PETER ROBERT KEIL – ORIGINAL ABSTRACT PAINTING on LARGE VASE, One of a Kind

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PETERROBERT KEIL – ORIGINAL ABSTRACT PAINTING on LARGE VASE, One of aKind Peter Robert Keil (1942 - ) United States / Germany Neo Expressionist ABSTRACT painting on Large VASE Hand signed in acrylic by the artist, Peter Keil, (aka The Wildman of Berlin) Dimensions: Approximately 22”high x 12”diameter Base diameter= 7.25” Opening on top of vase = 5.25” INSURED SHIPPING within the 48 contiguous states. The art vase is in excellent condition! This is a very unique, colorful and interesting piece of original art! NOTE: Please see my other auctions for more fine art pieces by Frederick Hart, Peter Max, Alexandra Nechita, George Rodrigue, Al Hirschfeld, Adrian Deckbar, Jim Tweedy, Shlomi Haziza, Ronnie Wood, Grace Slick, Ferdie Pacheco, Peter Robert Keil & Anthony Quinn, plus lots of other cool stuff!! ABOUT THE ARTIST – PETER ROBERT KEIL Peter Robert Keil was born in August 1942 in Züllichau I Pommern (now Poland). His father was killed in the early years of World War II. After the death of his father on the Eastern Front, mother and son set out to make their way through the chaos of battered Germany to West Berlin. There he grew up in the neighborhood of grey blocks of houses, the typical backyards and the trees of the park nearby. There the young Keil attended school with singer and actress Conny Froboess and film star Horst Buchholz.Ten-year-old Peter Robert Keil fascinated by the books he found in the art section of the local library. There he admired the works of the Expressionists, Picasso in particular. The expressiveness of the vivid color opened a way to temporarily escape from the dullness and depression of everyday life in post-war Germany as Peter made his first attempts at visual art. In the beginning, Peter studied and copied the style of the great master Picasso whom he later met in Spain. The public response to Peter's work was positive with a few quick sales but buyers encouraged him to develop his own signature style.At the age of 15 he met the painter Otto Nagel, who was working on social background studies and became his first teacher and mentor. Otto Nagel introduced Keil to painting techniques, taught him realistic painting, and how to deal with colors. As a young man, Keil accompanied Nagel on his tours of Berlin's back streets. They often painted from nature and the young Keil learned to see his neighborhood with the eyes of an artist. Teaching him the painters craft and introducing him to outdoor painting, Nagel also influenced his motif as well as his palette. Keil refined his technique and broadened his knowledge when he studied at Berlin's "Akademie für Bildende Künste." While at the Berlin Academy of Fines Arts, Keil treated his studies cavalierly. Thought to be an advanced student by his instructors, the Academy brought about some important acquaintances and contacts. There he met Baselitz, Fetting, Lupertz and Schonebeck and made friends with Salome, Schmettau and other important artists. In 1961 he attended Baselitz's and Schonebeck's public presentation of their "Pandemonium Manifesto" at the "Grossgorschen 35" gallery. Keil also became at regular at Herta Fiedler's who much like Gertrude Stein in her day, became known as the "artists' mother." Keil was a well-known denizen of "Kleine Weltlaterne" in Moritzplatz, a meeting place for the emerging avant-garde "Junge Wilde" ("YoungFauves") artists, and he became the darling of art circles earning him the nickname the 'Wild man of Berlin" for his passion for art and living. The erection of the Berlin Wall interrupted the relationship with his famous mentor when Nagel was trapped beyond the Wall in East Berlin. Another important factor in those formative years of Keil's artistic development was his close friendship with the painter Juan Miro whom he had met in Mallorca, Spain in the early sixties. Mirò repeatedly invited him to his studio in Palma, high above the Gala Major bay. The intense sunlight as well as th... read more

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