Artists Painting - Hatje Cantz

ANSELM KIEFER

Born at the end of the war, Anselm Kiefer has been pursuing the goal of raising awareness since the 1970s, in an intensive examination of German history and an ambiguous treatment of taboo content.

TIM BURTON

He is considered the "master of the fantastic scary trip, the surreal screen spectacle". The films of the American director Tim Burton have cult status, but his visual work is still largely to be discovered.

SEAN SCULLY

Sean Scully is considered one of the most important painters of our time, who drove the discussion of abstract painting of the present like no other artist.

PAUL GAUGUIN

While Gauguin was unable to find his longed-for paradise in life, he succeeded in putting his ideal vision of an unspoiled world on canvas - with bright colors and elemental forms that revolutionized art.

AUGUST MACKE UND FRANZ MARC

August Macke and Franz Marc were connected by a close friendship, which is one of the special events of the art of the 20th century, not only in human, but also in artistic terms.

GUSTAVE COURBET

No other artist, especially in the prudish 19th century, dared such drastic realism and the associated breaking of taboos as Gustave Coubert. His most famous painting, L'Origine du monde, was for a long time the epitome of an art scandal.

ADRIAN GHENIE

Within just a few years, Adrian Ghenie has made it to the forefront of the international art world. His special interest is the gap between great, "objective" history and subjective memory. The paintings are of great tactile and material appeal: painting becomes visible as painting.

HILMA AF KLINT

Hilma af Klint's 2019 solo show is the most visited exhibition ever at the Guggenheim Museum in New York: it is the spectacular rediscovery of the pioneer of abstract painting.

IMRAN QURESHI

Imran Qureshi is considered one of the most important representatives of the art scene in Pakistan. He combines motifs and ornaments of the Mughal tradition with conceptual thinking and contemporary abstract painting.

ALEXANDER RODIN

Alexander Rodin's paintings demand patience and imagination from the viewer. He covers his large-scale oil paintings with countless hidden details that come together to form complex, disturbing stories with multiple levels of interpretation.

GORAN DJUROVIC

The mostly small-format paintings by Belgrade-born artist Goran Djurovic are often enigmatically ironically broken and whimsically pointed. With almost psychoanalytical persistence, they revolve around self-deception, social maladjustment, and character deformation.

HERBERT BRANDL

Herbert Brandl is considered an important innovator of painting. Every brushstroke is a gesture that makes the painting process itself the subject. Even when he creates what appears to be representational, he dissolves the familiar world into clouds and splashes of color.

GUSTAV KLIMT

In the field of tension between decadence and avant-garde, Gustav Klimt held up a transfiguring mirror to society and at the same time, as a member of the Secession, championed the breakthrough of modernism.

GERHARD RICHTER

Gerhard Richter is one of the most influential artists of our time. His fascinating oeuvre oscillates between chance and calculation and is characterized by a unique originality and quality in which abstraction and figuration merge.

DAVID LYNCH

David Lynch is the cult director of bizarre, often disturbing films. But the ingenious filmmaker has another passion besides cinema, which he says has "influenced him more than cinema" - art.

KARIN KNEFFEL

The suggestive pull emanating from Karin Kneffel's hyper-realistic mode of representation is followed by an unmistakable call to distrust the character of the image. It is the extreme details, the meticulous attention to detail, that reveal Kneffel's conceptuality at second glance.

ANTON HENNING

Anton Henning moves away from common art trends and expectations. In his subversive march through art history, he repeatedly combines an abstract, ornamental formal language with figurative motifs, places avantgarde and design, trash and salon art in a dialectical relationship.

PHILIP TAAFFE

The New York-based painter Philip Taaffe makes use of various ethnic motifs. His postmodern access to already existing forms, however, is only the external approach to a decorative ornamentation. His works are a critical-reflexive examination of abstraction.