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Hartmut Neumann

HARTMUT NEUMANN

Overgrown and Disappeared Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art 13 April–23 June 2018 Düsseldorf
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In his most recent paintings, Hartmut Neumann asks the fundamental question about the ‘what if ...?’ and goes into a painterly answer search. What if ... for whatever reason, humanity suddenly disappears from the globe? Just because. What would the big cities and metropolises look like in 2110 and another hundred years later, in 2210?

It is a play of ideas, but it seems obvious that all the vegetation, with its trees, shrubs, plants, moss, flowers, fruit will flourish and recapture or at least overgrow all spaces. Neumann presents this ‘all-over’ in his great pictures of metropolises such as Beijing, Nairobi or Amsterdam in an overflowing abundance, with painstaking force and subtle details.

The series Overgrown and Disappeared Hartmut Neumann’s follows his diverse pictorial, graphic and photographic work. In it, the longtime Professor of Painting at the Braunschweig Academy of Fine Arts, unites his desire for staging, combination, re-invention and the discovered inventions. In this way, elements of the real, the unconscious, mythology and chance collide in his imagery and continue his almost inexhaustible repertoire of forms.

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Hartmut Neumann works’ construct a world of their own: they take the viewer into micro- and macrocosms, which initially seem untouched and harmonious, but on closer inspection reveal sinister abysses. In his pictorial language, elements of the real, the unconscious, mythology, and chance collide to create an unsettling symbiosis. With his bright colours but also dark backgrounds, Hartmut Neumann offers a glimpse into infinity.

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GROUP EXHIBITION Silence Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art 5 September–21 November 2026 Düsseldorf
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Founded in 1994 by Dr Ute Eggeling and Michael Beck—both from art history and gallery backgrounds—Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art is a leading international gallery. Based in Düsseldorf, it specialises in exhibiting art by European masters of the 19th and 20th centuries, embracing Impressionism, Expressionism, and post-War Modernism, as well as working to foster international contemporary art.

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Bilker Strasse 5 and Bilker Strasse 4–6
Düsseldorf
Germany
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Tuesday - Friday:
10am - 1pm; 2pm - 6pm
Saturday:
11am - 4pm

Closed: 20th December 2025 - 5th January 2026
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Düsseldorf Bilker Strasse 5 and Bilker Strasse 4–6
Beck Eggeling International Fine Art contemporary art gallery in Dusseldorf Germany
Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art
Bilker Strasse 5 and Bilker Strasse 4–6, Düsseldorf, Germany
+49 211 491 5890
http://www.beck-eggeling.de

Opening hours
Tuesday - Friday:
10am - 1pm; 2pm - 6pm
Saturday:
11am - 4pm

Closed: 20th December 2025 - 5th January 2026
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