Vente: 393 / Post War/Contemporary Art 09 juin 2012 à Munich Lot 274

 
Tilo Baumgärtel - Wagenburg


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Tilo Baumgärtel
Wagenburg, 2002.
Oil on canvas
Estimation:
€ 14,000 / $ 15,120
Résultat:
€ 17,500 / $ 18,900

( frais d'adjudication compris)
Wagenburg. 2002.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated on stretcher. 155 x 210,5 x 4 cm (61 x 82,8 x 1,5 in). [DB].

EXHIBITION: Tilo Baumgärtel. 13. Künstlerstipendium Willingshausen, Gerhardt-von-Reutern-Haus Willingshausen, 28 June - 21 July, 2002, p. 32 (with illu. in colors).
Tilo Baumgärtel. Hydroplan. Art prize of the Sachsen LB 2002, Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig, 1 December, 2002 - 9 February, 2003, p. 23.
Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig.

LITERATURE: Susanne Altmann, Farbe total, in: Kreuzer. Das Leipziger Stadtmagazin, Januar 2003, p. 38 (with illu. in colors).

Tilo Baumgärtel counts among the protagonists of contemporary figuration. Baumgärtel, who was born in Leipzig in 1972, at first completed an apprenticeship as a toolmaker and then enrolled at the ‘Leipziger Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst‘ (Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig) in 1994, where he studied until 1998. He completed his artistic education as master student of Arno Rink. The choice of study location, the training with the protagonists of the first and second generation of the "Leipzig School", such as Werner Tübke, Bernhard Heisig or Arno Rink, as well as the focus on figurative painting enabled Tilo Baumgärtel to become part of the "New Leipzig School", which is regarded an outstanding artistic phenomenon. In 2002 Tilo Baumgärtel and artists such as Christoph Ruckhäberle, Jörg Lozek or Matthias Weischer founded the gallery "LIGA" in Berlin,, which made important contributions to the rank of the "New Leipzig School" up until its closure in 2004 by offering artists a forum for presentation.

This large painting with the title "Wagenburg" (Corral) was made in 2002. Tilo Baumgärtel chose bright, almost psychedelic unnatural colors in order to show the observer a tree-lined clearing. Which looks like an idyllic campground at first sight, soon turns out a surreal scene, as the trailers parked between the trees have walls instead of wheels – it is impossible to leave this place. The only way out seems to be a dissolution of the material world, wafting away from reality, transcending, as it is hinted at in the background with the trailer composed of blue and green. In terms of coloring and composition, our painting is a remarkable example of Tilo Baumgärtels‘ deserted image works, in which standstill and other-worldliness belong to the dominant topics.

In 2002, the year Tilo Baumgärtel made "Wagenburg", was a very successful year for the young artist, as he was awarded the art prize of the Sachsen LB and had a corresponding solo show in the ‘Museum der bildenden Künste‘ in Leipzig. In the following works by Tilo Baumgärtel received an increasing international recognition and where shown in the Collection Essl in Klosterneuburg near Vienna (2006), in the SAFN in Reykjavik (2006) and in the Mücsarnok in Budapest (2008).




274
Tilo Baumgärtel
Wagenburg, 2002.
Oil on canvas
Estimation:
€ 14,000 / $ 15,120
Résultat:
€ 17,500 / $ 18,900

( frais d'adjudication compris)