Reinhard Voigt

After being trained as a ceramist, Voigt studied from 1965 to 1971 with Hans Thiemann, David Hockney and Gotthard Graubner, among others, at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg.

Voigt was also featured in a solo presentation in the now legendary exhibition series "14 x 14" at the Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (1968-1973) alongside Palermo, Rainer Ruthenbeck, Georg Baselitz, Gerhard Richter and others of the then emerging generation of German painters.

Voigt has always been faithful to the grid he developed in the academy as a basis and site for exploring the categories of form, abstraction, figuration, anonymity, ductus, color tonality, and ultimately beauty and legibility.

The formal stringency of his approach has consequently led to describing his work as a negotiating space of the art-historically significant grid.

[3][4] Only recently has a reassessment taken place that also situates Voigt's lifelong work as a commentary on post-1945 German painting.

Reinhard Voigt: Red Hook, 2018. Acrylic on canvas, 185 x 140 cm, courtesy the artist.