European Naive
Art , Copenhagen 6th October – 18th November 2012
Olaf Ulbricht, Germany The naive painting of Olaf Ulbricht Olaf Ulbricht (1951) is an artist of naïve painting, as well as a carver
and wood carver from Germany. The motifs and subjects of his paintings are marked by journeys as well
as his residence in the wine-village of Vendersheim in
Rhineland-Palatinate. Olaf Ulbricht paints with acrylic colours on wood,
and by means of a repeated lacquer finish the colours receive a
brilliance, which lets the motifs glimmer as if reflected from the bottom
of a lake. The irregularity and individuality of the grain are integrated into the
painting as far as possible. Over the years Ulbricht’s pictures became
more colourful, more elaborate in detail and more static. While in his
earlier work musicians and houses might float around a church in the
autumn breeze, today his pictures tell little stories. The admirers of these naïve paintings particularly delight in the
peculiar atmosphere of the tiny and “cheerful worlds of wood and
colour”, which have so often been considered to be lost. Specific characters, such as musicians, farmer’s wives with chickens,
farmers with a horse or cow, lovers, ministers, carriers of Chinese
lanterns among other elements, are to be found again and again. Olaf Ulbricht has taken up these elements for many years, slightly
varying them step by step. Thus he created the typical and unmistakable
characters of his unique form of naïve art. EXHIBITIONS
2012 5th
Salon Européen, Madame Allart-Boquet, Bruges, Belgium "IX.
Muestra de Pintura Naif Europe, "Eboli Gallery, Madrid, Spain Centenaire
du Douanier Rousseau, Montivilliers, Réfectoire gothique de l'Abbaye,
France 7th
Biennale d'Art Naif, Andresy, France Grand
Prix International de Prestige, Inter-Arts, Lyon, France 20th
International Exhibition of Naive Art, Chivasso, Varenna, Italy 5th
World exhibition of naive art in Katovice, Poland Summer
Exhibition Gallery Naif,
Copenhagen, Denmark Exhibition
of the group pulse (s), Burggrafiat, Alzey, Germany Exhibition
in the studio of Christine Thun, St. Johann, Germany Biennial
of Naive Art in Saint-Junien, Rochechouart and Saint-Brice, France "Painted
with love," Gutman Art Gallery, Berlin International
Naive Art Festival in Jerusalem, Israel |
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