Markus Lüpertz

Private Collection, Berlin

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Ein Haus unter Bäumen (A house under trees) impressively represents the unparalleled style of the artist Markus Lüpertz with its powerful intensity of colour. Created in 1979, the work is characterised by Lüpertz's stylistic principles, which can be identified by a symbiosis of figuration and abstraction. His unmistakable sense of compositional balance and the differentiation of forms and colours is also evident in this work.

The abstract, yet figurative, is an integral part of Lüpertz's oeuvre during this period and testifies to his very individual pictorial language. Although various forms can be recognised as familiar objects, further contours remain open to interpretation and subjective associations. Lüpertz's expressive works, especially Ein Haus unter Bäumen (A house under trees), are to be understood as geometric-abstract compositions, which particularly in this work shine through their lively play of colours and create compositional balance.