Germany - Figurative Paintings

Superbe original painting on canvas depicting a young ballerina performing a trick while onlookers contemplate perplexed to her prowess. keywords; americana, surrealism, ballerina, ...

Busy is a tridimensional original painting on paper on branches depicting tailor ladies working taking body measurements along a path in a dark night. keywords; vintage tailor ladi...

keywords; surrealism, portrait, oil painting, earth tones, figurative painting, strangeness, contemporary surrealistic, unsettling, contemporary figurative painting, dreams, symbolic...

"Small Bird Meditation Nr. 1 & 2" is a 2024 mixed media on canvas painting by German mid-career artist Dr. Michael Pröpper. This is a dyptichon (2 works together) 2 times 60 x 30 cm ...

Art Edition (No. 1–100), with the numbered and signed print The Caged Bird’s Song (Voyeur), 2024, by Chris Ofili. Art print, Giclée on 340gsm Hahnemühle Rag Metallic paper with deckl...

"Incident" by Rudolf Kosow is a visually stunning oil painting that masterfully utilizes surrealism and a subtle color palette to emphasize the unexpected juxtaposition of a giant pu...

Superbe original painting on canvas depicting an oversized fly as an enigma in a clear bue sky above a perplexed group of men. keywords; americana, surrealism, fly, vintage, oil painting, men figurative painting...

Rudolf Kosow’s Not So Bad is a haunting contemporary surrealistic oil painting that evokes the aesthetic and ethos of Americana, tinged with an unsettling air of mystery and nostalgi...

This stunning oil painting depicts a cowboy riding a vintage red wooden horse on wheels against a summer blue sky. keywords; painting on canvas, surrealist painting, americana, man,...

Circle of Ruisdael, Riders in a Landscape passing by a well

"Birdscpae I" is a new 2024 unique acrylic on canvas painting by German mid-career artist Michael Pröpper. It debicts an abstract expressionist contemporary landscape with birds in f...

"Water Lilies Meditation II" is a new 2024 unique acrylic on canvas painting by German mid-career artist Michael Pröpper. It debicts an water lilies on water in a blend of abstract a...

Whispers of Shadows captures a quiet and contemplative moment where the bare branches of a tree cast delicate shadows on the sunlit walls of an old building. Painted en plein air wit...

Body in the Field #, 2023 oil on canvas 15 3/4 H x 11 13/16 W in. 40 H x 30 W cm Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body through the prism of the fragm...

"Self Wearing Bag" is a striking oil painting that explores themes of identity, burden, and possession. The hyperrealistic rendering of a worn leather bag, gripped tightly by a parti...

Body in the Field #4, 2023 oil on canvas 15 3/4 H x 11 13/16 W in. 40 H x 30 W cm Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body through the prism of the frag...

Body in the Field #13, 2023 oil on canvas 15 3/4 H x 11 13/16 W in. 40 H x 30 W cm Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body through the prism of the fra...

The significant size difference plays with the perception of the viewer, perhaps confused, one asks oneself the question, if what is shown much larger, is also much more important .....

In "Investigation I", banal, everyday things meet in this painting to create an unusual, strange, absurd and ironical situation derived by the disproportional scale size of things. keywords; surrealism, animals, bat, oil painting, earth tones, figurative painting, strangeness, contemporary surrealistic, unsettling, contemporary figurative painting, dreams, symbolic composition, giant bat...

Trapped, imprisoned and guarded - are there reasons to do so? Maybe "She" is dangerous, or possibly quite harmless, she is dreaming and serene. keywords; surrealism, portrait, oil p...

A Very Long Evening, 2023 acrylic on canvas 82 43/64 H x 43 5/16 W inches 210 H x 110 W cm The painting by Alexandru Rădvan is about our moments of 'respiro' about the minutes/sec...

Body in the Field #5, 2023 oil on canvas 15 3/4 H x 11 13/16 W in. 40 H x 30 W cm Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body through the prism of the frag...

Hermits is a tridimensional original painting on paper on branches depicting a woman next to a giant butterfly along a path in a dark night. keywords; butterfly, woman, lingerie, americana...

This painting embodies the harmony between nature and the inner world of a person. The woman seems to dissolve into a swirl of soft shades of green, pink, and blue. Her pose radiates...

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"Elbe 17" is a 2020 unique oil on canvas painting by German mid-career artist Michael Pröpper. It debicts an early morning water landscape setting on t...

A surreal composition blending hyperrealism and vintage nostalgia, Banana presents an oversized, hyper-detailed banana floating in a muted blue sky. Below, a black-and-white, early 2...

One More is a tridimensional original painting on paper on branches depicting a golfer playing on a field on a sunny day. keywords; golfer, yellow shirt,...

**The actual color of this piece is a monochrome off-white and dark grey palette. Rudolf Kosow’s Instantly is a striking monochrome oil painting that blends contemporary surrealism w...

