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Ulrich LamsfussContemporary German painter.
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- Ulrich Lamsfuss: A Contemporary German Painter
- Meticulous Replication
- Source Images: Tragedy and Glamour
Ulrich Lamsfuss: A Contemporary German Painter
Between Style and Mass MediaUlrich Lamsfuss is a contemporary German painter who belongs to a generation of artists whose work ranges stylistically from Post-Impressionism to Post-Expressionism and Photorealism. What further unifies them is their active use of mass media imagery and its transformation into a painted reality.
Meticulous Replication
Lamsfuss's paintings replicate images from various sources: fashion and travel magazines, films, and art history. He meticulously copies each image using a grid system, square by square, working from the upper left corner of the image to the lower right. Recreated in oil over several painstaking weeks, they are in this respect the opposite of their source materials - instant, split-second moments captured on film.
Source Images: Tragedy and Glamour
"Mutter und Kind" is based on a news photograph taken in a Somali hospital during the civil war by renowned Magnum photographer Chris Steele-Perkins. "Stefan Jellheden" reproduces an advertisement created by a Danish photographer for Louis Vuitton, which in turn was based on the iconic news photograph of a burning Vietnamese monk (1963). The former photograph captures a moment of grief and suffering from real life, while the latter is a staged image intended for mass consumption. As representations of the contemporary world, however, they are equally valid to the artist.
