Ralf Altrieth - Tout ou rien - XXL
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Ralf Altrieth, Tout ou rien - XXL, mixed media on canvas (oil, acrylic and pastel), 160 × 185 cm, 2022, original edition, signed by the artist, in excellent condition, France.
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There are works that we look at. And others in which we step in.
This painting by Ralf Altrieth belongs to the second category.
The gaze circulates without ever really settling. Forms appear, transform, disappear — silhouettes, fragments, barely named presences. Nothing is imposed, everything is built in relation to the viewer.
“What is directly visible matters to me less than what can happen when looking. This is how I bring my paintings to life, from the very first stroke.” — Ralf Altrieth
Here, painting does not tell a story: it puts the gaze in motion.
Dense, vibrant, almost mineral colors act as a living material. The lines are free and incisive, emerging like an instinctive writing, close to a musical gesture — Ralf Altrieth is also a saxophonist, and this rhythmic dimension runs through his entire oeuvre.
But it is especially the scale that transforms the experience. With a width of 185 cm, this painting does not merely adorn a wall: it structures space, immediately captures attention, and continues to reveal details over time. Depending on light and distance, reading changes, renews itself, deepens.
Each painting by Ralf Altrieth develops its own universe: this one is distinguished by an unusually dense and fluid circulation.
It is addressed to those who seek an expressive and living painting that does not exhaust itself over time. It never fully reveals itself. At each look, new shapes emerge, new connections appear. It is a painting with which one lives — and that keeps evolving.
Works of this intensity and this format, rare on the market, hold a special place in Ralf Altrieth’s work. They are sought after for their ability to transform a space and to assert themselves as an anchor in an environment.
It is a work that is never perceived at a glance, that one keeps rediscovering, and that is precisely where its strength lies.
CRITIQUE AND PRESS:
Here is what art historian and museum director Dr. Friedhelm Häring writes about Ralf Altrieth’s work (excerpt):
"In this sense, the pictorial poems of Ralf Altrieth are a pure childish chant. From the crucible of improvisation, he conjures a pristine world of spontaneous joys and strong impulses... But the most astonishing thing manifested in these canvases is a communicative tenderness for the emotional states of the human being."
Writer Bernard Pignero (excerpt):
"There is in Ralf Altrieth’s painting a generosity with its own language, vivid and colorful, without turning color into a creed, funny without wanting to be caricatural, joyful without idealism, energetic without being thunderous, in short a deeply human language."
Journalist Stéphane Cerri (excerpt):
"The eye must rebound, cling, detach itself; it is captured by color, by the energy of the gesture, by strange cohabitations, by the musical rhythms of jazz where Ralf Altrieth also works as a saxophonist, a proponent of improvisation."
DETAILS:
Mixed media with oil, acrylic, and oil pastel on canvas, 2022
Thick canvas, professional quality
160 × 185 cm
Original work, hand-painted
Excellent condition
Signed and dated on the back by the artist
Certificate of authenticity signed by the artist
Photos are taken in natural light, respecting as closely as possible the rendering of true hues. The lifestyle visuals help appreciate the dimensions and the painting’s physical presence. Proportions are preserved.
A professional fixative has been applied to stabilize the pigments and preserve the surface of the work over time.
SHIPPING:
The canvas is shipped rolled, carefully protected in a sturdy tube to ensure safe transport.
The indicated dimensions refer to the work once mounted on a stretcher. The canvas includes extra white margins to allow proper re-stretching. The buyer can entrust this work to a local framer.
NOTABLE EXHIBITIONS:
2025
MAC Paris
GALLERY LATELIER, Sète
2024
Gallery LATELIER, Sète
2023
Espace d’art Chaillioux, Fresnes
A.R.P.A.C., Castelnau-Le-Lez
Gallery Le Lieu Multiple, Montpellier
2020
Galerie N5, Montpellier
2019
Château d’Assas, Le Vigan
Exhibition Nomadic Artists, Aubais
2018
A DESSIN 4, Sète
MAC Paris, Paris
Gallery My Art Goes Boom, Sète
2017
Gallery La Salamandre, Nîmes
Gallery 75, Rouen
SMAC Festival, Toulon
2016
MAC Paris, Paris
Pop Up, Notre-Dame de la Rouvière
Gallery My Art Goes Boom, Nîmes
Espace des Arts, Le Boulou
2015
L’Appart’ à Part, Nîmes
Gallery Plurielle, Sète
2014
Gallery U, Baiersbronn, Germany
2013
Gallery Théo de Seine, Paris
Gallery L’Étang D’Art, Bages
2012
Gallery Théo de Seine, Paris
Gallery Via Arte, Honfleur
2011
La Réserve, Orbec, with Gérard Délafosse
Laboratoire feadback, Saint Martin de la Lieue
2010
Gallery 175, Dozulé
2009
Gallery Au Quai Dock, Lisieux
2000
Gallery Hartmut Beck, Erlangen, Germany
1998
Gallery Hartmut Beck, Erlangen, Germany
1993
EWE, Freiburg, Germany
Seller's Story
Ralf Altrieth is a Franco-German painter, recognized for his expressive and spontaneous universe, at the border between figuration and abstraction.
His work, nourished by more than thirty years of creation between painting and music, is distinguished by a rare pictorial energy and a particularly sensitive language. Trained in his teens with the painter Georg Schaible, then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nürtingen at the end of the 1980s, his works are today in numerous private collections around the world. Shown in many galleries and European art venues, he lives and works today in the south of France.
Translated by Google TranslateThere are works that we look at. And others in which we step in.