In "Fate challenge II“ a mountaineer is eagerly climbing a steep rock ledge because she has seen something from a distance that she could not explain and is planning to find out. Alt...

People with Small Crab, 2022 acrylic on canvas 170 H x 130 W cm 66 59/64 H x 51 3/16 W cm The painting by Alexandru Rădvan is about our moments of 'respiro' about the minutes/secon...

Hermann Schütte (1893 Osnabrück - 1973 Hamburg), White Mask on Violet Ground. Enameled copper plate on wooden base, 37 x 29.5 cm, monogrammed and dated "S[chütte] [19]62" in the lowe...

The significant size difference plays with the perception of the viewer, perhaps confused, one asks oneself the question, if what is shown much larger, is also much more important .....

A group of men come across something inexplicable, something that looks amazingly like a scoop of ice cream with a chocolate topping, in the middle of the forest and desperately try ...

Antique painting, 19th century, oil on canvas, Reading Researcher, Cleric. Signed lower right. Franz Mark. Dimensions without frame. Frame partially damaged.

Flemish Baroque painting. Romantic scene. Signed and dated. J. HOREMANS 1760. This 100% authentic painting captivates with its powerful colors. A real eye-catcher. Dimensions witho...

Sign is a unique oil on canvas painting by contemporary artist Emanuel Schulze, dimensions are 50 × 70 cm (19.7 × 27.6 in). The artwork is signed and comes with a certificate of aut...

Exterre is a unique oil on canvas painting by contemporary artist Emanuel Schulze, dimensions are 140 × 110 cm (55.1 × 43.3 in). The artwork is signed, sold unframed and comes with a...

Gustl Stark (1917 Mainz - 2009 ibid.), Small Nude, 1946. Oil on canvas, marouflaged, 54 x 25 cm (picture), 30 x 60 cm (frame), signed "Stark" top left, verso twice signed "Gustav Stark", inscribed by hand as "Small Nude" and dated by hand "1946". With label of the exhibition of the Bundeshaus Bonn from 1956. - Rubbed area in the lower third of the body, at the same level a retouch in the ochre background. I provisional frame. - Abstract Figurativity - About the artwork During the war, Gustl Stark suffered a particularly severe blow for an artist: he lost his right arm. Nevertheless, he continued to devote himself to art, and the painting, created in 1946, immediately after the end of the Nazi reign of terror, testifies to the dawn of a new era. At the same time, the work is a rare example of the artist's early figurative work, as Stark turned entirely to abstract painting as early as 1950. And even this painting is by no means purely figurative; rather, it already illustrates Stark's turn toward abstraction. We see a female nude, but one that remains faceless. This can be read symbolically and in relation to the immediate past epoch, which, in the face of horrors, silences and blinds - literally renders faceless. In this sense, the figure is positioned to 'look back'. But she does not look. While this meaning may resonate and make the painting an important work of the immediate postwar period, Gustl Stark is primarily concerned with something else here, namely art itself. The absence of the face leads to the body becoming something flat. Due to the de-individualization, we do not see a concrete person with his individual features, but a body surface. And indeed, the body is constructed through an extremely planar design. Even the contour lines that form the corporeality have a planar rather than a linear character, especially where they merge into shadow zones of almost the same color. And the surfaces themselves are not modeled. The incarnate parts do not show any plastic gradations; the corporeality is completely withdrawn into the plane, which is also true for the hair. In addition, there is no uniform background against which the figure could appear; rather, the area next to the hair is kept bluish, creating a succession of earth-toned colored areas, which again binds the figure to the surface. Last but not least, the flatness is also forced by the painting technique. Gustl Stark paints directly, a la prima, onto the coarse canvas, whereby the structure of the painting support remains visible in the picture, and in places - around the hair, for example - the canvas itself can be seen. This structural all-over lends the picture a certain flatness. Gustl Stark thus uses the very motif that stands for the corporeality of art par excellence - the female nude - to transform the spatiality of the traditional picture into a flatness characteristic of modern art. And yet, a strong impression of corporeality is created, without being produced by a painterly modeling of the body. The oscillation between flatness and corporeality creates the intense tension of this groundbreaking painting. In Gustl Stark's oeuvre, as a consequence of the abstraction we see here, the figurative is completely stripped away in a further step, which is also a loss when looking at this early key work. About the artist Gustl Stark was the son of a woodcarver and, after an apprenticeship as a decorative painter, attended the State School of Arts and Crafts in Mainz from 1936 to 1937. Although he was severely wounded in the war and lost his right arm, he studied at the Würzburg School of Painting and Drawing from 1943-1944 and then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg from 1944-1948. He won a state scholarship at the state art competition in Bad Ischl. Numerous study trips to Sylt, Paris, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Holland and Belgium followed. Gustl Stark worked in Mainz and was the first artist there to focus on abstract painting. His work quickly gained international recognition, including the Salon Réaliés Nouvelles in Paris. From 1963-1970 he taught at the State University Institute for Art and Work Education in Mainz and from 1970-1975 at the Johannes Gutenberg University. Gustl Stark became particularly famous for his color embossed prints, for which he invented his own technique. Gustl Stark received numerous awards for his work. He received the Art Prize for Painting of the City of Mainz in 1962, the State Prize of Rhineland-Palatinate in 1984, and the Gutenberg Bust of the City of Mainz in 1987. Selected Bibliography Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler des XX. Jahrhunderts, Vierter Band, Leipzig 1958, S. 344. Hans H...

