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Peter Robert Keil (born 6 August 1942 in Züllichau, Brandenburg) is a German painter and sculptor.




Life


Peter Robert Keil was born to an artist blacksmith father whom he lost very early in his childhood during World War II. During the end phase of the war, Keil's mother, also an artistically talented woman, took her son and struggled her way to West Berlin where they settled. This is where Peter Robert Keil grew up in the working-class neighbourhood of Berlin-Wedding and where he discovered his interest in painting—particularly in expressionistic artists and in Pablo Picasso's work. From 1954 on, the East Berlin-based painter Otto Nagel became his mentor and taught him first craft skills and painting techniques. In 1954, he began his traineeship as an artist metalworker and between 1959 and 1961, he studied at the University of Arts in Berlin. When the Berlin Wall was built, he lost contact with his mentor Otto Nagel and from the early 60s on, Keil started to spend more and more time abroad.
During his studies at the University of Arts in Berlin, he came in contact with numerous other artists who later became influential artists of their generation, like for example Georg Baselitz, Eugen Schönebeck, Markus Lüpertz and Joachim Schmettau. During his time in Mallorca, he also met with Joan Miró in his studio several times. From the early 60s on, Keil established studios in Paris, London, Berlin and in the US. Today he mainly lives and works in Zimmerau (Bavaria, Germany), Berlin and Los Angeles.




Techniques and works


In the beginnings of his artistic career, Peter Keil's style was influenced by German expressionism. In the works from his early Berlin years, he mainly focused on typical big city settings and characters on the fringes of society.
However, his style changed visibly at the beginning of the 60s when he lived in Paris for a while and emerged in the city's nightlife. 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 80s. Since then, the use of intensive to lurid colours and the absence of realistic representation have become characteristic of his painting style. In his paintings, the colour is applied with quick brushstrokes and occasionally with impasto techniques and the images are additionally abstracted by the use of Graffiti elements. Keil prefers to paint human figures, portraits, big city scenes, landscapes and still life images of flowers. His emotional way of painting is mainly driven by a desire for freedom from social constraints and conventions.
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.




Exhibitions


1962: First solo exhibition at the Art Gallery, London
1964: Galerie Rotebro, Sweden
1965: Great Berlin Art Exhibition
1966: Great Berlin Art Exhibition
1980: Dr. Friedmann Gallery, Israel
1985: Wewerka Gallery, Berlin
1986–1990: Free Art Exhibition, Berlin, Exhibition Hall, Berlin
1993: Carousel Gallery, Dania, Florida, USA
1998: Aventura Art Gallery, Aventura, Florida, USA
1999: Höckner Gallery, Salzburg, Austria
2000: Exhibitions Paris, Amsterdam, London
2001–2005: Intercontinental Hotel Berlin
2002: International Art Fair, Frankfurt
2003: The Sixties Peter Robert Keil, Kunstsinn Gallery, Nuremberg
2005: Boxsler Gallery, Lichtenfels
2006: Public Library, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
2007: Villa Meixner, collection of the KulturForum Europa, Brühl/Baden
2007: Kessler Corporation, Orlando Florida, Savannah, Georgia, USA
2008: The Hurn Museum, Savannah, USA
2010: Keil-Collection Heidelberg, Long Night of the Museums, Heidelberg
2010: Edna Hibel Fine Art Gallery, West Palm Beach, Florida
2011: Keil-Collection Heidelberg, Long Night of the Museums, Heidelberg
2011: Edinburgh International Art Festival. Scotland. Presented by Colin Fleming (Rivertown Gallery).
2012: Retrospective "Leben im Farbrausch" (A Life in Colours), Castle Schwetzingen, Orangery
2012: "Teufelswerk" (Devil's Work), State Majolica Manufacture Karlsruhe
2013: Aufbruch – Jüngste Werke aus der Heidelberger Phase (A new era – Most recent works from the Heidelberg phase), Alte Feuerwache Heidelberg
2014: Recent works, Berlin, Temporäre Galerie Potsdamer Straße
2014: New Keil works, Keil Collection Heidelberg, Heidelberg
2014 / 2015: Peter Robert Keil in the Heidelberg city hall, City Hall Heidelberg
2015: "Verleden, heden, toekomst", Waaggebouw Arnheim
2015: Peter Robert Keil in the Roman Cellar, Roman Cellar Heidelberg
2015: Peter Robert Keil in Alten Hallenbad, Altes Hallenbad Heidelberg
2015: "P.R. Keil – der neueste Brand", Staatliche Majolika Manufaktur Karlsruhe
2015: Exhibition in the Museumszimmer at Wolfsbrunnen, Wolfsbrunnen Heidelberg
2016: art Karlsruhe 2016, Karlsruhe
2016: ART.FAIR, Köln
2016: Affordable Art Fair 2016, Hamburg
2016: Peter Robert Keil in the Galerie P13, Heidelberg
2017: art Karlsruhe 2017 - one artist show, Karlsruhe
2017: Solo exhibition, New Jersey, USA
2017: Roter Kunstsalon, Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden
2017: Affordable Art Fair 2017, Hamburg
2017: Exhibition at the Studio in Banyalbufar, Mallorca
2017: Solo show "Leben im Farbrausch 2", Castle Heidelberg
2018: art Karlsruhe 2018 - one artist show, Karlsruhe
2018 Affordable Art Fair Hamburg / Affordable Art Fair Brüssel
2019 art Karlsruhe, Galerie P 13
2019 Affordable Art Fair Hamburg / Affordable Art Fair Brüssel
2021 Artist-in-residence im Xylon Museum Schwetzingen
2022 Artist-in-residence Xylon Museum Schwetzingen
2022 Exhibition at the Studio in Xylon Museum Schwetzingen
2022 "ICoulor - a painter says I" - Exhibition in the Heidelberg Castle.




