The Leipzig School of Painting

joe phelan · January 8th, 2006, 07:42 AM

From Sunday's New York Times Magazine:

this city of 500,000 in the distant east of Germany has acquired some of the art-world cachet of New York in the 50's or London in the 90's. Under the rubric of the "New Leipzig School," Eitel, Baumgärtel and several of their classmates - among them, Matthias Weischer, David Schnell, Christoph Ruckhäberle and Martin Kobe - have coalesced into a group phenomenon that, in the words of Joachim Pissarro, curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, is "suddenly the hottest thing on earth." Although the work of these painters, most of them in their early 30's, varies in content, style and quality, they share a technical skill, a devotion to figurative art and a predilection for dry-eyed, melancholy subject matter.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/08/ma...08leipzig.html

ozric9 · 03:47 AM

January 21st, 2006, 11:39 PM

I thought Saatchi's big thing was postmodernist installation and New Media work, with a splattering of painting by artists like Chris Offilli

ladyinred · February 21st, 2006, 04:44 PM

Well, ozric9 is right in one respect, which is that the Triumph of Painting exhibit did seem to champion artists in this school (they have put a lot into featuring painters like Matthias Weischer et al. and in their site). But I think the Triumph of Painting WAS a digression from Saatchi's normal focus.

January 8th, 2006, 07:42 AM	#1
joe phelan Editor Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 55	The Leipzig School of Painting From Sunday's New York Times Magazine: this city of 500,000 in the distant east of Germany has acquired some of the art-world cachet of New York in the 50's or London in the 90's. Under the rubric of the "New Leipzig School," Eitel, Baumgärtel and several of their classmates - among them, Matthias Weischer, David Schnell, Christoph Ruckhäberle and Martin Kobe - have coalesced into a group phenomenon that, in the words of Joachim Pissarro, curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, is "suddenly the hottest thing on earth." Although the work of these painters, most of them in their early 30's, varies in content, style and quality, they share a technical skill, a devotion to figurative art and a predilection for dry-eyed, melancholy subject matter. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/08/ma...08leipzig.html

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February 21st, 2006, 04:44 PM	#4
ladyinred Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 1	Well, ozric9 is right in one respect, which is that the Triumph of Painting exhibit did seem to champion artists in this school (they have put a lot into featuring painters like Matthias Weischer et al. and in their site). But I think the Triumph of Painting WAS a digression from Saatchi's normal focus.