Max Neumann (1949) - LETZTE WARNUNG

Max Neumann was born in Saarbrücken in 1949. He lives in Berlin and on the shores of the Baltic Sea. When he comes to Paris, he visits the engraving workshop of Galerie Maeght, ARTE, where the memory of Miró, Tapies, Kelly or Calder is still present. Today artists come there to use conventional and artisanal techniques such as Carborundum, Aquatint, Drypoint or Etching, but also to be able to combine them with powerful and new techniques and tools.

It is in this workshop that Max Neumann discovered, in 1990, the possibilities offered by these techniques; since then he has regularly gone there and created plates, each time reinvented and renewed. The monotype on glass particularly attracts him for its speed and the possibility of preserving his gestural spontaneity intact.

Max Neumann cultivates the power of his imagination, a taste for the bizarre, a sense of the unusual: faceless heads, enigmatic silhouettes, strange creatures, phantomlike characters in settings with dull tones and tilted perspectives. Max Neumann reveals a fiction that has neither beginning nor end and whose mechanism we are not able to understand. His work belongs to the realm of pure undefinable.

1982: Charlottenburger Kunstpreis
1983: laureate of the BDI (Federation of German Industry)
1984: Rubens Prize of the city of Siegen
1986: Villa Romana grant
1991: Art Prize of the artists of Düsseldorf
2003: Iserlohn Art Prize
2004: Grand Prix of SAS Prince Rainier III of Monaco

He lives in Berlin.

Work: 53x46.5 cm
Title: LETZTE WARNUNG, on the work at the bottom right
Technique: Original drawing, Mixed media
Date: August 29, 1988 noted on the work at the top left
Signed by the artist, at the top right.
Traceability: Work purchased by a private individual at Galerie Vidal Saint-Phalle, Paris. (on the back of the work)