The Roschlaub Gallery shows works by Elsa Gárate, Josef Fischnaller and Jochen Blume
Photo art has somewhat faded from the gallery spotlight in recent years—painting is back in vogue! However, Galerie Roschlaub, founded in 2015, continues to demonstrate the excitement of photo-based art.
And also paintings, as the three-piece show "Collective Exhibition" impressively demonstrates. The gallery's owner is Kirsten Roschlaub, herself a photographer.
And she's currently showing a three-piece exhibition featuring works by Elsa Gárate, Josef Fischnaller, and Jochen Blume, both photographers. The focus of the show is on Elsa Gárate's paintings.
The Spain-based artist depicts people: portraits that reveal that their creator also worked for many years as an artistic director in advertising and fashion production companies. They are glamorous symbols of beauty and elegance that she presents to us.
There's a certain distance in these works, which connects them to the art of Austrian photographer Josef Fischnaller. Influenced by his father, Josef, a well-known Linz painter, Josef Junior discovered his interest in art, especially painting, at an early age. After training as a photographer, Fischnaller, now 60 years old, made the most of both disciplines and is now known for his lush still lifes and portraits, reminiscent of the paintings of Old Masters, Renaissance, and Baroque periods.
They are magnificent, carefully staged works, transfers of classical principles of art history into the photographic present.
You have to look very closely, because there's really a lot to discover here! And what's also nice is that there's a lot of wit and humor in his pictures.
Works by Jochen Blume are also on display in a small section of the gallery. Born in Hanover in 1925 and deceased in Hamburg in 2018, the press photographer worked primarily for "Stern" magazine. He photographed John F. Kennedy in front of Schöneberg Town Hall in Berlin in 1963 – an image that became iconic. Blume also portrayed Marlene Dietrich, Alain Delon, and Romy Schneider.
Something truly special are his wonderfully silly portraits of Sophia Loren, which are also on display in the exhibition. "It's no use taking sharp pictures if your ideas are blurry," was the photographer's motto. A worthwhile group exhibition at the gallery near the Alster Lake!
And also paintings, as the three-piece show "Collective Exhibition" impressively demonstrates. The gallery's owner is Kirsten Roschlaub, herself a photographer.
And she's currently showing a three-piece exhibition featuring works by Elsa Gárate, Josef Fischnaller, and Jochen Blume, both photographers. The focus of the show is on Elsa Gárate's paintings.
The Spain-based artist depicts people: portraits that reveal that their creator also worked for many years as an artistic director in advertising and fashion production companies. They are glamorous symbols of beauty and elegance that she presents to us.
There's a certain distance in these works, which connects them to the art of Austrian photographer Josef Fischnaller. Influenced by his father, Josef, a well-known Linz painter, Josef Junior discovered his interest in art, especially painting, at an early age. After training as a photographer, Fischnaller, now 60 years old, made the most of both disciplines and is now known for his lush still lifes and portraits, reminiscent of the paintings of Old Masters, Renaissance, and Baroque periods.
They are magnificent, carefully staged works, transfers of classical principles of art history into the photographic present.
You have to look very closely, because there's really a lot to discover here! And what's also nice is that there's a lot of wit and humor in his pictures.
Works by Jochen Blume are also on display in a small section of the gallery. Born in Hanover in 1925 and deceased in Hamburg in 2018, the press photographer worked primarily for "Stern" magazine. He photographed John F. Kennedy in front of Schöneberg Town Hall in Berlin in 1963 – an image that became iconic. Blume also portrayed Marlene Dietrich, Alain Delon, and Romy Schneider.
Something truly special are his wonderfully silly portraits of Sophia Loren, which are also on display in the exhibition. "It's no use taking sharp pictures if your ideas are blurry," was the photographer's motto. A worthwhile group exhibition at the gallery near the Alster Lake!