Neo Rauch and from the relationship between artists to gallery owners and art auctions

Art auctions are currently running like crazy, because that our money is not in good hands with the banks at the moment, more and more people believe. Surprisingly, democratic outrage over this fact is limited, so it can take a long time before the banks change their behavior.

Until the financial world is forced to let the usual commercial care in the administration of the funds entrusted to it again, it will probably remain that the investment in real assets offers itself as a serious alternative. For many people, a work of art represents a very good real value for a system, and art of this kind is offered on art auctions .

This is not the only reason: some people have earned a lot of money with this financial world that has become out of joint and now want to buy very specific, trendy works of art, and some art can only be bought on art auctions.

For example, a work of art by Neo Rauch , a currently extremely trendy artist, whose works can occasionally be purchased at auctions. When it comes to art by Neo Rauch, the business around the art auctions also shows a flip side interesting for investors:

A work by Neo Rauch is on an auction for 800,000 euros, while the same work would have cost only 300,000 euros when buying through the gallery owner. This in turn reveals the value of a traditional business relationship for the buyer of art.

A business relationship that is threatening to be abolished art auctions artists and gallery owners , art of creating and art, both connected in a fertile partnership.

Does an artist need such an outdoor representative? An artist who just wants to work in peace or who has no hands for sales is definitely well advised with such a partner.

It is also very often the gallery owner who promotes the artist in his beginnings, grants financial support and who knows and can inspire completely different people than the young artist.

Neo Rauch is definitely one of the artists who just want to work in peace, and he was certainly able to use a partner with knowledge in art sales, as a look at his biography suggests:

Neo Rauch was born in Leipzig in April 1960 and grew up with his grandparents because his parents died in an accident shortly after his birth. After graduating from high school, he went to the Leipzig University of Graphics and Book Art to study painting and graphics.

At this training facility, which belongs to the oldest state art universities in Germany, he was able to attract the attention of exceptional teachers: from 1981 to 1986 he learned from the well -known painter Arno Rink, then professor and head of the specialist class for painting and graphics, later also Rector of the university.

deserves the so -called “Leipzig School”

Rauch initially remained loyal to the domestic university: from 1993 to 1998 he worked as an assistant for the Leipzig University. During this time, he finally developed into one of the most important representatives of the Leipzig School through collaboration with Rink and Heisig. This school wanted to keep part of the just broken down in the GDR just collapsed , but was initially able to score little in the west - there was only about concept art and abstract painting .

The art market of the world developed over time in Rauchs: Until the turn of the millennium, the international art market was completely under the spell of the "Young British Artists" , around Damien Hirst (see the article to him) and to promote the mighty and mighty -emphasized Charles Saatchi.

Towards the end of the 1990s, the euphoria around the "Young British Artists" urgently needed a breather, the curiosity was looking for new topics and found wonderfully contraryly contrary artifications in a newly curling society. The Leipzig School was the least to do with the ideas of the "Young British Artists", which made it the logical goal and the center of the now emerging fashion trend in the international art market.

Not bad for Neo Rauch, he was invited to numerous exhibitions in the most renowned galleries in the USA from 1999 and has developed into a star on the international art market in the following decade.

Until then, Rauch had not received so much attention in his homeland, and he no longer wants to see his pictures created before the turn.

It was only with the possibility of unaffected art exercise he developed his own style, at the end of the 1990s he also received some awards in Germany, in 1992 a sponsorship award in Nuremberg and the art prize of the Leipziger Volkszeitung (1997, combined with a solo exhibition in the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig) and initial exhibitions (“outskirts”, gallery for contemporary art Leipzig, 2000).

But the great fame in the home country only came after the abroad had discovered the artist that he was exhibited in the Vienna Albertina and New York Moma before the exhibitions in Germany multiplied.

For the German observer who does not yet know Neo Rauch, this abuse at home is often more understandable when he looks at smoke art: even his newer works, sometimes almost painfully remind of the pompous monumental works of socialist realism, with all of their attached glorification of the world of workers.

A viewer's impartial viewer in this regard is easier to enjoy the lush colors and plastic figures, he will discover elements from comic and pop art, and probably also a good dash of surrealism. Rauch is also seen as a “magical realist” , whose pictures seem wonderfully, suggestive and timeless, and you will probably be discovering something new on a picture of Neo Rauch for years.

By the way, the “magical” artist Rauch is represented by two gallery owners: in Germany by Gerd Harry Lybke , the owner of the Gallery Eigen + Art, Leipzig and Berlin, and in New York by David Zwirner , the son of the German gallery owner Rudolf Zwirner, both gallery owners with a lot of personal commitment and business skill.

Both gallery owners are also among the philanthropes in the art area, and against this background it is quite easy to understand why Lybke has to register for a picture of Neo Rauch, but it also gets it for a realistic price.

In return, the gallery owner takes care that Neo Rauch is not harassed by media hype, but keeps his freedom to keep in the old cotton mill, which he and his wife Rosa Loy have selected as a suitable place for their artistic work to be able to think of new works and create new works.

Rauch is generally not just about selling : 2005 to 2009 he taught as a professor at his old Leipzig university and worked for his students far beyond the professors' obligations. You can view beautiful smoke works completely free of charge in Naumburg, where he designed the glass windows in the Elisabeth chapel.

And the city of Aschersleben (where he grew up with his grandparents) he has just given his entire graphic work, which is supervised by a foundation that he leads together with the city. This work has been permanently accessible to the public in the Bildungszentrum Expert Army Park in Aschersleben since June 2012, so they ultimately do not need a gallery owner (Gerd Harry Lybke is involved in the foundation) nor an art auction to look at this artist that belongs to the most important painters of his time.

You could still draw a gratifying knowledge from the price range shown above when selling Neo Rauchs: It is worth dealing with art, and also financially. Ideal anyway, so it's so much fun, e.g. B. on Kunstplaza .de to go looking for a new, exciting artist.

If you want to find out more about this artist or maybe even want to buy one of his works that are being offered for sale in international galleries or was auctioned at auctions, then it is best to visit the following website: Artnet - further information & works of art by Neo Rauch .