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PETER ROBERT KEIL* (born 1942 in Zuellichau)
Bundle of 15 oil paintings
each oil/plate, about 117 x 66 cm
each signed Keil and dated between 74 and 75
including: bodysculpture, acrylic on plastic, 80 x 40 x 20 cm

ESTIMATE € 3000 - 6000
STARTING PRICE € 3000

Peter Robert Keil is a contemporary German painter and sculptor. He spent his early youth in West Berlin and was primarily concerned with expressionist artists such as Pablo Picasso. The painter Otto Nagel, who came from East Berlin, became his artistic mentor from around 1954. In 1956, Keil began training as an art locksmith and then attended the University of the Arts in Berlin. With the construction of the Berlin Wall, contact with Nagel broke off, and Keil increasingly moved abroad. While studying at the university, Keil came into contact with other artists of his generation, such as Georg Baselitz, Eugen Schönebeck, Markus Lüpertz and Joachim Schmettau. During his time on Mallorca he also met Joan Miró several times in his studio. In his early days, Keil orientated himself towards German Expressionism, addressing big city milieus and marginal figures in society. From the 1960s and his time in Paris, he developed a more spontaneous and dynamic style of painting, which he continued to develop during his London years and finally as part of the Berlin Neue Wilden in the early 1980s. Since then, the typical features of his painting style have been the use of intense, almost garish colors and the renunciation of realistic objectivity. The application of paint is quick and quick and occasionally impasto, and the motifs of his pictures are repeatedly alienated by graffiti elements. In terms of subject matter, Keil prefers human figures, portraits, urban scenes, landscapes and floral still lifes. From the early 1960s, Keil moved into studios in Paris, London, Berlin and the USA. Today he lives and works in Bavaria, Berlin and Los Angeles.

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