Neo Rauch.GALERIE FUR ZEITGENOSSISCHE KUNST On the heels of a slew of recent shows internationally, Neo Rauch Neo Rauch (born 18 April 1960, in Leipzig, East Germany) is a German artist whose monumental paintings owe a debt to Surrealists Giorgio de Chirico and René Magritte. With echoes of socialist realism, Rauch exhaustively mines the intersection of his personal history with the is suddenly making a name for himself in his native Germany. With a neo-Pop sensibility all his own, Rauch's paintings stage war stories and offer glimpses of country life, combining the romantic and the depressive de·pres·sive adj. 1. Tending to depress or lower. 2. Depressing; gloomy. 3. Of or relating to psychological depression. n. A person suffering from psychological depression. qualities of his past in the former GDR GDR See Global Depositary Receipt (GDR). . This traveling exhibition, curated by Galerie fur Zeitgenassische Kunst director Klaus Werner, brings together forty large works from various phases of the Leipzig artist's career, including an immense wall sculpture of metal and neon tubes depicting a fairy-tale creature with the face of a dog. Dec. 9, 2000--Feb. 11, 2001; Haus der Kunst The Haus der Kunst (literally House of Art) is an art museum in Munich, Germany. It is located at Prinzregentenstrasse 1 at the southern edge of the Englischer Garten, Munich's largest park. , Munich, spring 2001; Kunsthalle Zu rich, June 9-- Aug. 12, 2001. |
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