

askART lists Peter Keil in 0 of its research Essays. Galleries and art dealers listing works of art by Peter Keil as either "Wanted" or "For Sale" There are 0Īrtworks for sale on our website by galleries and art dealers askART's database currently holds 812 auction lots for Peter Keil (of whichĥ29 auction records sold and 6 are upcoming at auction.)Īrtist artworks for sale and wanted. The expressiveness of the vivid color opened a way to temporarily escape from the dullness and depression of everyday life in post-war Germany as Peter made his first attempts at visual There he admired the works of the Expressionists, Picasso in particular. Ten-year-old Peter Robert Keil fascinated by the books he found in the art section of the local library. There the young Keil attended school with singer and actress Conny Froboess and film star Horst Buchholz. There he grew up in the neighborhood of grey blocks of houses, the typical backyards and the trees of the park nearby.


After the death of his father on the Eastern Front, mother and son set out to make their way through the chaos of battered Germany to West Berlin. His father was killed in the early years of World War II. Peter Robert Keil was born in August 1942 in Züllichau I Pommern (now Poland). In the past 50 years, he has created numerous large- and small scale paintings in oil and mixed media on canvas but also some sculptures in wood and steel and a great number of majolicas.The following information was submitted in August of 2006 by G. His emotional way of painting is mainly driven by a desire for freedom from social constraints and conventions. Keil prefers to paint human figures, portraits, big city scenes, landscapes and still life images of flowers.

In his paintings, the color is applied with quick brushstrokes and occasionally with impasto techniques and the images are additionally abstracted by the use of Graffiti elements. Since then, the use of intensive to lurid colors and the absence of realistic representation have become characteristic of his painting style. Keil increasingly parted with his realistic approach and developed a new, much more spontaneous and dynamic painting style which he developed further during his years in London and finally during his time as one of the “Berliner Neue Wilden” at the beginning of the 80’s. However, his style changed visibly at the beginning of the 60’s when he lived in Paris for a while and emerged in the city’s nightlife. In the works from his early Berlin years, he mainly focused on typical big city settings and characters on the fringes of society. In the beginnings of his artistic career, Peter Keil’s style was influenced by German expressionism. Peter Robert Keil (born August 6, 1942) from Zullichau, Brandenburg, is a German painter and sculptor. This sale will only feature art by Peter Kiel. Never seen by public eyes until now, we are excited to invite you to join us July 15th 2020. The year was 2002 when Michael Hill met with artist Peter Keil and acquired a massive collection of art.
