Neo Rauch is a German artist whose vivid, dramatic works reflect conventions of surrealist abstraction yet at the same time demonstrate concerns for the narrative in painting. In much of his paintings, Rauch juxtaposes human figures engaged in physical labor with industrial environments, sparse landscapes or simple architectural forms. His scale is often non-perspectival which contributes to an otherworldly, dream-like atmosphere operating in the imaginative realm.
Read MoreRauch was born in 1960 in Leipzig, where he continues to live and work. Rauch studied from 1981 to 1986 at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig and was a Master Student from 1986 to 1990.
He held his first solo exhibition in 1989 at the Galerie am Thomaskirchhof and has since had solo exhibitions most notably at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, David Zwirner in New York, and Galerie Eligen + Art, among others.
Rauch's work is held in the museum collections of Gemeentemuseum, The Hague; Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
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