This painting by Ralf Altrieth belongs to the second category.
The gaze circulates without ever really settling. Forms appear, transform, disappear — silhouettes, fragments, barely named presences. Nothing is imposed, everything is built in relation to the viewer.
“What is directly visible matters to me less than what can happen when looking. This is how I bring my paintings to life, from the very first stroke.” — Ralf Altrieth
Here, painting does not tell a story: it puts the gaze in motion.
Dense, vibrant, almost mineral colors act as a living material. The lines are free and incisive, emerging like an instinctive writing, close to a musical gesture — Ralf Altrieth is also a saxophonist, and this rhythmic dimension runs through his entire oeuvre.
But it is especially the scale that transforms the experience. With a width of 185 cm, this painting does not merely adorn a wall: it structures space, immediately captures attention, and continues to reveal details over time. Depending on light and distance, reading changes, renews itself, deepens.
Each painting by Ralf Altrieth develops its own universe: this one is distinguished by an unusually dense and fluid circulation.
It is addressed to those who seek an expressive and living painting that does not exhaust itself over time. It never fully reveals itself. At each look, new shapes emerge, new connections appear. It is a painting with which one lives — and that keeps evolving.
Works of this intensity and this format, rare on the market, hold a special place in Ralf Altrieth’s work. They are sought after for their ability to transform a space and to assert themselves as an anchor in an environment.
It is a work that is never perceived at a glance, that one keeps rediscovering, and that is precisely where its strength lies.
CRITIQUE AND PRESS:
Here is what art historian and museum director Dr. Friedhelm Häring writes about Ralf Altrieth’s work (excerpt):
"In this sense, the pictorial poems of Ralf Altrieth are a pure childish chant. From the crucible of improvisation, he conjures a pristine world of spontaneous joys and strong impulses... But the most astonishing thing manifested in these canvases is a communicative tenderness for the emotional states of the human being."
Writer Bernard Pignero (excerpt):
"There is in Ralf Altrieth’s painting a generosity with its own language, vivid and colorful, without turning color into a creed, funny without wanting to be caricatural, joyful without idealism, energetic without being thunderous, in short a deeply human language."
Journalist Stéphane Cerri (excerpt):
"The eye must rebound, cling, detach itself; it is captured by color, by the energy of the gesture, by strange cohabitations, by the musical rhythms of jazz where Ralf Altrieth also works as a saxophonist, a proponent of improvisation."
DETAILS:
Mixed media with oil, acrylic, and oil pastel on canvas, 2022
Thick canvas, professional quality
160 × 185 cm
Original work, hand-painted
Excellent condition
Signed and dated on the back by the artist
Certificate of authenticity signed by the artist
Photos are taken in natural light, respecting as closely as possible the rendering of true hues. The lifestyle visuals help appreciate the dimensions and the painting’s physical presence. Proportions are preserved.
A professional fixative has been applied to stabilize the pigments and preserve the surface of the work over time.
SHIPPING:
The canvas is shipped rolled, carefully protected in a sturdy tube to ensure safe transport.
The indicated dimensions refer to the work once mounted on a stretcher. The canvas includes extra white margins to allow proper re-stretching. The buyer can entrust this work to a local framer.
NOTABLE EXHIBITIONS:
2025
MAC Paris
GALLERY LATELIER, Sète
2024
Gallery LATELIER, Sète
2023
Espace d’art Chaillioux, Fresnes
A.R.P.A.C., Castelnau-Le-Lez
Gallery Le Lieu Multiple, Montpellier
2020
Galerie N5, Montpellier
2019
Château d’Assas, Le Vigan
Exhibition Nomadic Artists, Aubais
2018
A DESSIN 4, Sète
MAC Paris, Paris
Gallery My Art Goes Boom, Sète
2017
Gallery La Salamandre, Nîmes
Gallery 75, Rouen
SMAC Festival, Toulon
2016
MAC Paris, Paris
Pop Up, Notre-Dame de la Rouvière
Gallery My Art Goes Boom, Nîmes
Espace des Arts, Le Boulou
2015
L’Appart’ à Part, Nîmes
Gallery Plurielle, Sète
2014
Gallery U, Baiersbronn, Germany
2013
Gallery Théo de Seine, Paris
Gallery L’Étang D’Art, Bages
2012
Gallery Théo de Seine, Paris
Gallery Via Arte, Honfleur
2011
La Réserve, Orbec, with Gérard Délafosse
Laboratoire feadback, Saint Martin de la Lieue
2010
Gallery 175, Dozulé
2009
Gallery Au Quai Dock, Lisieux
2000
Gallery Hartmut Beck, Erlangen, Germany
1998
Gallery Hartmut Beck, Erlangen, Germany
1993
EWE, Freiburg, Germany
Seller's Story
Ralf Altrieth is a Franco-German painter, recognized for his expressive and spontaneous universe, at the border between figuration and abstraction.
His work, nourished by more than thirty years of creation between painting and music, is distinguished by a rare pictorial energy and a particularly sensitive language. Trained in his teens with the painter Georg Schaible, then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nürtingen at the end of the 1980s, his works are today in numerous private collections around the world. Shown in many galleries and European art venues, he lives and works today in the south of France.
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Artist
Ralf Altrieth
Sold with frame
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Direct from the artist
Edition
Original
Title of artwork
Tout ou rien - XXL
Technique
Mixed media
Signature
Hand signed
Country of origin
France
Year
2022
Condition
Excellent condition
Colour
Multicolour
Height
160 cm
Width
185 cm
Style
Abstract Expressionism
Period
2020+
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