From BZ/dpa
Cabaret artist Dieter Nuhr (62) is increasingly successful internationally as a painter.
“Nuhr has developed its own signature, which is seen and appreciated by museum directors and collectors,” said the renowned gallery owner Dirk Geuer on Wednesday in Düsseldorf. “Can he paint too? I’m not asked that abroad,” said Geuer.
Nuhr photographs landscapes and people on his travels. He then usually edits the images digitally, painting and drawing. “The images were essentially created digitally,” said Nuhr. He photographed the landscapes in Senegal, Egypt, the South Seas or in his home town of Ratingen in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Works by Dieter Nuhr Photo: picture alliance/dpa | David Young
A real Nuhr costs between 2,000 and 18,000 euros, revealed Geuer. Nuhr’s works are unique. He dispenses with the six-piece print run that is customary in photographic art.
Nuhr, who studied art and photography at the Folkwang School in Essen, was recently able to show his work in the Osthaus Museum in Hagen, in the Correr Museum on St. Mark’s Square in Venice and in the IFAN Museum in Dakar in Senegal.
“My works hung in Venice in a house with frescoes by Titian and Tintoretto. That makes me extremely happy. More is not possible, ”said Nuhr. From May 2nd, Nuhr’s pictures will be shown in the Maxxi, the national museum for contemporary art in Rome.
The Ludwig Museum in Koblenz (Rhineland-Palatinate) will show a solo exhibition with Nuhr pictures in October. The exhibition “Dieter Nuhr. Distant World”, which opens in Düsseldorf this Thursday, can be seen there until May 26th.