Ralf Altrieth (1966) - Still hungry

'Still hungry', 2026

Acrylic on canvas, mixed media technique combining press impressions (decalcomanie) and textures obtained by stamping

60 × 60 cm
Mounted on a solid wood stretcher frame (pine), beautiful patina. Thickness: 2.5 cm

Signed, dated and titled on the back by the artist

The edges are painted white, allowing immediate hanging without a frame, for a contemporary presentation.

Sold by Recodier Art, France
Certificate of authenticity signed by the artist

DESCRIPTION:

The museum director and art historian Dr. Friedhelm Häring describes the pictorial universe of Ralf Altrieth as follows:

"There is a great deal of poetry in this painting, as in all of the artist’s works. They are populated with narrative codes and fantastic tales. In this sense, Ralf Altrieth’s pictorial poems are a pure childish chant... Yet the most astonishing aspect that manifests itself in these canvases is a communicative tenderness for the states of mind of human beings."

In his paintings, Ralf Altrieth lets the forms arise and transform with the gesture, in a free and spontaneous movement. The figures often appear fleetingly, as if hesitating between being and disappearing.

The image forms through superpositions; the elements seem to float, respond to one another, interlace, creating a living and open visual space.

The title is usually added afterward. It is meant to suggest a lead, a narrative, poetic, or sometimes simply humorous dimension, never binding the image to a single interpretation.

An expressive work that immediately captures the eye and gradually reveals all its richness.

BIOGRAPHY:

Ralf Altrieth (Heilbronn, 1966) is a German-born painter and musician. Trained in his teens with painter Georg Schaible and then at the Nürtingen Academy of Fine Arts in the late 1980s, he has exhibited in France and Germany, notably at Galerie Hartmut Beck (Erlangen), at MAC Paris and at Galerie Théo de Seine (Paris). He currently lives and works in the south of France.

SHIPPING:

Tracked shipping with signature required. The work will be packaged with the utmost care in a rigid, tailor-made packaging by the artist (protective board, bubble wrap, cardboard reinforcements, etc.) to ensure safe transport.