Peter Robert Keil - Blauer Kopf

*The last living big Artist*
Peter Robert Keil is one of Germany's best-known and most accomplished contemporary painters and sculptors. Keil is famous for his bold and beautiful paintings that capture the essence of life. His works are found all over the world in museums, galleries, and also in private collections of the rich and famous. Peter Robert Keil painted alongside figures like Joan Miró, Picasso, Andy Warhol, Basquiat, as well as other artists, and is therefore often crowned as *The last living big Artist*.

Early and new works (originals) of the artist are hardly affordable on the world market anymore.

Very beautiful, extraordinary portrayal of a blue head. Studio Berlin 00, a wonderful decorative collector's item.

Dimensions without frame: H: 50 cm x W: 40 cm

Original artwork on canvas by the artist Peter Robert Keil with certificate of authenticity and gallery stamp.

The colors in the pictures may vary slightly (e.g., due to light reflections).

Oil/Acrylic mixed technique on canvas.

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Work description:

With “Blue Head” Peter Robert Keil reduces the expressive portrait to its essential elements: gaze, line, color, and emotional presence. The work appears both calm and intense—a striking combination of minimalist formal language and immediate expressiveness.

The monochrome color world of cool blues and whites gives the image a nearly meditative atmosphere. At the same time, the bold black outlines create a strong graphic tension, typical of Keil's late works around the turn of the millennium.

The direct gaze of the figure pulls the viewer directly into the image. The reduced physiognomy with the elongated nose, almond-shaped eyes, and intensely red lips evokes modern masks, urban drawing, and expressive pop aesthetics all at once.

Precisely the restriction to a few colors reinforces the emotional impact of the work. The picture is clear, iconic, and timelessly modern—almost like a symbolic image of silence, concentration, and inner presence.

An extraordinarily elegant work within Keil's expressive portrait series.

The composition radiates joie de vivre, directness, and artistic immediacy—a tribute to color itself and an optimistic statement for any collection.

His artistically gifted mother made her way with her son to West Berlin during the final phase of the war, where the two settled after the war. There Keil grew up in the working-class district of Berlin-Wedding and soon discovered his interest in painting—especially in expressionist artists as well as in the works of Pablo Picasso. The painter Otto Nagel, from East Berlin, became his mentor from around 1954 and taught him his first craftsmanship and painting techniques.

1962: First solo exhibition at the Art Gallery, London
1964: Rotebro Gallery, Sweden
1965: Great Berlin Art Exhibition
1966: Great Berlin Art Exhibition
1980: Dr. Friedmann Gallery, Israel
1985: Wewerka Gallery, Berlin
1986–1990: Free Berlin Art Exhibition, Messehallen, Berlin
1993: Carousel Gallery, Dania, Florida, USA
1998: Aventura Art Gallery, Aventura, Florida, USA
1999: Höckner Gallery, Salzburg, Austria
2000: Exhibitions in Paris, Amsterdam, London
2001–2005: Intercontinental Hotel Berlin
2002: International Art Fair, Frankfurt
2003: Sixty Years of Peter Robert Keil, Kunstsinn Gallery, Nuremberg
2005: Boxsler Gallery, Lichtenfels
2006: Public Library, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
2007: Villa Meixner, Collection of the KulturForum EuropA, Brühl/Baden
2007: Kessler Corporation, Orlando Florida, Savannah, Georgia, USA
2008: The Hurn Museum, Savannah, USA
2010: Keil-Collection Heidelberg, Long Night of Museums, Heidelberg
2010: Edna Hibel Fine Art Gallery, West Palm Beach, Florida
2011: Keil-Collection Heidelberg, Long Night of Museums, Heidelberg
2012: Retrospective “Life in a Color Riot”, Schwetzingen Palace, Orangerie
2012: Keil ArtCollection Marburg, Night of Art, Marburg
2012: "Ladies Night at Paris Bar", Keil ArtCollection Marburg, Marburg City Festival
2012: "Teufelswerk", Staatliche Majolika Manufaktur Karlsruhe
2013: Breakthrough – Latest Works from the Heidelberg Phase, Alte Feuerwache Heidelberg
2014: Current Works, Berlin, Temporary Gallery Potsdamer Straße
2014: New Keil Works, Keil Collection Heidelberg, Heidelberg
2014/2015: Peter Robert Keil as guest at the Heidelberg City Hall, Heidelberg Town Hall
2015: "Verleden, heden, toekomst" (Past, present, future), Waaggebouw Arnhem
2015: Peter Robert Keil as guest in the Romanesque Cellar, Romanischer Keller Heidelberg
2015: Peter Robert Keil as guest in the Old Indoor Pool, Altes Hallenbad Heidelberg
2015: "P.R. Keil – the latest Brand", Staatliche Majolika Manufaktur Karlsruhe
2015: Exhibition in the Museum Room in Wolfsbrunnen, Wolfsbrunnen Heidelberg
2016: art Karlsruhe 2016, Karlsruhe
2016: ART.FAIR, Cologne
2016: Affordable Art Fair 2016, Hamburg
2016: Peter Robert Keil as guest in the P13 Gallery, Heidelberg
2017: art Karlsruhe 2017 - one artist show, Karlsruhe
2017: Solo exhibition New Jersey, USA
2017: Red Art Salon, Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden
2017: Affordable Art Fair 2017, Hamburg
2017: Studio Exhibition Banyalbufar, Mallorca
2017: Solo Exhibition "Life in a Color Riot 2", Heidelberg Castle
2018: art Karlsruhe 2018 - one artist show, Karlsruhe
2018 Affordable Art Fair Hamburg / Affordable Art Fair Brussels
2019 art Karlsruhe, Gallery P 13
2019 Affordable Art Fair Hamburg / Affordable Art Fair Brussels
2021 Residence at Xylon Museum Schwetzingen
2022 Artist-in-residence Xylon Museum Schwetzingen
2022 Studio exhibition Xylon Museum Schwetzingen
2022 "IchFarbe - a painter says I" - Anniversary exhibition at Heidelberg Castle