m interested in exploring boundaries of painting and reducing the medium to its essentials. - Color, Light and Form. Trying to give observers a place where they can ...

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2010s Contemporary Christoph Schrein

Materials

Paper, Ink

German Contemporary Art by Christoph Schrein - Titan
German Contemporary Art by Christoph Schrein - Titan

German Contemporary Art by Christoph Schrein - Titan

By Christoph Schrein

Located in Paris, IDF

Ink on paper "I’m interested in exploring boundaries of painting and reducing the medium to its essentials. - Color, Light and Form. Trying to give observers a place where they can ...

Category

2010s Contemporary Christoph Schrein

Materials

Paper, Ink

German Contemporary Art by Christoph Schrein - Tenebris
German Contemporary Art by Christoph Schrein - Tenebris

German Contemporary Art by Christoph Schrein - Tenebris

By Christoph Schrein

Located in Paris, IDF

Oil & acrylic on glass Framed "I’m interested in exploring boundaries of painting and reducing the medium to its essentials. - Color, Light and Form. Trying to give observers a plac...

Category

2010s Contemporary Christoph Schrein

Materials

Oil, Glass

German Contemporary Art by Christoph Schrein - Untitled 2020
German Contemporary Art by Christoph Schrein - Untitled 2020

German Contemporary Art by Christoph Schrein - Untitled 2020

By Christoph Schrein

Located in Paris, IDF

Oil & acrylic on glass "I’m interested in exploring boundaries of painting and reducing the medium to its essentials. - Color, Light and Form. Trying to give observers a place where...

Category

2010s Contemporary Christoph Schrein

Materials

Oil, Glass, Acrylic

German Contemporary Art by Christoph Schrein - Iris II
German Contemporary Art by Christoph Schrein - Iris II

German Contemporary Art by Christoph Schrein - Iris II

By Christoph Schrein

Located in Paris, IDF

Oil on aluminium dibond "I’m interested in exploring boundaries of painting and reducing the medium to its essentials. - Color, Light and Form. Trying to give observers a place whe...

Category

2010s Contemporary Christoph Schrein

Materials

Oil

German Contemporary Art by Christoph Schrein - Iris
German Contemporary Art by Christoph Schrein - Iris

German Contemporary Art by Christoph Schrein - Iris

By Christoph Schrein

Located in Paris, IDF

Oil on aluminium dibond "I’m interested in exploring boundaries of painting and reducing the medium to its essentials. - Color, Light and Form. Trying to give observers a place whe...

Category

2010s Contemporary Christoph Schrein

Materials

Oil

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Find a wide variety of authentic Christoph Schrein art available for sale on 1stDibs. You can also browse by medium to find art by Christoph Schrein in oil paint, paint, acrylic paint and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 21st century and contemporary and is mostly associated with the contemporary style. Not every interior allows for large Christoph Schrein art, so small editions measuring 20 inches across are available. Christoph Schrein art prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $1,600 and tops out at $6,000, while the average work can sell for $4,200.