Norbert Wagenbrett

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Norbert Wagenbrett prefers to call his paintings rather images than portraits, because they cross the margins of common portraiture and reflect more than visible features. For Wagenbrett the painting does not mean a reproduction of a person in another kind of material, it becomes another being - “the other self”, which merges during the process of creation with his emotions, fantasy, creativity and his specific technique and owns thus a part of him. The artist puts this “other self” in an own surrounding by not only focusing the face and the chest of a person, but also expanding the image space to the knees and sometimes even to the whole body. In this way he can also exhibit the environment of the shown persons, can put it in an ambiance and can allocate attributes to them, which are references of their uniqueness and particularity.
Norbert Wagenbrett lives and works in Leipzig.

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Technique: oil on canvas, 150 x 100 cm

Upper row (from left to right):  “The Game” (Das Spiel) 1998), In the Bathroom (Im Bad) 1998, “In the City” (In der Stadt) 2000, In the Undergroung (In der Straßenbahn) 2001

Lower row (from left to right): ”Couple with Tulip” (Paar mit Tulpe) 2002, “In the Cinestar” (Im Cinestar) 2006, “Young Woman with Pearl Curtain” (Junge Frau mit Perlenvorhang) 2009, “Woman with Angel’s Trumpet” (Frau mit Engelstrompeten) 2009

Time Channel 1-4 (Zeitfurche 1-4), 1992, lithograph, 65,5 x 50 cm

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