Description
Stefan Szczesny: *1951, München
Untitled
Execution: Acrylic on paper
Date: 2003
Dimensions: 36 x 51 cm without frame, 68 x 82 cm framed
Signature: signed upper right, dated
Provenance: Original work from private collection
Stefan Szczesny is a German painter, sculptor and photographer who became internationally known in the 1980s as a representative and protagonist of the “Neue Wilde”. Szczesny lives and works in Saint-Tropez.
Initially, Szczesny tended towards abstract painting. In 1980, his turn to figurative painting was strengthened by a guest residency at the Villa Romana in Florence. After graduating from the Munich Art Academy, Szczesny was a member of the group “Die Neuen Wilden” (The New Wild Ones) in Cologne, lived and worked for years in New York and is now one of the most important contemporary artists in Europe. The light, the colours and the warmth brought him to the South of France in 2001 where he created his paradise of art and life in Saint Tropez. Szczesny’s artworks are imbued with the lightness and serenity of the Mediterranean. Oriented towards Henri Matisse, Jean Cocteau, Marc Chagall, Pierre Bonnard and Pablo Picasso, he concentrates on classical themes such as nudes, still lifes, nature and landscape: sailing ships, women, palm trees, the sea, the sun, flowers and fruits dominate his motifs in bright colours.
Szczesny has worked almost all over the world in the last four decades, his works are in international private collections and in the holdings of numerous museums.
