GOLDROTSCHWARTZ
Different - Contrary - Absolute
With gutsy inspirations and fresh ideas, we would like to surprise you with our arts, our projects, our unrivalled exhibitions, originality and uniqueness, which would inspire you for the moment, if not for the rest of your life.
Our mission is to present not only German, but also international - emerging or already renowned - artists. The main goal is to create an exchange between nations and cultures of the world.
After longer stays abroad, we have been back home in Germany since 2023, where we are already working on future projects with very extraordinary artists, no matter if already renowned or young, emerging undiscovered talents.
Our diverve projects at various locations has already attracted a lot of attention and we promise to keep on working on our vision.
Virtual exhibition 1.9. - 31.10.2023
Birgit Borggrebe
Zwischen den Zeiten - Inmitten im Jetzt
Between the times - in the midst of the now
In the summer exhibition of the year 2023 we present you with unique impressions by Berlin artist Birgit Borggrebe, shown and awarded internationally.
Borggrebe's pictures are based on current themes, they show the harsh, abstract world of our cities, apocalyptic landscapes in a nightmarish reality, leftovers of the nature.
Uncompromising cycles of images -works made from a mixed technique between painting, photography and screen printing - that reflect current realities.
With delicate, bright colors and symbols, with floral elements, Birgit Borggrebe thwarts this, however, aware of all this. At the same time, they are poetic encounters – like fictional fairy tale worlds – looking for paradise?
Between the times. In the midst of the now.
Borggrebes works have long since arrived in the now. They have already landed on earth.
We take you with us into these everyday, fascinating ways of looking at things a world as it might be one day
Online exhibition from September 1 - October 31, 2023
Please also visit the exhibition in the virtual gallery at KUNSTMATRIX
Marked by life. Simply human.
Claude Duvauchelle
Paintings and drawings - Online exhibition 15.1. - 5.3.2022
Right at the beginning of the 2022 exhibition year, we would like to introduce you to the phenomenal works of the French artist Claude Duvauchelle.
Duvauchelle deals with the human body in his paintings, drawings and sculptures.
As a witness of his time, the artist tries to put into pictures the evils and alienation caused by the violence of modern civilizations. Through excessive and impossible poses, through bruises and injuries, he portrays a humanity that seems to have returned to its original instincts.
During his study visits to Milan and Paris, Duvauchelle discovered the art and teachings of the painters of the Italian Renaissance. Fascinated by the Old Masters such as Caravaggio and Mantegna, this serves as an inexhaustible source of inspiration for him.
Through a constantly deliberately varying painting technique, the artist succeeds in an impressive way in expressing these emotions, tensions and hopes of contemporary man and transporting them into his painting.
Duvauchelle's works are now being exhibited in well-known galleries throughout Europe and can now be admired in our current first exhibition in 2022.
Please also visit the exhibition in the virtual gallery at KUNSTMATRIX
Positive thougts – breathing the color, pure amazement
Peter Keizer
Floral paintings - Online exhibition 30.7. - 12.9.2021
In the middle of summer we would like to delight you with the refreshing oil paintings of the Dutch artist Peter Keizer. Keizer's works show surprising insights into everyday life. Simple objects, details and details that people in the often hectic world no longer notice or simply overlook.
Just let yourself fall into the grass... and look into the landscape... up to the trees...
In particular, Keizer's floral works blossom the heart, captivating the viewer with the intense luminosity of the colors, applied in many layers. They exude a unique positive and joyful atmosphere.
Beautiful, so beautiful... that in 30 – 40 years one will still be admiring and smiling in front of the paintings...so an excerpt of an opening speech from an earlier exhibition.
Peter Keizer studied at the Amsterdam Imperial Academy of Fine Arts and at the Royal Art College in London and is now a world-renowned artist.
We would now like to take you into these color worlds in the current exhibition from 30.7. – 12.9.2021 and let you participate in these positive thoughts... which grow through the middle of life to heaven.
Further available exhibits can be found in the section "Ausstellungen"
Neues entsteht. Im Kreislauf von Werden und Vergehen
Csaba Fazakas
Work series "Homo deus"
Online exhibition April, 12 - May 31, 2021
CSABA FAZAKAS, an intellectual artist with an experimental temperament who consciously draws on avant-garde traditions of the 20th century. His art is characterized by sensitivity to individual and social problems. At the same time through a special timelessness and universality.
After studying painting, graphics and ceramics in Romania and later as a student of great masters like Arnulf Rainer in Austria, Fazakas is still perfecting his knowledge today through scientific methods that he consciously incorporates into his work. His outstanding art, that have been admired for more than 30 years in numerous group and solo exhibitions from Bucharest to Berlin, from Vienna to Tokyo is represented in private and public collections all around the world.