Literature


Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, Volume 79, De Gruyter Verlag, Berlin 2012
Art Profil – Zeitschrift für aktuelle Kunst, Volume 2, 13. Jahrgang 2007
Art Profil – Zeitschrift für aktuelle Kunst, Volume-No. 90-2011
Art Profil – Zeitschrift für aktuelle Kunst, Volume-No. 93-2012
Art Profil – Zeitschrift für aktuelle Kunst, Volume-No. 96-2013
Art Profil – Zeitschrift für aktuelle Kunst Heft Nr. 105-2014 20. Jahrgang
Edition Majolika – Schriftenreihe der Majolika-Stiftung für Kunst- und Kulturförderung Karlsruhe, Band 3
Dietmar Eisold (pub.): Lexikon Künstler der DDR Verlag neues Leben Berlin, 2010, ISBN 978-3-355-01761-9
Aufbruch - Die Keil Collection Heidelberg. Illustrierte Chronik Herbst 2012-2015, Heidelberg 2017, ISBN 978-1-36-421381-7
Lust und Leidenschaft/Tod und Teufel. Ein Ausstellungskonzept, Edition Art Flow Berlin, 2011, ISBN 978-3-938457-11-5
Hartmut Pätzke: Register „Ausgebürgert“, in: Hannelore Offner and Klaus Schroeder: Eingegrenzt – Ausgegrenzt. Bildende Kunst und Parteiherrschaft in der DDR 1961–1989, Akademie Verlag GmbH Berlin, 2000, ISBN 3-05-003348-7
Valerie Sottile, Audrey E. Dillon und Michael Sottile: Peter Keil: Neo-Expressionist Artist, in: The Dial. A Philosophic Art Journal, Volume LXXXV, Number 2, Winter 2008
Peter Robert Keil Fünfundsiebzig, Herausgeber: Keil Collection Heidelberg, Heidelberg 2017, ISBN 978-3-00-057568-6
Peter Robert Keil Achtzig, Herausgeber: Keil Collection Heidelberg, Heidelberg 2022, ISBN 978-3-00-057568-6
Werksverzeichnis. Catalogue Raisonné - Peter Robert Keil. Verzeichnis zertifizierter Gemälde, September 2017, Ed., Keil Collection Heidelberg.




References






External links


http://www.Keil-Collection-Heidelberg.de/
https://peterkeilofficial.com/

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