Rudolf Kosow Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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.
On 1stDibs, find a range of Rudolf Kosow’s paintings, drawings and more.
2010s Jugendstil Rudolf Kosow Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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2010s Realist Rudolf Kosow Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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2010s Jugendstil Rudolf Kosow Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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2010s Street Art Rudolf Kosow Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Mid-19th Century Academic Rudolf Kosow Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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1970s Realist Rudolf Kosow Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Rudolf Kosow Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Rudolf Kosow Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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1970s Realist Rudolf Kosow Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Early 2000s Pop Art Rudolf Kosow Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Early 2000s Outsider Art Rudolf Kosow Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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2010s Outsider Art Rudolf Kosow Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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2010s Outsider Art Rudolf Kosow Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Rudolf Kosow Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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20th Century Realist Rudolf Kosow Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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2010s Tonalist Rudolf Kosow Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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