Csaba Fazakas also shows his admiration for expressive phrases and Art Brut - art in its raw state, so to speak – also here in the works of the series "Homo deus".
The use of strong gestures and fine breaks, which are reduced to an almost black and white coloring, gives his art and these works an extremely touching, almost dramatic feeling.
Raumfarbenspiel. Die Vereinigung der Gegensätze
Thomas Schönauer
Sculptures and CTpaintings
Online exhibition November 15, 2021 - January 20, 2021
Thomas Schönauer is an internationally known painter and sculptor with worldwide successful exhibitions of his metalwork and steel sculptures in public spaces.
In a specially developed and innovative painting technique in close collaboration with industry, Schönauer dedicates his Space Paintings on Steel and the so-called CT Paintings, the Computer Tomography Paintings, to the dialogue of the union of chemical opposites.
He lets thick epoxy resin with pigments of the basic colors flow over stainless steel plates. Thomas Schönauer creates painterly organic processes that lead us to painting the day after tomorrow.
Online Exhibition with the artist of the month September 2020
Thea Vos
Reveries. Sometimes together, but mostly alone
Exhibition 1..9. - 18.10..2020
The unique work of Dutch artist Thea Vos is influenced by emotion.
Fascinated by emotion as a universal fact - regardless of culture, race and Zeitgeist. In her paintings, people and animals are represented in a variety of ways. Sometimes alone, often several figures on one canvas. "People stare at you, whether in their nudity or not. They seem soulless, lonely and their words fall silent ”.
Thea Vos`paintings have already been shown and exhibited across Europe and could be admired in our exhibition from September 1 - 30, 2020.
Artist of the month - July - August 2020
Annette Besgen - Spiegelungen. Schatten im Blick
Online exhibition with works from the series Bacino I and Bacino II
The series of works “Bacino”, based on own photographs, lets you pause for a moment at the existentially rooted longing for light. Annette Besgen “Bacinos” are miraculous light structures created with the brush, reflections of only a single moment of reality experienced.
The viewer is almost asked to immerse himself in what is painted on the canvas, to surrender to the phenomenon of light and shadow. Again and again, light and shadow are what the artist absorbs and has always fascinated the most.
Confrontation and meditation, between moment in time and timelessness. All of this causes Annette Besgen to come to a standstill on the canvas.
Absolute silence, lingering in yourself, experiencing this single moment.
You could experience this intensity, this strength, with the "Bacinos" rising over time and place in our online exhibition from 1.7. - 28.8.2020
Artist of the month June 2020
Claudia Kaak - Gefühlte Welten. Momente im Sein.
In the June 2020 online exhibition we have shown the unique and realistic paintings by the figurative painter Claudia Kaak.
Claudia Kaak's works have autobiographical and socially critical references. They deal with existential feelings - a psychological, emotional moment, subtle inner emotions of the people depicted. Her paintings and drawings furthermore deal with topics that the artist has gone through and experienced. Claudia Kaak wants to break the taboo of not being allowed to talk about feelings and mental disorders.
With this exhibition we would like to let you participate in the very personal works of the artist, who has recently gained international recognition and has been awarded prizes worldwide.
Artist of the month May 2020 - Uwe Fehrmann - Between times
The focus of Uwe Fehrmanns work is the human being in his dialectical relationship to society and environment.
The Hamburg based painter Fehrmann creates complex pictorial works that refer to current but also fundamental questions.
Social themes, which can be found again and again in his often large-format works, are the subjects of deconstruction, abolition and forgetting about political upheavals when viewed superficially.
Individual attributes evoke associations with the German-German history as well as current positions.
Christian von Grumbkow - Artist of the month April 2020
"I do not paint a message. No thoughts. I simply paint colour."
Christian v. Grumbkow's paintings are landscape-like areas, often featuring vertical gradients and stripes applied in many layers. He deals with the light phenomena of nature and captures them in his works.
Out of a chaos of colors, which often corresponds to the current state of the artist's soul, he creates a turbulent image. Gradients and bold colors become calmer and more meditative as the process progresses. These emotions carry over to the viewer.
About the painting of ROLF OHST
Shiny heaps of meat just as in a butchery, stacked bodily masses, resembling of rolled pork roast, fatty bodies looking like plucked chicken. Rolf Ohst's fascination for immense carnality and the special presentation would instantly remind one of Roald Dahls narraton "pig" in which a seclusively linving vegetarian comes to town, learns to love meat just to be slaughtered himself, if there weren't decided motives that are borrowed by Rolf Ohst from the art history.
