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.
$14,296
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
$14,891
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
$11,317
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
$2,620
H 15.36 in W 10.63 in D 0.99 in
Virgin of Kataphyge and St. John, after a Byzantine Bulgarian Icon 14th Century
Located in Segovia, ES
The Virgin of Kataphyge with Saint John the Evangelist, after a Bulgarian Byzantine icon of the 14th Century. Egg tempera and gold leaf on gesso and wood. Author: Oliver Samsinger...
Gold Leaf
$2,744Sale Price|20% Off
H 16.54 in W 13.39 in D 0.79 in
Icon of Our Lady of Jerusalem with oklad by Oliver Samsinger
Located in Segovia, ES
Icon of Our Lady of Jerusalem. Egg tempera on gesso and over a wooden board. Dimensions in centimeters: 42 x 34 x 2 cm / In inches: 16.54 x 13-39 x 0-79 " Author: Oliver Samsinger...
Brass
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...
Acrylic, Cotton Canvas
$550
H 20.87 in W 20.08 in D 0.4 in
Goodbye Mixed Media Oil Painting on Canvas, Abstract Figurative Art
Located in Bogotá, Bogotá
Mixed media oil painting on canvas depicting a human figure intertwined with animal forms. The composition combines vibrant colors, abstract shapes, and figurative elements to explor...
Cotton Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
$2,620
H 51.19 in W 51.19 in D 0.79 in
On My Mother's Lap - Contemporary Figurative Modern Painting
By Kasia Mazur
Located in Hallein, AT
This painting is part of the artist's award-winning diploma thesis. Artist Statement: I paint imagined memories shaped by contradiction. In my practice, tenderness meets fear, humou...
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
$2,025
H 14.57 in W 12.21 in D 0.99 in
Panagia Paramythia Byzantine Style Icon, Egg Tempera on Wood, 24K Gold Leaf
By Oliver Samsinger
Located in Segovia, ES
Panagia Paramythia (Mother of Consolation) Artist: Oliver Samsinger. Technique: Egg tempera on gesso and wood, with 24‑karat gold leaf. Dimensions: 37 × 31 × 2.5 cm. Description of...
Gold Leaf
$1,239Sale Price|33% Off
H 11.82 in W 10.04 in D 0.79 in
Saint Nicolas in the style of Russian icons of the 18th century. With Oklad
Located in Segovia, ES
Icono of Saint Nicolas in the style of Russian icons of the 18th century. Egg tempera and gesso on wood, covered by a metal oklad made by the artist himself. The oklad, in principle, were made to cover damaged parts of highly revered ancient icons...
Gesso, Wood, Egg Tempera
$2,125
H 27.75 in W 39.75 in D 1.75 in
'Two Profiles' by Erekle Chinchilakashvili; 27.75" x 39.75" Framed; Tempera, Oil
By Erekle Chinchilakashvili
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 19.7" x 27.6" framed tempera, acrylic, and oil pastel work on paper by Tbilisi, Georgia-based multidisciplinary artist Erekle Chinchilakashvili depicts two distinct profiles of ...
Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Tempera
$2,144
H 25.2 in W 11.42 in D 1.78 in
The archangel Saint Michael, after an icon of the 14th century
Located in Segovia, ES
Archangel Saint Michael after an icon from Constantinople of the 14th Century. Artist: Oliver Samsinger Technique: Egg tempera on gesso and wood, with application of gold leaf Dimens...
Gold Leaf
$3,145Sale Price|20% Off
H 21.26 in W 15.36 in D 0.79 in
Christ, the Great High Priest. Greek-Italian style Icon with silver oklad
Located in Segovia, ES
Christ, the Great High Priest. Greek-Italian style Icon with silver filigreed oklad. Egg tempera, over gesso on wood with a silver cover, "oklad", with pol...
Silver
$774
H 10.44 in W 9.26 in D 1.19 in
Icon of The Holy Virgin of Tenderness (Korsunskaya).
Located in Segovia, ES
Icon of THE KORSUN VIRGIN (KORSUNSKAYA), egg tempera, and gold leave on gesso, over a piece of wood. Dimensions: (H) 26.5 x (W) 23.5 x (D) 3 cm. Also called The Holy Virgin of Tenderness, represents the Mother of God and infant Christ in a tender cheek-to-cheek embrace. The Virgin's hands tenderly surround the head and hands of the Child Jesus while he takes the cloak of the Mother of God with his left hand and plays with the fingers of his right hand, between his mother's neck and his own. Two very old icons, from the 12th and 13th Centuries, painted on the same theme, are respectively in the Uspenskii Cathedral in Moscow and in the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. This is how the artist sums up the technique used by him to create the icon: “The aim of these steps is to create a durable painting. The icon is eternal. The first step is to choose a support, traditionally made of wood, from the center of the trunk to avoid warping it. For this purpose, two hardwood bolts were often used on the back to give the picture panel additional stability. Often a frame is milled out. Then the image carrier is sanded smooth and now 12 or 14 thin layers of gesso are applied and sanded smooth as well. Then the preliminary drawing is applied and the drawing board is prepared with a special preparation called bolus. This bolus can be polished to a high gloss. Afterward, the gold leaf is "shot" with special brushes. It dries up within a few hours and can now be polished with agate. Gold leaf is real 24-carat gold. Now, the actual process of painting begins. Egg tempera is made fresh from egg yolk, water and a little vinegar. This is used to prepare the color pigments. Tempera painting is done in numerous layers from dark to light. When the icon is finished, it is left to dry for a few months and varnished with a special varnish called Olifa made from boiled linseed oil and other ingredients”. ABOUT THE ARTIST Oliver Samsinger...
Gold Leaf
$10,126
H 7.49 in W 6.3 in D 0.79 in
Scandinavian Family Portrait, Artist 18th Century, Scandinavian School
Located in Knokke, BE
Scandinavian Family Portrait Artist 18th century 18th Century Scandinavian School Signature: Not signed Medium: Miniature Dimensions: Image size ...
Egg Tempera