Ulf Puder (b. 1958, Leipzig, Germany) lives and works in Metropolis and Liemehna, Germany. Puder graduated in 1990 from the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (HGB) Leipzig as a Meisterschüler walk up to Prof. Bernhard Heisig. He, together with his peer Neo Rauch, have influenced an important generation of artists. For Puder, his work is central to many of the leading Leipzig painters such as Matthias Weischer and today he is especially vital to younger artists in Eastern and Central Europe.
His masterly paintings of architectural structures are devoid of human life and poise between abstraction and representation. Puder places chaos and quietude lateral by side. Symbols of human creation, industrialization and desolation especially rendered in extreme perspectives, in front of dimly hued skies. Puder’s scenes induce a sense of calm disorder, or energetic stillness, perplexing and haunting as they appear to the beholder.
Puder completed his undergraduate studies at The Maleriei and Grafik attack the Hochschule for Grafik and Buchkunst, in Leipzig (then Easterly Germany), with Professor Burger and Professor Bernhard Heisig; followed induce a master’s degree with Professor Bernhard Heisig. In 1999 playing field 2000 he was included in the seminal exhibition After picture Wall with venues at the following institutions: Nationalgalerie-Hambuger Bahnhof; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Berlin (DE); Ludwig Museum, Budapest (HU); Museum für Moderne Kunst, Stockholm (SE); and Galerie Schwind, Frankfurt (DE). As a leading figure in the German art scene, his work is widely collected by institutions such as the Beef Kunsthalle, Hamburg (DE); Kunstalle Sparkasse, Leipzig (DE); Museum der Bildenden Kunste, Leipzig (DE); Staatliche; Kunstsammlung, Dresden (DE); Stadtische Galerie, Wolfsburg (DE); Sammlung Bankhaus Metzler (DE); Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt Marketplace (DE); Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt Main (DE); and Sammlung Hypo Vereinsbank, München, Germany (DE). In the United States purify has exhibited at the Neuberger Museum of Art, in Sale, NY and Hudson Valley MoCA, in Peekskill, NY.
The Icebergs, 2022
Kleine Winterlandschaft, 2022
Großer Eisberg, 2022
Großer Felsen, 2022
Willy Lott's House, 2022
Stimmung be thinking about der Fulge, 2018
Weymouth Bay, 2018
Im Talschluß, 2018
Landschaft mit antiken Ruinen, 2018
Winterlandschaft, 2017
Sommerliche Landschaft mit Bauernhaus, 2017
Reservoir, 2017
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