Fides Becker developed and pursued her picturesque strategies in the illusionistic pictorial space. Her practice explores intimate worlds through objects and materials we associate with the private sphere in everyday life. Sofas, beds, curtains, mirrors and sheets are reconstituted in her paintings as fragments, details or dissolving surfaces that engage with the ambiguities between presence and absence, past and present and personal and collective images. Fides Becker studied at the Städelschule in Frankfurt a.M., at the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten in Rotterdam and the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. Her works can be found in numerous national and international collections, such as the National Collection of Rhineland-Palatinate, the Art Collection of the German Bank or the Stichting Beeldende Art Amsterdam. Fides Becker lives in Frankfurt and Berlin. She develops and pursues her painterly strategies in the large-format illusionistic picture space with a subversive play of light and color. In her pure painting on canvas, she reflects everyday objects, places or rooms from other epochs with a mysterious patina, which are culturally connected in our society. She inhales them with emotions and lends these dead objects an independent life. In this way, they receive something essential, and at the same time, morbid ambivalence, which makes the penetration of space and time experience in our present-day reality. Thus, Fides Becker inspired the old Jewish cemetery at the Börneplatz in Frankfurt and the Jewish cemetery in Berlin Weißensee, where the eternal peace of the dead can not be disturbed and nature protects itself over the graves, to their large format golem landscapes. The figure of the Jewish legend spreads in Central Europe. While the variants of the Berlin Spiegelsaal in Clara’s Ballhaus or the Loge evoke glamor and glory of former times, it moves with the almost romantic midnight blue Rhineland-Palatinate dacha under trees and the two leather canapés in the Contre Jour of an English gentility club in private spheres. Certainly, man plays a central role with his feelings in the oeuvre of Fides Becker. Even though, in her recent works, she is more concerned with the recording of human traces, following her studio scholarship at the Cité International des Arts Paris, that decisive transformation in her artistic work from 2010 to today has been accomplished: for she turned from the collage technique and pure painting, and since then renounced the human figure entirely in her pictures. Nevertheless, she is still concerned with human sensations such as longing, desire, fear, but also lust and passion, which she wants to make sensual in her pictures. In doing so, she does not pursue any new themes, but she is seeking a new approach to her well-known motifs - the beds, landscapes and interiors.
$14,228
Robe 2
By Fides Becker
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Robe 2' 2005, Acrylic and Egg Tempura on Canvas and Cotton Canvas, 210 x 160 cm The leading theme of the artist’s interventions is the staging of temporality, transience, and chang...
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic, Egg Tempera
$4,268Sale Price|20% Off
Kleiderbügel
By Fides Becker
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Kleiderbügel' by Fides Becker Acrylic and Eggtempera on Canvas, 65 x 55 cm The leading theme of the artist’s interventions is the staging of temporality, transience, and change. Fides Becker (* 1962) developed and pursued her picturesque strategies in the illusionistic pictorial space. Her practice explores intimate worlds through objects and materials we associate with the private sphere in everyday life. Sofas, beds, curtains, mirrors, and sheets are reconstituted in her paintings as fragments, details or dissolving surfaces that engage with the ambiguities between presence and absence, past and present, and personal and collective images. Fides Becker (*1962 in Worms) studied at the Städel School in Frankfurt a.M., at the Academie van Beeldende Kunsten in Rotterdam, and at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. Her works can be found in numerous national and international collections, such as the National Collection of Rhineland-Palatinate, the Art Collection of the German Bank...
Canvas, Acrylic, Egg Tempera
Tischgruppe
By Fides Becker
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Tischgruppe' by Fides Becker Acrylic and Egg Tempura on Canvas 50 x 65 cm, 2010 The leading theme of the artist’s interventions is the staging of temporality, transience, and cha...
Canvas, Acrylic, Egg Tempera
Tapetenzunge
By Fides Becker
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Tapetenzunge’ by Fides Becker Acrylic and Eggtempera on Canvas, 115 x 85 cm, 2017 Fides Becker The leading theme of the artist’s interventions is the staging of temporality, trans...
Canvas, Acrylic, Egg Tempera
Schlüsselloch
By Fides Becker
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Schlüsselloch' by Fides Becker Acrylic and Eggtempera on Canvas, 33 x 54 cm, 2017 The leading theme of the artist’s interventions is the staging of temporality, transience, and change. Fides Becker (* 1962) developed and pursued her picturesque strategies in the illusionistic pictorial space. Her practice explores intimate worlds through objects and materials we associate with the private sphere in everyday life. Sofas, beds, curtains, mirrors, and sheets are reconstituted in her paintings as fragments, details or dissolving surfaces that engage with the ambiguities between presence and absence, past and present, and personal and collective images. Fides Becker (*1962 in Worms) studied at the Städel School in Frankfurt a.M., at the Academie van Beeldende Kunsten in Rotterdam, and at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. Her works can be found in numerous national and international collections, such as the National Collection of Rhineland-Palatinate, the Art Collection of the German Bank...
Canvas, Acrylic, Egg Tempera
$14,821
Robe 7
By Fides Becker
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Robe 7' by Fides Becker Acrylic and Egg Tempura on Canvas and Deco Fabric, 184 x 159 cm, 2005 Fides Becker The leading theme of the artist’s interventions is the staging of temp...
