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Ulrich Lamsfuss (b. 1971)
Oil painting after a photograph by Stefan Jellheden
signed and dated 'Lamsfuß 2004' (lower right); signed, titled, inscribed and dated '8. 12. 04 Stefan Jellheden Louis Vuitton Schuht Lamsfuss' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
4714 x 3738in. (120 x 95cm.)
Painted in 2004
Provenance
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2005.
Literature
The Saatchi Gallery & M. Holborn, Germania, London 2008, p. 148 (illustrated in colour, p. 149).
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A former student of Georg Baselitz at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, German painter Ulrich Lamsfuss creates immaculate trompe l’oeil reproductions of photographs culled from archives, magazines and mass media. Extending the legacy of photorealist artists such as Gerhard Richter and Malcolm Morley, his work reflects a society flooded with images, appropriating sources including sales catalogues, art history, the internet, fashion and travel publications, National Geographic and cinema. Painted in 2004, the present work reproduces an advertisement created by the Danish photographer Stefan Jellheden for Louis Vuitton, which was based on a famous 1963 news image of a Vietnamese monk on fire. Blurring the boundaries between painting and photography, Lamsfuss builds his works with painstaking accuracy, plotting his subjects across pencil grids over periods of several weeks. Awarded the Frissiras Museum Contemporary European Painting Award in 2005, he has exhibited throughout Europe and America, featuring in shows at the Kunsthalle Hamburg, the Sprengel Museum, Hannover and the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin.

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