Kim Reuter

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Kim Reuter (born November 27, 1971 in Thurrock Orsett / Essex , England as Kim Holler ) is a German painter .

Life

Kim Reuter grew up in Shenfield (Essex) and in Cologne. From 1990 to 1993 she studied musicology, art history and philosophy at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . In 1993 she moved to the Düsseldorf Art Academy to study art , where she graduated in 1999 as a master student of Alfonso Hüppi . In 2003 she received a working grant from the Art Fund Foundation . After spending several years in Leipzig, she lives and works again in Cologne and in Leudersdorf in the Eifel.

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Reuter's preferred technique is painting with egg tempera on canvas. The self-mixed colors are characterized by the fact that they appear very fine, almost sensitive and delicate even with strong colors, but are extremely durable. Early motifs were natural structures such as waves, flowers or intertwined tendrils, which were spread out over large canvases like identical, but irregular ornaments . Later, portraits and landscapes added. The landscape images include water and low mountain ranges, as it were in a long shot , but also places such as streams, clearings or thickets that are painted in large sections. They are only shown in natural daylight and with typical characteristics of the seasons. What is clear is the creation of a mood that is regulated by the incidence of light and color. "Silence, intimacy and the virtuoso play with light" are characteristic of her pictures. The bizarre or pathetic is avoided , and an almost objective poetry of the inconspicuous and everyday is preferred. This also applies to inserted depictions of people, often children or a family. Their being-in-nature goes beyond experiencing this nature. Rather, the people stand in a symbolic , almost allegorical relationship to their surroundings. The fact that people appear individually or in small, family groups emphasizes on the one hand their individuality and on the other hand the recognizable generality.

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  1. ↑ Christoph Tannert: "Country enjoyment in color", in: Kim Reuter . Jovis Verlag, Berlin 2012, p. 32 .
  2. ^ Eckhard Hollmann: "Kim Reuter in conversation with Eckhard Hollmann", in: Kim Reuter . Jovis, Berlin 2012, p. 6 .
personal data
SURNAME Reuter, Kim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Holler, Kim (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Thurrock Orsett, Essex , England