Peter Krauskopf
followBorn: 1966, Leipzig, Germany
Education: Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (HGB), Leipzig (1989-1995), master student of Professor Arno Rink (1995–1997)
Peter Krauskopf is preoccupied with the process of painting over. All his paintings - the color-intensive, smaller works on paper and the large-format paintings on canvas in monochrome color gradients - have one thing in common: they appear abstract at first glance. Yet they are concretizations of a passage of time: on homogeneous, smooth backgrounds consisting either of abraded, multilayered, formerly discarded images or monochrome underpaintings, the artist performs a single, image-forming intervention. Krauskopf, who always paints with oil on linen or paper, uses a squeegee or even a brush to apply a broad, even surface over an imagination that has already been there. This creates a symbiosis between an image of the past and its completion in the present. They combine his museum of images in the mind - especially that of American color field painting of the 1960s, German Romanticism, and 17th century Dutch painting - with the painter's intuition in the here and now. Born in 1966, Peter Krauskopf completed his studies in painting at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (HGB) in Leipzig in 1997 as a master student of Professor Arno Rink. Since then, the works of the Berlin-based artist have been shown in numerous institutional solo exhibitions. In addition, Peter Krauskopf's works are represented in many public collections, including the Kupferstichkabinett and Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden, the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, the Berlinische Galerie, and the Paul Löbe Haus for Members of the Bundestag, Berlin.
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