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Neo Rauch – Gefährten und Begleiter

Neo Rauch is known for his large figurative paintings inspired by events from German history. Nicola Graef observes the extremely camera-shy painter at work in his studio in Leipzig and talks to his companions.

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German artists are measured by how much their art mirrors German history, or better yet, the German soul, more than artists from other countries. This is a tradition, and internationally renowned post-war German artists deal with the eventful history in a direct manner: Joseph Beuys, Anselm Kiefer, Gerhard Richer, and Neo Rauch are unmistakably “German” in their own way and that’s what makes them so interesting for collectors and curators.
Their gaze, the outside gaze, was the initial focus of Nicola Graef’s work in her film about Neo Rauch because Rauch himself is notoriously camera-shy and rarely discusses his work. Graef talks to collectors in New York, Vicenza, Leipzig, and Seoul who attempt to capture their fascination with Rauch’s surreal imagery in words. His art is populated by diverse figures containing sometimes clear, sometimes hidden allusions to German culture and history and can appear powerful, archaic, and is always undoubtedly distinctive. What began as the core of the film became just a supplement because Graef did succeed in earning the artist’s trust and got to observe him in his studio in Leipzig. What you see is a calm man at work who carefully creates his images. Rauch describes his work and gives insight into his world and his past in an articulate way, letting the former university professor in him come out. Statements from companions, his wife, and his gallerist make for a rich portrait of a great artist whose intelligence shows itself in his nature and his work.

Michael Meyns

Translation: Elinor Lewy

Credits

Deutschland 2016, 100 min
Genre: Documentary
Director: Nicola Graef
Author: Nicola Graef
Distributor: Weltkino
FSK: oA
Release: 02.03.2017

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Screenings

  • OV Original version
  • OmU Original with German subtitles
  • OmeU Original with English subtitles

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