Eberhard Havekost (1967 – 5 July 2019) was a contemporary German

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ...

based in Berlin and

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, who exhibited internationally.

Biography

Born in

, Havekost was the son of a sculptor and a taxidermist.Claire Selvin (July 9, 2019)
Eberhard Havekost, Painter of Unsettling Scenes of Modernity, Dies at 51
''

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''. He completed an internship as a

stonemason Stonemasonry or stonecraft is the creation of buildings, structures, and sculpture using stone as the primary material. It is one of the oldest activities and professions in human history. Many of the long-lasting, ancient shelters, temples, ...

in 1985. In 1989, he fled to the West via

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and lived in

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. He studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Dresden from 1991 to 1996, where he became a master student under Professor Ralf Kerbach in 1997. In 1999 he was awarded the

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grant. He lived in Berlin, and was a professor at the

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Work

Havekost was one of a new generation of painters who used a digitalized, multimedial visual language in their work.Eberhard Havekost: Harmony 2. Paintings 1997 - 2005, 10 March - 28 May 2006

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, Amsterdam. Working from photographic sources – shots from TV and video, images culled from magazines and catalogues and his own photographs – he selected subjects ranging from anonymous buildings, trains and trailers, and modified them to make inkjet prints as the departure point for his paintings. Among the subjects which regularly recur are nature, portraits or figures, architectural interiors and exteriors, and means of transportation such as caravans, aeroplanes and automobiles. He often painted series of repetitive images to replicate the serial change of visual effect in nature. The theme of a 2007 25-part series of paintings is ''zensur'' or censorship, and the artist applies the concept of blocking or erasing something thematically or formally. ''Retina'' is a 2010 series of six oil paintings that deal with the optical perception of the world of objects and their abstraction. In 2005, art critic

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described Havekost in the ''

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'' as "a promising painter so deeply indebted to Richter's version of abbreviated Photorealism that it appears he has not yet come into his own". In ''

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'',

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wrote that "the blunt dispatch and immediacy of Mr. Havekost's surfaces, while suitably laconic, run counter to the randomness and remove of the images, providing a necessary disconcerting tension."

(September 4, 1998)
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''The New York Times''.

Collection

Works by Havekost are found in the stock of the

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, the

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as well as in the Marx Collection, the Rubell Family Collection, the Frieder Burda Collection, and the

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. He is represented by Anton Kern in New York and Galerie Gebr. Lehmann in Dresden and Berlin. He had solo exhibitions at the

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in Frankfurt,

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, and the

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Art market

Havekost is represented by Contemporary Fine Arts in Berlin, Anton Kern Gallery in New York, Roberts Projects in Los Angeles, and

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in London, among many other international venues.

Solo exhibitions

* 2008 ''Eberhard Havekost'', FRAC Auvergne * 2008 ''Zensur 2'', Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden/Berlin * 2007 ''Zensur'', Anton Kern Gallery, New York * 2007 ''Background'',

, London * 2006 ''Paintings from the Rubell Family Collection'', American University Museum,

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, Washington DC * 2006 ''Harmony 2'',

* 2006 ''backstage'', Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden * 2005 ''Sonnenschutz'', Roberts & Tilton,

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* 2004 ''Brandung'', Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden * 2004 ''Graphik 1999-2004'', Kupferstich-Kabinett Dresden * 2004 ''Marvel'', Anton Kern Gallery, New York * 2003 Centre d`art contemporain Georges Pompidou, Cajarc * 2003 ''dynamic UND'', Inside the White Cube, London * 2003 ''Beauty walks a razors edge'', Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden * 2003 ''Square'', Anton Kern Gallery, New York * 2001 ''DRIVER'', Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Serralves, Porto * 2001 ''Dimmer'', Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden * 2001 ''Pressure-Pressure'', Anton Kern Gallery, New York * 2000 ''Kontakt'', Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden * 1999 ''Statements'',

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, Basel * 1998 ''ZOOM'', Anton Kern Gallery, New York * 1998 ''Fenster-Fenster'',

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* 1997 ''Frieren'', Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden

References

External links

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Eberhard Havekost
Anton Kern Gallery
Roberts Projects / Eberhard Havekost
Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, CA

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