SCHADE, TITUS
1984 Leipzig
Title: "Der Stausee"/"Das kleine Querregal".
Subtitle: 2-part.
Date: 2009/10.
Each oil and acrylic on canvas. 200 x 149,5cm ("Stausee") 50 x 150cm ("Querregal").
Installation size: ca. 260 x 150cm. Notation: Each titled, signed and dated verso on the canvas overlap at the top: "Der Stausee" Titus Schade 2009 resp. "Das kleine Querregal" Titus Schade 2010.
Provenance:
- Galerie Leuenroth, Frankfurt a.M.
- Private collection North Germany (acquired from the previous in 2010)
- Skilful combination of Old Master technique and modern vision
- The work brings together two highly different series of paintings by the artist to create a comprehensive oeuvre with a strong three-dimensional presence
- Enormous tension between the illusion of painting and constructed order.