All That Jazz, 2004 oil on canvas, 50 x 65 cm	Nude Woman with Seagull, 2005, oil on canvas, 70 x 160 cm	The Banquet, 2006 (detail) oil on canvas, 85 x 130 cm
Boxing, 2005 oil on canvas, 60 x 90 cm	Les cantatrices, 2006 oil on canvas, 60 x 60 cm	Flying Cook, 2006
On the Beach, 2005 oil on canvas, 100 x 130 cm	Dancers, 2006 oil on canvas, 70 x 45 cm	Tanzmusik, 2006 oil on canvas, 100 x 70 cm
Torso, 2004 oil on canvas, 60 x 45 cm

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KLAUS GROPPER - biography

Born in Meyenburg / Germany, I have been living in Berlin for some time now. After quitting my job as a teacher, I took to painting in 1999 and had my first exhibition last year

Here are some of my views on art and painting:
I do think that, after all, painting will be the art medium of the future, because it offers  far  more opportunity than all concept art, video installations or multi-media objects together. I do not deny that there have been some achievements in the afore-mentioned  catogories over the last decades. But on the whole I would think that they are now rather on the decline, whereas New Painting has been  gaining ground lately. I plead for more intolerance in matters of art as the sixties permissiveness  did not advance the notion of art but rather helped to abolish it.

To avoid any misgivings I can but say that I neither try to imitate old masters nor choose  topics from times other than the present or have any nostalgic leaning. I am trying to find the most appropriate way of expressing myself, which stylistically so far has led to a kind of post-modern realism.

You can find more about my views on art in my manifesto 'Art and Reality' or on my website www.diewahrheitindermalerei.de/

My e-mail address: webmaster@klaus-gropper.de