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221 - Peter Robert Keil*
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Estimate €1,000 - €2,000
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Peter Robert Keil* (born 1942 in Sulechów) Set of 20 oil paintings oil on hardboard and canvas, approx. 65 × 50 cm to 100 × 70 cm partially signed, monogrammed and dated ESTIMATE €1,000 – €2,000 STARTING PRICE €1,000 Peter Robert Keil is a contemporary German painter and sculptor. He spent his early youth in West Berlin and was primarily influenced by Expressionist artists such as Pablo Picasso. The painter Otto Nagel, who came from East Berlin, became his artistic mentor from around 1954. In 1956, Keil began training as an art metalworker and then attended the Berlin University of the Arts. With the construction of the Berlin Wall, contact with Nagel was severed, and Keil increasingly moved abroad. Whilst studying at the university, Keil came into contact with other artists of his generation, such as Georg Baselitz, Eugen Schönebeck, Markus Lüpertz and Joachim Schmettau. During his time in Mallorca, he also met Joan Miró on several occasions in his studio. In his early days, Keil drew inspiration from German Expressionism, exploring big-city milieus and marginalised figures in society. From the 1960s onwards, during his time in Paris, he developed a more spontaneous and dynamic style of painting, which he continued to refine during his years in London and finally as part of the Berlin Neue Wilde movement in the early 1980s. Since then, the defining features of his painting style have been the use of intense, almost garish colours and a rejection of realistic objectivity. The application of paint is swift and occasionally impasto, and the motifs in his pictures are frequently distorted by graffiti-like elements. In terms of subject matter, Keil favours human figures, portraits, urban scenes, landscapes and floral still lifes. From the early 1960s, Keil worked from studios in Paris, London, Berlin and the USA. Today he lives and works in Bavaria, Berlin and Los Angeles. Other artists and styles: Neue Wilde, Bernd Koberling, Luciano Castelli, Rainer Fetting, Helmut Middendorf, Salomé, Bernd Zimmer, Elvira Bach, Peter Schlangenbader, Anne Jud, Berthold Schepers, G. L. Gabriel-Thieler, Rolf von Bergmann, A. R. Penck, Moritz Reichelt, Albert Oehlen, Markus Oehlen, Martin Kippenberger, Werner Büttner, Horst Gläsker, Hartmut Ritzerfeld, Franz-Bernd Becker, Bernhard Martin, Werner Büttner, Martin Kippenberger, Gustav Kluge, Albert Oehlen, Bettina Semmer, Hans Peter Adamski, Peter Bömmels, Walter Dahn, Jiří Georg Dokoupil, Leiko Ikemura, Gerard Kever, Dieter Horký, Gerhard Naschberger, Stefan Szczesny, Volker Tannert, Franz Hitzler, Siegfried Kaden, Peter Vogt, Troels Wörsel, Peter Angermann, Siegfried Anzinger, Erwin Bohatsch, Herbert Brandl, Gunter Damisch, Josef Danner, Alois Mosbacher, Thomas Reinhold, Hubert Scheibl, Hubert Schmalix, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Expressionism PLEASE NOTE: The purchase price comprises the highest bid plus the buyer’s premium, VAT and, where applicable, the artists’ resale rights fee and platform fee. In the case of standard taxation (marked °), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The statutory sales tax of 13 per cent (20 per cent for photographs) is added to the sum of the highest bid, the buyer’s premium and the platform fee. The buyer’s premium amounts to 28 per cent in the case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.
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Auction time 09/30/2026 at 10:00 AM
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