Ralf Altrieth - Maintenant ou jamais - XXL
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Ralf Altrieth, Maintenant ou jamais - XXL, acrylic on canvas, 140 × 155 cm, original unique work signed by the artist in 2026 with certificate of authenticity, France provenance, sold directly by the artist.
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At first glance, this painting seems to tell its own world: fantastic animals, flowers, stars and signs mingle in a free, imaginative composition with an expressiveness that is almost instantly endearing.
Ralf Altrieth draws and paints here with great spontaneity. The shapes are deliberately simple, the outlines direct, the colors bold, as if the figures had been discovered rather than invented. Behind this apparent simplicity lies, however, a real sense of rhythm: the figures respond to each other, overlap, or seem to float around one another.
The moon, the stars, the flowers and the imaginary animals lend the whole a poetic, almost dreamlike dimension. There is something joyful and slightly offbeat in the composition, which gives the spectator a great freedom of interpretation.
The work thus radiates a particularly warm presence. It attracts with its colors and immediately recognizable shapes, then holds the eye with its inventiveness and its small details. In a contemporary interior, it brings a note of artistic freedom, playfulness and poetry, without ever losing the singular gesture of Ralf Altrieth.
TECHNIQUE:
Acrylic on canvas
Thick professional-grade canvas
140 × 155 cm
Original work, hand-painted
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 brings forth a pristine world made of spontaneous joys and strong impulses."
— Dr Friedhelm Häring, art historian and museum director
"His gestural and color writing describes a world opened to new voices and 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
MARGINS:
The indicated dimensions correspond to the artwork mounted on a frame. The canvas includes additional white margins to allow easy tensioning by your local framer.
SHIPPING:
The canvas is shipped rolled in a reinforced tube, specially designed to ensure maximum protection during transport. The work is entrusted to an express carrier offering home delivery, with full tracking and signature on delivery, to guarantee the best protection of the artwork until handover to the recipient.
Note: The presentation images are stylized suggestions created with AI based on photos of the actual work. Photos of the real object are authoritative (close-ups, the full work, back and profile photos). Tones may vary slightly depending on your screen’s color profile.
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 TranslateAt first glance, this painting seems to tell its own world: fantastic animals, flowers, stars and signs mingle in a free, imaginative composition with an expressiveness that is almost instantly endearing.
Ralf Altrieth draws and paints here with great spontaneity. The shapes are deliberately simple, the outlines direct, the colors bold, as if the figures had been discovered rather than invented. Behind this apparent simplicity lies, however, a real sense of rhythm: the figures respond to each other, overlap, or seem to float around one another.
The moon, the stars, the flowers and the imaginary animals lend the whole a poetic, almost dreamlike dimension. There is something joyful and slightly offbeat in the composition, which gives the spectator a great freedom of interpretation.
The work thus radiates a particularly warm presence. It attracts with its colors and immediately recognizable shapes, then holds the eye with its inventiveness and its small details. In a contemporary interior, it brings a note of artistic freedom, playfulness and poetry, without ever losing the singular gesture of Ralf Altrieth.
TECHNIQUE:
Acrylic on canvas
Thick professional-grade canvas
140 × 155 cm
Original work, hand-painted
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 brings forth a pristine world made of spontaneous joys and strong impulses."
— Dr Friedhelm Häring, art historian and museum director
"His gestural and color writing describes a world opened to new voices and 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
MARGINS:
The indicated dimensions correspond to the artwork mounted on a frame. The canvas includes additional white margins to allow easy tensioning by your local framer.
SHIPPING:
The canvas is shipped rolled in a reinforced tube, specially designed to ensure maximum protection during transport. The work is entrusted to an express carrier offering home delivery, with full tracking and signature on delivery, to guarantee the best protection of the artwork until handover to the recipient.
Note: The presentation images are stylized suggestions created with AI based on photos of the actual work. Photos of the real object are authoritative (close-ups, the full work, back and profile photos). Tones may vary slightly depending on your screen’s color profile.
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
Sold by
Direct from the artist
Edition
Original
Title of artwork
Maintenant ou jamais - XXL
Technique
Acrylic painting
Signature
Hand signed
Country of origin
France
Year
2026
Condition
Excellent condition
Height
140 cm
Width
155 cm
Style
Expressionism
Period
2020+
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