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»Petrol«, 1999, Öl auf Leinwand, 45 × 55 cm, Foto: Herbert Boswank

Andreas Bräunsdorf

Paintings

8. Jun 29. Sep

Opening hours
Tue – Fri: 14:00 – 18:00
Sat / Sun: 10:00 – 18:00
Admission
4 € per person | 2,50 € reduced
Friday from 14:00 free admission (except public holidays)
KI generiert: Das Bild zeigt eine Person in einem häuslichen Raum mit gestreiften Tapeten, die auf einem Ofen steht. Die Person trägt ein Handtuch und ist damit beschäftigt, sich zu waschen.»Tonfilm«, 2012, Öl auf Leinwand, 81 × 60 cm, Foto: Herbert Boswank

Andreas Bräunsdorf is a »new discovery«

Cézanne, Matisse and Picasso were avowed role models, and one occasionally thinks one recognizes echoes of Dresden traditions - Otto Dix, Hans Jüchser, Peter Herrmann, A. R. Penck. These are big shoes to fill, but Andreas Bräunsdorf does not have to follow in them, he has found his own way of dealing with the figurative. His apparent realism plays in its very own way with imperfection, with the rough, the imprecise and there is always something irritating, a melting, a fraying, a small rebellion against gravity or what we generally think we know as visible reality.

What at first glance may seem awkward, even dilettantish, is a conceptual decision by the artist, a deliberate rebelliousness towards the domesticated and cultivated districts of accepted art. Bräunsdorf's figures seem untouched and unmoved by the zeitgeist, his interiors are located in suburbs and outlying districts, around which all gentrification processes undauntedly make a wide berth. By resorting to the power of the pictorial, the coarse and a less opulent palette of colors, he deals with the topos of alienation. His figures do not wear fine threads, but rather their shirts open or their sturdy upper bodies exposed; they have nothing to do with the glitter of the performance and status society. Andreas Bräunsdorf intersperses his objectivity with recurring mysterious objects and structures, allowing them to tilt slightly towards the surreal when viewed as a whole. In this way, he creates a distance – at best reflective – to the viewer, opening his inner gaze to the unspoken, the repressed, the essential, the eternal.

»If the motif is stronger than me - then it guides me and tempts me to paint«
ANDREAS BRÄUNSDORF
KI generiert: Das Bild zeigt einen minimalistischen Ausstellungsraum mit Holzboden, in dem mehrere Gemälde an den Wänden hängen. In der Mitte des Raumes steht eine einfache Bank.Ausstellungsansicht | © Leonhardi-Museum / PR

Biography
Andreas Bräunsdorf, born in Dohna in 1970, studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and was a master student of Ralf Kerbach. He lives and works at Scharfenberg Castle.

We are showing the artist's first solo exhibition in a museum; you can purchase the catalogue published for the exhibition at the museum.