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Markus LüpertzLandschaftMixed media on canvas. 162 x 162 cm. Framed. Monogrammed 'Ml'.

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Markus LüpertzLandschaftMixed media on canvas. 162 x 162 cm. Framed. Monogrammed 'Ml'.
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Köln
Markus Lüpertz
Landschaft

Mixed media on canvas. 162 x 162 cm. Framed. Monogrammed 'Ml'.

Provenance
Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne (labels verso); private collection, Rhineland

Exhibitions
Bonn 2009/2010 (Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland), Markus Lüpertz, Hauptwege und Nebenwege, Eine Retrospektive, Bilder und Skulpturen von 1963 bis 2009, exhib.cat.no.113, p.152 with colour. illus.
Jena 2001 (Galerie im Stadtmuseum), Markus Lüpertz, Malerei, Zeichnungen und Skulpturen, exhib.cat.no.I/26, p.47 with colour illus.
Cologne 1998 (Galerie Michael Werner), Markus Lüpertz, Neue Bilder, exhib.cat., n. pag. with colour illus.

''Lüpertz' landscapes are visual expeditions. Sailing on the 'see' of painting, he steers a risky course between the physical world and its picture. Added to this he must also 'break' from life. Relinquished to the port of complacency, he weighs anchor and travels the navigable water of melancholy struggle. […] When reviewing Lüpertz' paintings of the years 1993-97, one notices the shift in the handling of motifs that surrounds and underlies these landscapes. The motif world of men without women, Parsifal dissolves into semi-abstract global forms; the parodic vanitas motifs (farcical skulls, ravens, fish) which followed in 1996, transformed into the wintry twilight landscapes of 1997. This motivic metamorphosis mixes the mindset of the plaintively-creative reverie (men without women, Parsifal) with ridicule about the finitenss of life (vanitas motifs), and in an unsentimental break with this world, leads to an aesthetic tendancy to the sylvan solitude. In his more recent forest pictures Lüpertz paints the way to the threshold of an unknown place. If this distant goal had a name, then it could be the grail, an alias for paradise, as one of these new pictures is also called.
It is not surprising that these works, as all of Lüpertz 'exteriors', are paradoxical. Even their central motif of the tree (an essentially German emblem) is 'different'. These trees have nothing in common with the green, rustling, lofty forests of German Romanticism. They also differ from the idyllic, albeit sparse trees often found in Expressionism, as well as from the eerie and desecrated woods of apocalyptic landscapes. One can call these forests German only insofar as they, like northern Gothic art, are neither narrative nor descriptive. Their theme is the deep individuality of their originator. In this sense, Lüpertz landscapes could be called the stage setting of the ego.'' (Pamela Kort, Eine Welt Abseits, Ein Exkurs, in: Markus Lüpertz, Neue Bilder, exhib.cat. Galerie Michael Werner Köln, Köln 1997, p. 5)

Markus Lüpertz
Landschaft

Mischtechnik auf Leinwand. 162 x 162 cm. Gerahmt. Monogrammiert 'Ml'.

Provenienz
Galerie Michael Werner, Köln (mit rückseitigen Aufklebern); Privatsammlung, Rheinland

Ausstellungen
Bonn 2009/2010 (Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland), Markus Lüpertz, Hauptwege und Nebenwege, Eine Retrospektive, Bilder und Skulpturen von 1963 bis 2009, Ausst.Kat.Nr.113, S.152 mit Farbabb.
Jena 2001 (Galerie im Stadtmuseum), Markus Lüpertz, Malerei, Zeichnungen und Skulpturen, Ausst.Kat.Nr.I/26, S.47 mit Farbabb.
Köln 1998 (Galerie Michael Werner), Markus Lüpertz, Neue Bilder, Ausst.Kat., o.S. mit Farbabb.

"Lüpertz' Landschaften sind visuelle Expeditionen. Auf dem »Seh« des Malens segelnd, steuert er einen riskanten Kurs zwischen der physischen Welt und ihrem Bild. Dazu muß er mit dem Leben »brechen«. Den Hafen der Selbstzufriedenheit preisgebend, lichtet er den Anker und bereist Fahrwasser des melancholischen Ringens. […] Läßt man Lüpertz' Gemälde der Jahre 1993 - 97 Revue passieren, bemerkt man Verschiebungen in der Motivik, die diese Landschaften umgibt und ihnen unterliegt. Die Motivwelt der Männer ohne Frauen, Parsifal löst sich in
Markus Lüpertz
Landschaft

Mixed media on canvas. 162 x 162 cm. Framed. Monogrammed 'Ml'.