Body in the Field 1, 2022 oil on canvas 55 1/8 H x 39 3/8 W in. 140 H x 100 W cm Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body through the prism of the fragm...

South, 2020-2022 acrylic on canvas 27 9/16 H x 27 9/16 W in. 70 H x 70 W cm The torrid sun, the infinite blue of the sea, the warmth of summer days, and ordinary people caught in mo...

Moscow. "On the red square". Kremlin, St. Basil's Cathedral. Russian art. Very good condition. Unframed. Solovykh Gennady Ivanovich (1932, Moscow). Member of the Union of Artists ...

Women & Water, 2022 acrylic on canvas 19 11/16 H x 19 11/16 W in. 50 H x 50 W cm The torrid sun, the infinite blue of the sea, the warmth of summer days, and ordinary people caught...

This restrained profile, rendered in subdued purples and dusty violets, evokes the stoic silence of the lone gunman archetype. With face partly turned away and hidden beneath a wide-...

Rudolf Kosow’s On Road is a hauntingly poetic exploration of light, transition, and the unknown. A solitary figure stands at the edge of a glowing precipice, his gaze lowered towards...

Mythological I (Faun), 2016 Acrylic marker on canvas sheet (signed and dated front left corner) 23 5/8 H x 17 3/4 W in. 60 H x 45 W cm (reproduced at page 23, in the catalogue 'Mythi...

"Zebras in Bright Color Light" is a new 2024 unique acrylic on canvas painting by German mid-career artist Michael Pröpper. It debicts walking zebras in layers of color. It has almo...

Small Christ 4, 2010 Acrylic on canvas (Signed on reverse) 7 9/10 H × 7 9/10 W in. 20 H × 20 W cm In the series of works "Small Christ", Alexandru Rădvan questions the human dimensi...

Small Christ 3, 2010 Acrylic on canvas (Signed on reverse) 7 9/10 H × 7 9/10 W in. 20 H × 20 W cm In the series of works "Small Christ", Alexandru Rădvan questions the human dimensi...

Banana, 2012 Acrylic on canvas (Signed on reverse) 41 3/10 H × 28 55/64 W in 105 H × 73.3 W cm The artwork "Banana" was part of the solo show “Epic”. This exhibition, as the artist ...

keywords; surrealism, humour, uncanny, yellow dress, little girl, car wreck, car incident, earth tones, oil painting, figurative painting, strangeness, conte...

Two Friends, 2013 Acrylic on canvas 108.66 H x 145.66 W in. 276 H x 370 W cm Painted in a vivid colorful gestural expressionist manner "Two Friends" by Alexandru Radvan refers to an...

"Abstract Nr. 5" is a new 2024 unique acrylic on canvas painting by German mid-career artist Michael Pröpper. It debicts square or rectangular layers painted in an abstract expressio...

Self-portrait at the Beginning of History, 2019 Acrylic on canvas 88 31/32 H x 34 29/64 in. 226 H x 87.5 W cm Rădvan's multifaceted self-portraits are also a reference to Narcissus...

Self-portrait at the Beginning of Time, 2019 Acrylic on canvas 88 31/32 H x 34 29/64 in. 226 H x 87.5 W cm Rădvan's multifaceted self-portraits are also a reference to Narcissus, a ...

Ulysses I, 2011 Acrylic on canvas (Signed on reverse) 7 9/10 H × 7 9/10 W in. 20 H × 20 W cm The artwork "Ulysses I" was part of the solo show “Epic”. This exhibition, as the artist...

Néa kinonikón sistima, 2005 Acrylic on canvas (Signed on reverse) 78 7/10 H × 78 7/10 W in 200 H × 200 W cm The painting "Néa kinonikón sistima" is part of a larger series of works ...

Candy Eyes issue #2, 2010 Oil on canvas (Signed front upper left corner) 13 4/5 H × 10 1/5 W in 35 H × 26 W cm Through his works, Mihai Florea equally satirizes, the one who produce...

Constantin.Fides, 2006 Acrylic on canvas (Signed on reverse) 66 9/10 H × 47 1/5 W in 170 H × 120 W cm "Constantin's Memoirs" project represents the questions posed by the artist Alexandru Rădvan regarding the personality of the great Emperor Constantine...

Sulphur, 2005 Acrylic on canvas (Signed) 39.37 H x 39.37 W in. 100 H × 100 W cm Signed The painting "Sulphur" is part of a larger series of works entitled " Minotaur" and inspired ...