Ralf Altrieth - Here and there - XXXL
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Ralf Altrieth's original 2023 oil and acrylic on canvas titled Here and there - XXXL, 205 × 260 cm, a unique hand-painted work signed at the back and issued with a certificate of authenticity, produced in France.
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Description from the seller
A monumental, joyful, and almost cosmic improvisation.
At first glance, Ralf Altrieth's painting seems to erupt in a free and instinctive surge. Then the gaze lingers—and gradually discovers a world more complex, pierced by a tumult of appearances, a freedom inhabited. Nothing is fixed. It is a living chaos, pulsing and evolving constantly according to distance, light, and the time spent before it.
In this universe, the boundary between abstraction and figuration remains deliberately unstable. Unpredictable forms emerge, never settling. The gaze is challenged, set in motion. Seeing becomes an active, almost physical experience.
But beyond their immediate energy, the works of Ralf Altrieth settle durably into space. They settle in through their density. Through their presence. And through this rare ability to transform the space in which they take place.
TECHNIQUE:
Oil and acrylic on canvas, 2023
Thick, professional-grade canvas
205 × 260 cm
Unique work, handmade
Excellent condition
Signed and dated on the back by the artist
Certificate of authenticity signed by Ralf Altrieth
CRITIQUE AND PRESS:
"In this sense, Ralf Altrieth's pictorial poems are a pure childlike chant. From the crucible of improvisation he conjures a world intact, made of spontaneous joys and strong impulses."
— Dr Friedhelm Häring, art historian and museum director
"His gesture- and color-driven writing describes a world open to new voices and to experiments never attempted. His canvases and works on paper demonstrate that painting remains a major expression of the contemporary scene."
— Laurent Puech, art historian and curator
SHIPPING:
The canvas is shipped rolled, carefully protected in a sturdy tube to ensure safe transport.
The listed dimensions correspond to the work when mounted on its stretcher. The canvas includes additional white margins to allow easy re-tensioning. The buyer can entrust this work to their local framer.
NOTABLE EXHIBITIONS:
MAC Paris
A.R.P.A.C., Castelnau-Le-Lez
Galerie N5, Montpellier
Château d'Assas, Le Vigan
A DESSIN 4, Sète
SMAC Festival, Toulon
Galerie U, Baiersbronn, Germany
Galerie Théo de Seine, Paris
Galerie Via Arte, Honfleur
Galerie Hartmut Beck, Erlangen, Germany
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 TranslateA monumental, joyful, and almost cosmic improvisation.
At first glance, Ralf Altrieth's painting seems to erupt in a free and instinctive surge. Then the gaze lingers—and gradually discovers a world more complex, pierced by a tumult of appearances, a freedom inhabited. Nothing is fixed. It is a living chaos, pulsing and evolving constantly according to distance, light, and the time spent before it.
In this universe, the boundary between abstraction and figuration remains deliberately unstable. Unpredictable forms emerge, never settling. The gaze is challenged, set in motion. Seeing becomes an active, almost physical experience.
But beyond their immediate energy, the works of Ralf Altrieth settle durably into space. They settle in through their density. Through their presence. And through this rare ability to transform the space in which they take place.
TECHNIQUE:
Oil and acrylic on canvas, 2023
Thick, professional-grade canvas
205 × 260 cm
Unique work, handmade
Excellent condition
Signed and dated on the back by the artist
Certificate of authenticity signed by Ralf Altrieth
CRITIQUE AND PRESS:
"In this sense, Ralf Altrieth's pictorial poems are a pure childlike chant. From the crucible of improvisation he conjures a world intact, made of spontaneous joys and strong impulses."
— Dr Friedhelm Häring, art historian and museum director
"His gesture- and color-driven writing describes a world open to new voices and to experiments never attempted. His canvases and works on paper demonstrate that painting remains a major expression of the contemporary scene."
— Laurent Puech, art historian and curator
SHIPPING:
The canvas is shipped rolled, carefully protected in a sturdy tube to ensure safe transport.
The listed dimensions correspond to the work when mounted on its stretcher. The canvas includes additional white margins to allow easy re-tensioning. The buyer can entrust this work to their local framer.
NOTABLE EXHIBITIONS:
MAC Paris
A.R.P.A.C., Castelnau-Le-Lez
Galerie N5, Montpellier
Château d'Assas, Le Vigan
A DESSIN 4, Sète
SMAC Festival, Toulon
Galerie U, Baiersbronn, Germany
Galerie Théo de Seine, Paris
Galerie Via Arte, Honfleur
Galerie Hartmut Beck, Erlangen, Germany
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
No
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Direct from the artist
Edition
Original
Title of artwork
Here and there - XXXL
Technique
Acrylic painting, Oil painting
Signature
Hand signed
Country of origin
France
Year
2023
Condition
Excellent condition
Height
205 cm
Width
260 cm
Style
Expressionism
Period
2020+
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