Acrylic on canvas
Germany, 1993
Helge Leiberg (b. 1954) – German painter, graphic artist, sculptor, performance artist and musician
Signed and dated ‘Leiberg 93’ lower left
Dimensions: 200 x 159.5 cm
Frame: 202 x 162 cm
Good condition
Exhibition: Galerie Rössler, Munich

The main motive in Helge Leiberg’s work is the human body in movement that he likes to depict dancing-wise or translated them himself into dance performances. His manner of painting is dominated, as shown in the current piece, by expressive colorfulness and intense movement.

Condition:

The painting is besides scattered faint dusty spots in marginal areas in very good condition, the wooden frame bars with some traces of use. The stretcher measures 200 x 159.5 cm and the total dimensions with the frame are 202 x 162 cm.

Helge Leiberg (b. 1954)

The Dresden painter apprenticed as a positive retoucher and studied at the University of Fine Arts in Dresden in the class of Gerhard Kettner. In 1979, he founded together with Michael Freudenberg and A. R. Penck he founded a painter’s band. In the same year the collaboration with the guitarist Lothar Fiedler began. Leiberg works with the media music, film, dance and visual art. In 1990, he founded the performance group GOKAN, where he increasingly applied the Noise-Painting technique, a life electronic implementation of sign noises into sound, that he had developed himself. His works are for example in the possession of the collections of the Berlinische Galerie, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Collection of Prints, Drawings and Photograph Dresden and the Würth Collection. (tm)

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