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// Rosette by Thomas Lange is a powerful oil painting from 1984 that combines surreal and expressive elements to create a darkly atmospheric composition. Dominated by shades of deep blue, the artwork features a prominent skull-like figure at the center, surrounded by fragmented and abstract shapes that evoke a sense of chaos and introspection. The skeletal form, paired with swirling, almost ghostly figures, suggests themes of mortality, fear, and the subconscious. Lange’s use of intense colors and distorted forms reflects an exploration of existential themes, inviting the viewer into a haunting visual meditation on life, death, and the human psyche.

Thomas Lange (Germany, 1957) is a neo-expressionist painter known for merging abstraction and figuration. A key figure in the 'Neue Wilde' movement in 1980s West Berlin, his works are influenced by Italian Renaissance art and explore themes of struggle and mortality. Lange divides his time between Berlin and Italy.

Thomas Lange

Rosette, 1984

Name: Rosette, 1984
SKU: 7557
Price: 4000.00 EUR
Availability: InStock

Form

Painting

PaintingPainting is the process of applying media to a surface, using a tool such as a brush. The term refers to both the action and the resulting object. Artists use many tools to paint, such as brushes, airbrushes, palette knives, sponges or fingers and hands.

Medium

Oil on canvas

Oil on canvasOil paint is a slow-drying type of paint made from pigment particles suspended in a drying oil, typically linseed oil. The viscosity of the paint can be adjusted by adding a solvent like turpentine, and varnish can be added to increase the glossiness of the dried paint film. Oil painting has been used since the 12th century in Europe, initially for decoration, but it was not widely adopted as a primary painting medium until the 15th century.

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Whoever does not forget the past looks to the future.
- Thomas Lange

Thomas Lange is a neo-expressionist painter whose works are “poised between abstraction and figuration”. Berlin-born Lange has been influenced by his youthful participation in the Neue Wilde (Young Wild) unconventional underground art movement in West Berlin during the late 1970s and early 1980s. His work typically avoids, however, strictly avant-garde limits or requirements, and reflects the Italian visual culture of artists such as Lippi, Masolino, and Masaccio. Lange often works concurrently with his own personal experiences, art history, and current events. His painting process includes research, investigating the meaning of images, and the physical and mental acts of painting. He has created family portraits to use as symbolic figures in idiosyncratic dreamscapes. He has used musical notation and instruments as subject matter in the cubism and vivid, clear colors of Music of Motivation (acrylic on linen canvas). Lange’s works range from large installations in mixed media filling expansive spaces. Lange lives and works in Berlin and Italy.

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Thomas Lange

Rosette, 1984

120 x 150 cm

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