LIFE AFTER DEATH New Leipzig Paintings from the Rubell Family …

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Locate Neo Rauch’s painting, Das Neue, in this gallery. Neo Rauch, Das Neue, 2003, Oil on canvas, 82.5 x 118.25 in. Courtesy of the Rubell Family Collection …

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SELF-GUIDED TOUR
FOR MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
LIFE AFTER DEATH:
New Leipzig Paintings from the Rubell Family Collection
February 17 - June 3, 2007
FRYE ART MUSEUM
www.fryemuseum.org
Life After Death: New Leipzig Paintings from the Rubell Family Collection was co-curated by Mark Coetzee,
Director of the Rubell Family Collection, Miami, and Laura Steward Heon, Director and Curator of SITE Santa Fe.
The exhibition was coordinated for the Frye by Chief Curator Robin Held. This self-guide was created by
Education Consultant Janelle Graves and Deborah Sepulveda, Manager of Student and Teacher Programs at the
Frye Art Museum.Getting Started
Life After Death: New Leipzig Paintings from the Rubell Family Collection presents paintings and drawings by
seven artists from the Leipzig Art Academy. Together they refer to the East German tradition of socialist realist
figure painting by creating innovative artworks with mysterious narratives and surrealist overtones.
Founded in 1764 and located in the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany), the Leipzig Art
Academy is highly regarded for its tradition of figure painting, which, before the reunification of Germany in
1990, was bound to state-mandated socialist realism. The school’s required focus on figure painting
prevented experimentation with subject matter or form, but left technique free to develop. Its rigorous two-year
foundation course, which focused primarily on portrait and nude studies, produced some of East Germany’s
best figure painters.
Six of the exhibition’s artists-Tilo Baumg?tel, Tim Eitel, Martin Kobe, Christoph Ruckh?erle, David Schnell, and
Matthias Weischer-were students at the Academy in the decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The
seventh, Neo Rauch, studied there in the 1980s and remained at the school as a teaching assistant throughout
the 1990s. Following their graduation, the six younger artists remained content in Leipzig, as…