Matthias Kanter

Matthias Kanter (born December 4, 1968 in Dessau ) is a contemporary German painter .

Life

Kanter spent a large part of his youth in Schwerin ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). After completing an apprenticeship as a bricklayer with a high school diploma, he studied painting at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (HfBK Dresden) with Max Uhlig and Ralf Kerbach . Matthias Kanter lives in Friedrichshagen near Wismar .

Works

Kanter's works are characterized by their proximity to abstraction . His works are primarily created in series. Based on sensual and intuitive experiences, Kanter's works maintain a balance between pictorial autonomy and associative reference to an extra-pictorial reality. Kanter condenses the experience of concrete places in reduced motif fragments into a surface-related composition structure. Color research, a struggle for color, becomes the content of the picture. Only the color effect gives the individual image its individuality. Kanter often receives inspiration for his work from places or refers, for example, to the content of Italian painting, primarily from the Renaissance period. Series of images on the landscape or on works by Fra Angelico arouse associations with the colourfulness of the places or the art historical epoch.

literature

• Ralf Weingart: Matthias Kanter. In: Eckhart Gillen (ed.): Sea, beach and sky as a destination of longing and a place of refuge for artists since Edvard Munch. Hinstorff, Rostock 2005, ISBN 3-356-01111-1 , pp. 124-127 (exhibition catalog).
• Kunstverein Lingen (ed.): Matthias Kanter. (Lingen Art Prize). Buxus-Verlag, Handrup 2000, ISBN 3-9807094-3-4 (exhibition catalog) with texts by Harald Kunde and Heiner Schepers.

Web links

• Exhibition review
• biography