Tatowiert II (brown), 1984

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.