Leif Trenkler

Leif Trenkler (1960 Wiesbaden’de doğdu) Alman ressam.

Trenkler, 1984’ten 1986’ya kadar Frankfurt am Main’deki Städelschule’ye gitti. Düsseldorf Sanat Akademisi’ne bir yıllık eğitiminin ardından 1988’de geri döndü ve 1990’a kadar Thomas Bayrle ve Jörg Immendorff’la çalıştı. İtalya Alman Ulusal Akademik Vakfı’ndan, 1990’dan 1991’e kadar yabancı burs aldı.

The Cologne painter is one of the first representatives of the “New Figuration” movement of the 1990s in Germany. His paintings are steeped in the discourse of our time, but at the same time seem to be indebted to the pictorial ideas of Romanticism. In his most recent works, Leif Trenkler, who always paints in oil on wood, explores the natural space.

In Trenkler’s work, the encounter between man and landscape is integrated into harmoniously balanced compositions and depicts the longing for harmony and tranquillity in harmony with nature. In their captured and preserved momentariness, the pictures are surrounded by a touch of melancholy and melancholy, due to the knowledge of the unreliability of lasting bliss and the transience and fleetingness of the here and now through the constantly advancing time. Again and again, the contrast between organically grown nature and man-made technical construction is revealed, as can be seen in the architecture and pool landscapes of the chic glass bungalows and their well-off, appearance-conscious residents. Nature, perceived as a unity, is contrasted with artificiality in the course of its reclamation by man. Nature is cultivated in parks and avenues, domesticated and staged according to plans.

Leif Trenkler lives and works in Cologne.

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