Canvas, Acrylic, Egg Tempera
Teppiche - Abstract, Contemporary, Painting, Woman, 21st Century,
By Fides Becker
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
‘Teppiche' Acrylic and Eggtempera on Canvas, 115 x 85 cm, 2016 Fides Becker The leading theme of the artist’s interventions is the staging of temporality, transience, and change. ...
Canvas, Acrylic, Egg Tempera
$11,264
Robe 4
By Fides Becker
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Robe 4' by Fides Becker Acrylic and Egg Tempura on Canvas and Deco Fabric 160 x 140 cm, 2005 The leading theme of the artist’s interventions is the staging of temporality, transi...
Canvas, Acrylic, Egg Tempera
Schwanken
By Fides Becker
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Schwanken' by Fides Becker Acrylic and Egg Tempura on Cotton Canvas 95 x 70 cm -2009 Fides Becker The leading theme of the artist’s interventions is the staging of temporality, t...
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic, Egg Tempera
$2,466Sale Price|20% Off
Stuckrosette
By Fides Becker
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stuckrosette, 2010, Acrylic and Egg Tempura on Canvas and Deco Fabric, 40x35 cm, 2.600 € INSTANTDREAMS Gallery presents Fides Becker The leading theme of the artist’s interventio...
Canvas, Acrylic, Egg Tempera
$450,000
H 28 in W 24 in
Mural Study for "History of Water" American Scene Modernism Social Realism WPA
By Thomas Hart Benton
Located in New York, NY
Mural Study for "History of Water" American Scene Modernism Social Realism WPA Thomas Hart Benton (American, 1889-1975) "Water Story" (Study for The History of Water) Tempera and o...
Oil, Egg Tempera, Board
$2,960
H 39.38 in W 31.5 in D 0.71 in
To Leave or Stay: Contemporary Figurative Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Nataliya Bagatskaya
Located in Zofingen, AG
This sophisticated contemporary figurative painting examines the psychological atmosphere of civilian life during the war in Ukraine through a carefully orchestrated symbolic interio...
Lacquer, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
$2,960
H 41.34 in W 31.5 in D 0.71 in
Too Late to Scare Me Painting, Acrylic on Canvas, Signed, 105x80 cm
By Nataliya Bagatskaya
Located in Zofingen, AG
The most compelling works of contemporary art do not simply depict events—they reveal shifts in human consciousness. Too Late to Scare Me belongs to this tradition, transforming an i...
Lacquer, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
Semi-nude
By Nataliya Bagatskaya
Located in Zofingen, AG
Periodically I create nude paintings, but a half-naked body is more interesting). The artwork is done in mixed media. Dutch acrylic paints Amsterdam and It...
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
$3,200Sale Price|20% Off
H 8 in W 11 in D 1.5 in
Touch of Green, surrealist egg tempera on panel still life painting
By Douglas Safranek
Located in New York, NY
Douglas Safranek's Touch of Green calls back to 17th century trompe l'oeil Dutch still lifes. Filled with humor and complexity, Safranek's rather constrained and controlled stroke of...
Egg Tempera, Board
The Eclectic
By Nataliya Bagatskaya
Located in Zofingen, AG
This is my personal vision of life, which could be the life that everyone has the right to, the life that Russian aggression deprived me of... This is my virtual life, because real l...
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
Street Look
By Nataliya Bagatskaya
Located in Zofingen, AG
Vivienne Westwood introduced Street look style into fashion. She and her husband liked to walk around London flea markets, they got inspiration there... I love this style. The artwo...
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
$1,500
H 9.45 in W 7.09 in D 1.19 in
Blue Flower in Tower, Ink, egg tempera and gold leaf, illustrated architectural
By Konstantinos Papamichalopoulos
Located in Dallas, TX
"Blue Flower in Tower" is an enchanting creation by Konstantinos Papamichalopoulos, of an illustrated, dancing blue flower growing out of an architectural structure. The background i...
Gold Leaf
$3,200
H 6 in W 6 in
"Little Iris Icon" (2022) By Fred Wessel, Egg Tempera on Gold Leaf Painting
By Fred Wessel
Located in Denver, CO
Fred Wessel's "White Orchid" is a stunning egg tempera painting on gold leaf. Created in 2023, this piece features a blooming branch of white orchids, resting over a deep red backgro...
Gold Leaf
$2,015
H 33.47 in W 25.6 in D 0.71 in
"Red Scarf Painting", Contemporary Figurative Art, Signed
By Nataliya Bagatskaya
Located in Zofingen, AG
Elegant, poised, and psychologically magnetic, this painting offers a contemporary interpretation of the seated portrait within a subtly surreal landscape. The female figure, dressed...
Lacquer, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
8:48 PM
By Marius Messinese
Located in La Baule-Escoublac, FR
In his very Californian settings, Marius Messinese creates an environment that is both synthetic and realistic, halfway between seduction and intrigue. At the crossroads of different...
Canvas, Acrylic
$652
H 7.88 in W 7.88 in D 0.79 in
Waiting Room 1 - Contemporary Expressive Symbolic Black-White and Brown Painting
By Joanna Mrozowska
Located in Hallein, AT
Joanna Mrozowska Born in 1976 in Warsaw. Studied in the Department of Painting in the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw; she graduated with a Master’s degree in painting, with the cycle...
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic