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.
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
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
$2,384Sale 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
$747
H 21.26 in W 17.33 in D 1.38 in
Incredible Edible Flower Cake, Bright Still Life Food Art, Contemporary Pop Art
By Kerry Louise Bennett
Located in Deddington, GB
A joyful depiction of a towering celebration cake decorated in edible wild flowers. This painting has a great deal of texture, vibrancy and character. Kerry Louise Bennett, artist and painter, has original artworks available with Wychwood Art in our gallery and online. Working from her home studio in Sheffield, Kerry Louise Bennett (b.1972) makes colourful paintings loaded with texture and pattern. Her previous lives working in set design, upholstery and photography, and her passion for music and literature, all feed into the semi-abstract interior and still life compositions she paints. In one sense the objects painted and the relationships between them can be seen as arbitrary, necessary only to serve a sense of spatial orchestration, and the abstract sensibility of a process-led artist, however, an element of romance and storytelling always seems to emerge in her charming characterful paintings. Colour and composition, strong mark-making and the pure materiality of paint drive my creative practice, but of course everything I make reveals something of me - the introvert, the observer, the dreamer. I work over multiple layers before finding the story the painting wants to tell. In some ways I feel like the conductor of an unruly orchestra - there is a musicality to my work, and my visual vocabulary draws on the everyday to capture a kind of unconscious narrative that transforms chaos into calm, worry into joy, the mundane to the magical. Kerry says of herself: I am obsessed with colour first and foremost – it’s impact is so visceral, but mark making is also important – usually expressed through pattern and the shapes of things often scratched into the surface of the paint, with textures then built up over many layers. My visual vocabulary draws on the ordinary stuff of life - chairs, plants...
Canvas, Acrylic
$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
Versailles interiors. Acrylic on Canvas Painting
By Manuel Santelices
Located in Miami Beach, FL
A new series inspired by architecture, décor and stylish personalities of the world of interior design. The worlds of fashion, society and pop culture are captured in the illustrati...
Canvas, Acrylic
$2,650
H 27 in W 39 in D 1.75 in
Pink & Turquoise Blue Abstract Seascape Landscape Cloudscape, Oil on Canvas 2026
Located in Preston, GB
Pink & Turquoise Blue Abstract Seascape Landscape Cloudscape, Oil on Canvas 2026. An original by Contemporary British Artist, Sarah Victoria Scott Art measures 39 x 27 inches S...
Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
$3,496
H 25.4 in W 21.26 in D 0.79 in
Breakfast, Surrealist Acrylic on Canvas, Signed, 64.5x54 cm, Colorful
Located in Cotignac, FR
Surrealist contemporary tablescape, acrylic on canvas by Scottish artist Frank McLean Docherty R.S.W. Signed and dated bottom left. This piece is wonder...
Canvas, Acrylic
$3,008
H 29.53 in W 23.63 in
Julia Adams, Interior Splendour, Original Interior Painting, Contemporary Art
By Julia Adams
Located in Deddington, GB
Julia Adams Interior Splendour Original Interior Painting Mixed Media with Acrylic Inks on Canvas Canvas Size: H 75cm x W 60cm x D 3.5cm Sold framed (Please note that in situ images ...
Canvas, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic
San Miguel
By Catherine Koenig
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original realist egg tempera painting by American artist Catherine Koenig created during her travels to Mexico. This work will be featured in the gallery's upcoming exhibition "D...
Board, Egg Tempera
$12,500
H 36 in W 48 in
"The Weary Blues" Acrylic Painting of Interior w/Patrons and Music Colorful
By Dennis K. Smith
Located in Detroit, MI
"The Weary Blues" depicts the interior scene of a Blues bar late at night with a number of patrons socializing, drinking and listening to music. The scene is dramatically rendered in...
Canvas, Acrylic
$930
H 42 in W 6 in D 1.5 in
Bounce II - Perfect for entryway, narrow, colorful, tall, teal
By Michelle Thomas Artist
Located in Woodstock, GA
Stunning addition to shorter walls or small sections of wall on either side of a door opening! “Bounce II” is a vibrant, vertical abstract painting by contemporary artist Michelle T...
Canvas, Acrylic
$3,107Sale Price|20% Off
H 29.14 in W 40.95 in D 1.97 in
The Post Party Geometric Figurative Still Life Interior Painting Acrylic on Canv
By Héctor Francesch
Located in FISTERRA, ES
The Post Party by Héctor Francesch is an acrylic on canvas created in 2026. Measuring 104 x 77 cm, this geometric figurative still life painting transforms domestic objects into anth...
Canvas, Acrylic
$2,400
H 40 in W 30 in D 1.5 in
Table with Three Flowers, Contemporary Floral Acrylic Painting, 2026
By Jodi Ferrier
Located in Washington, DC
Medium - Acrylic on Canvas Year - 2026 Style - Contemporary Subject - Floral and Interior Still Life Dimensions - 40 H x 30 W x 1.5 D in Condition - New, Ready to Hang Table wi...
Acrylic, Paint, Charcoal, Oil Crayon, Wax Crayon, Cotton Canvas, Pencil,...
Blossom, Spring serie
By Olha Vlasova
Located in Zofingen, AG
You will receive this painting stretched, with painted edges and completely ready for hanging. Framing is not obligatory and depends only on your preference. The "Spring" series captures the sensations that permeate us during the most enchanting time of the year. It reveals the emergence of feelings, the pleasure of tenderness and the belief in the future. The color palette of the paintings resembles the blossoming of trees, combining pastel tones with vibrant, saturated accents. They seem effortlessly crafted, as if breathing in cool, fresh air. The series is executed in a decorative style, with each canvas incorporating elements that convey a sense of textile. These elements refer to traditional...
Canvas, Acrylic