Provenance
Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne (labels verso); private collection, Rhineland

Exhibitions
Bonn 2009/2010 (Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland), Markus Lüpertz, Hauptwege und Nebenwege, Eine Retrospektive, Bilder und Skulpturen von 1963 bis 2009, exhib.cat.no.113, p.152 with colour. illus.
Jena 2001 (Galerie im Stadtmuseum), Markus Lüpertz, Malerei, Zeichnungen und Skulpturen, exhib.cat.no.I/26, p.47 with colour illus.
Cologne 1998 (Galerie Michael Werner), Markus Lüpertz, Neue Bilder, exhib.cat., n. pag. with colour illus.

''Lüpertz' landscapes are visual expeditions. Sailing on the 'see' of painting, he steers a risky course between the physical world and its picture. Added to this he must also 'break' from life. Relinquished to the port of complacency, he weighs anchor and travels the navigable water of melancholy struggle. […] When reviewing Lüpertz' paintings of the years 1993-97, one notices the shift in the handling of motifs that surrounds and underlies these landscapes. The motif world of men without women, Parsifal dissolves into semi-abstract global forms; the parodic vanitas motifs (farcical skulls, ravens, fish) which followed in 1996, transformed into the wintry twilight landscapes of 1997. This motivic metamorphosis mixes the mindset of the plaintively-creative reverie (men without women, Parsifal) with ridicule about the finitenss of life (vanitas motifs), and in an unsentimental break with this world, leads to an aesthetic tendancy to the sylvan solitude. In his more recent forest pictures Lüpertz paints the way to the threshold of an unknown place. If this distant goal had a name, then it could be the grail, an alias for paradise, as one of these new pictures is also called.
It is not surprising that these works, as all of Lüpertz 'exteriors', are paradoxical. Even their central motif of the tree (an essentially German emblem) is 'different'. These trees have nothing in common with the green, rustling, lofty forests of German Romanticism. They also differ from the idyllic, albeit sparse trees often found in Expressionism, as well as from the eerie and desecrated woods of apocalyptic landscapes. One can call these forests German only insofar as they, like northern Gothic art, are neither narrative nor descriptive. Their theme is the deep individuality of their originator. In this sense, Lüpertz landscapes could be called the stage setting of the ego.'' (Pamela Kort, Eine Welt Abseits, Ein Exkurs, in: Markus Lüpertz, Neue Bilder, exhib.cat. Galerie Michael Werner Köln, Köln 1997, p. 5)

Markus Lüpertz
Landschaft

Mischtechnik auf Leinwand. 162 x 162 cm. Gerahmt. Monogrammiert 'Ml'.

Provenienz
Galerie Michael Werner, Köln (mit rückseitigen Aufklebern); Privatsammlung, Rheinland

Ausstellungen
Bonn 2009/2010 (Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland), Markus Lüpertz, Hauptwege und Nebenwege, Eine Retrospektive, Bilder und Skulpturen von 1963 bis 2009, Ausst.Kat.Nr.113, S.152 mit Farbabb.
Jena 2001 (Galerie im Stadtmuseum), Markus Lüpertz, Malerei, Zeichnungen und Skulpturen, Ausst.Kat.Nr.I/26, S.47 mit Farbabb.
Köln 1998 (Galerie Michael Werner), Markus Lüpertz, Neue Bilder, Ausst.Kat., o.S. mit Farbabb.

"Lüpertz' Landschaften sind visuelle Expeditionen. Auf dem »Seh« des Malens segelnd, steuert er einen riskanten Kurs zwischen der physischen Welt und ihrem Bild. Dazu muß er mit dem Leben »brechen«. Den Hafen der Selbstzufriedenheit preisgebend, lichtet er den Anker und bereist Fahrwasser des melancholischen Ringens. […] Läßt man Lüpertz' Gemälde der Jahre 1993 - 97 Revue passieren, bemerkt man Verschiebungen in der Motivik, die diese Landschaften umgibt und ihnen unterliegt. Die Motivwelt der Männer ohne Frauen, Parsifal löst sich in

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