From Botticelli's "Birth of Venus", Giorgiones "Venus in a landscape", Tizians Venus in bourgeois interior via nudes by Rembrandt, Manet, Renoir, Modigliani, Matisse, up to Cézanne or Corinth - Rolf Ohst cites them all. Doing that, he overreaches the baroque plentitude to the extreme.
He paints Botticelli's Venus in gracefully trembling shy corpulence and placing his figures in maritime landscapes with dramaticly clouded skies which let the famous dutch masterpieces come to life alltough the figures are kept characteristic of classic modern.
When he names his resting, fat beauty reminiscent of a stranded whale gasping for breath, after Edward Munch's famous "The Scream" the sampling becomes perfect. Rolf Ohst manages to tie in with best traditions of nude-painting in a disrespectful humorous way and to convert them into the presence.
Dr. Stefani Lucci, Art-historian - 2009 (http://www.artists.de)
Jörg Menge
Jörg Menges work expresses the loss caused by the elimination of the “true world” (F. Nietzsche) of religion and metaphysics.
As “broken and deformed” bodies men and women are moving towards the viewer. At the same time, in spite of their movement the impression of a static presence arises. The bodies move separate or in intertwined groups in an undefined space. Most of them are naked, occasionally wearing coloured working clothes. Whilst melting into groups they still remain individuals. They are individuals in an empty space.
Jörg Menges paintings present the whirl of human atoms in an empty space. The contorted bodies express the loss of truth. They are deformed truth. As atomized bodies they are “the kind of movement like an abysmal crash in an improper sense of being”
Walter Padao
The confrontation of complex relations with physicality and movement in space constitutes the main aspect of Walter Padao’s images.
The interaction of the oscillating plasticity of moving bodies within spirited stage spaces opens up a picture puzzle: contraction and expansion, proximity and distance, acceleration and deceleration - flowing transitions and abrupt changes of movement in a flash but focused pause.
The mostly unusual, sometimes grotesque appearing postures and dynamic movements of the figures create lines of force and areas of tension, traces of fleeting choreographies, which unite themselves to enigmatic arrangements.
Walter Padao studied painting in Kassel, Bologna and Nuremberg (Master student of Johannes Grützke), lives and works in Dusseldorf.
www.padao.de
Hanjo Schmidt
Hanjo Schmidt has devoted himself to painting, observing and painting the bodies and faces of those from ages 25 to 35. But in 2009 he began to concentrate on the aging body, recognizing that this was likely a taboo topic. And while he painted some portraits on commission and selected certain older friends who had experienced life to be his nidus, he soon realized that he was carrying his own best model with him at all times –himself.
Using the camera to photograph his own gravity-challenged corpus he came upon some interesting observations: the youthful body is about movement, speed and strength – all concentrated in the strong taut extremities, strong and beautiful and full of energy.
Following these visual and kinetic-informed notes and in reference to his own body habitus, Schmidt, in his thoughtful and philosophical approach to the aging body, shares the following: ‘The old body is concentrated in the torso. Arms and legs become more and more weak and thin, ugly and immovable.
About the work of Willi Kissmer
Willi Kissmer was a contemporary west-german artist working in realism, that most uncontemporary of styles and has been described as a young master working in the style of the Old Masters.
Willi Kissmer has built a solid reputation and an avid following in Europe und furthermore in the USA with his quietly beautiful paintings and graphic works.
Unlike the work of many of his contemporaries, the paintings of Willi Kissmer are not abstract or expressionistic but instead are tied to a long tradition of realism in Northern European painting.
The subjects of his pieces are simple still lifes, scenes from residential architecture and the female figure, each rendered with a fine eye to detail and a slightly disquieting sense of heightened observation.
Ralf Rduch
Ralf Rduch creates large-sized nude paintings. His only motif is the human being who is posing nude exclusively. By abandoning clothing his cultural background, social status and that what he wants to represent most is not apparent. Clothing implies pretending – the body itself though will never be a feint.
This concentration on the individual is yet intensified by the fact that the posing characters are positioned in a free space. There is no spatiality, no tangible reality, mostly only some monochrome space, in front of which they are arranged – stage-like- and illuminated from above on the right.
By the concurrence of extreme light- and shadow sections, the bodies have a very vivid appearance.
To the artist, twelve is the figure of truth, eleven the will to approach the truth. The eleven shades thus represent the wish to achieve awareness on one hand, but also the knowledge that this is impossible after all. However, there is one feasible approach! The twelfth color is present in the painting – it is the background colour.
Information about all the artists, questions about the exhibitions, prices and formats at:
info@grs-arthouse.com