Ralf Altrieth - So gegen halb 5

This canvas is part of the latest works in this series created in 2014.

RALF ALTRIETH is a French-German painter recognized for his expressive and unique universe, at the border of figuration and abstraction.

Her work, nourished by more than thirty years of creation across painting, engraving, drawing, photography, and music, is distinguished by a rare pictorial energy and a particularly sensitive language.

Her works are exhibited in numerous art venues in France and internationally, notably at MAC Paris, Galerie Théo de Seine (Paris), Galerie N5 (Montpellier), Galerie Hartmut Beck (Erlangen), and Galerie La Salamandre (Nîmes). Today, her works are part of many private collections around the world.

Technical sheet
Acrylic painting on canvas
• Toilet and professional-grade paint
• Dimensions: 65 × 54 cm
Unique artwork, signed on the back by hand.
Certificate of authenticity provided

Shipping
Shipping method: rolled canvas, without frame and without chassis, in sturdy packaging.
Sold directly by Ralf Altrieth from his workshop in France.
Insured and tracked shipping.
The indicated dimensions correspond to the artwork once mounted on a frame. The canvas includes additional margins to allow for proper re-tensioning. The buyer can entrust this mounting to their local framer.

Press:
For several years, Ralf Altrieth has been painting episodes from an imaginary and fantastical world that he seems to have created entirely on his own. [...] His works challenge our certainties. They delve beneath the surface of things to focus on their essence.
Louis Doucet, art critic

In a game of depth and superposition, with an alternation of forms that converge inward or extend outward, Ralf Altrieth mixes genres, images, and styles, making them clash.

I learned an important thing from the painting of certain artists I feel close to (Basquiat, Penck, Bendix Harms, Baselitz, Garouste, Picasso...): it is radicality. I try to push painting further. Painting is something greater than myself. Radicality allows us to go further, to detach, to see more. Today, I find that by painting canvases, I am creating myself. It has nothing to do with whether I like painting or not. It’s more a matter of correctness.


Notable Exhibitions

2025
MAC Paris (from December 2 to 7, Bastille Design Center, 74 boulevard Richard-Lenoir, PARIS)
Galerie LATELIER, Sète

2024
Galerie LATELIER, Sète

2023
Chaillioux Art Space, Fresnes
A.R.P.A.C., Castelnau-Le-Lez
Galerie Le Lieu Multiple, Montpellier

2020
Galerie N5, Montpellier

2019
Château d'Assas, Le Vigan
Exhibition: The Nomadic Artists, Aubais

2018
At DESSIN 4, Sète
MAC Paris, Paris
Galerie My Art Goes Boom, Sète

2017
Galerie La Salamandre, Nîmes
Galerie 75, Rouen
SMAC Festival, Toulon

2016
MAC Paris, Paris
Pop Up, Notre-Dame de la Rouvière
My Art Goes Boom Gallery, Nîmes
Espace des Arts, Le Boulou

2015
L’Appart’ à Part, Nîmes
Galerie Plurielle, Sète

2014
Galerie U, Baiersbronn, Germany

2013
Théo de Seine Gallery, Paris
Galerie L’Étang D’Art, Bages

2012
Théo de Seine Gallery, Paris
Gallery Via Arte, Honfleur

2011
La Réserve, Orbec, with Gérard Délafosse
Laboratory feedback, Saint Martin de la Lieue

2010
Galerie 175, Dozulé

2009
Galerie Au Quai Dock, Lisieux

2000
Hartmut Beck Gallery, Erlangen, Germany

1998
Hartmut Beck Gallery, Erlangen, Germany

1993
EWE, Freiburg, Germany