Malerei aus Leipzig

Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea is proud to present “Malerei aus Leipzig”, an exhibition that gathers for the first time in Italy a nucleus of works by some of the most interesting contemporary German painters belonging to the so-called New Leipzig School: Tilo Baumgärtel, Peter Busch, Tom Fabritius, Rosa Loy and Christoph Ruckhäberle, all former students of the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig.
The outburst of contemporary German painting is due in part to some factors such as, for example, the rigorous academicism favored by the art schools of the former East Germany – in particular the Academies of Leipzig and Dresden. The wall that had divided East Germany from Western Europe for forty years had, in fact, allowed the students of the Academies beyond the Iron Curtain to continue to study the tradition of Cranach and Beckmann, while in West Germany Joseph Beuys' conceptual approach was spreading.
To fascinate the German public was, initially, the virtuosity of a painter like Neo Rauch, author of a surprising crasis between the values of traditional painting and the formulations of socialist Realism, already swept away by the process of national reunification. On the basis of Neo Rauch the phenomenon of the New Leipzig Schoolwas born, an extraordinary congeries of talents that in fact has marked the rebirth of German figurative painting.

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