Tilo Baumgärtel (born 1972) is a German painter. He currently lives and works in

Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as wel ...

. Baumgärtel was born in

Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth larg ...

. He attended the

Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig The Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (HGB) or Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig is one of the oldest art schools in Germany, dating back to 1764. The school has four colleges specializing in fine arts, graphic design, photography and new media a ...

from 1991 to 1994. He is part of a group of young painters based in Leipzig, along with

Matthias Weischer Matthias Weischer (born 1973 in Elte, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany) is a painter living in Leipzig. Weischer is considered to be part of the New Leipzig School. Life Matthias Weischer studied painting from 1995 to 2001 and received h ...

, Christoph Ruckhaberle and others. The common trait of the group is their production of large figurative oil paintings. His paintings derive from social realist works and propaganda posters in their draughtsmanship and dramatic use of shadow. Baumgärtel has shown work in exhibitions including “7 x Malerei” at Museum der Bildenden Künste in Leipzig, ''FUTURE/Five Artists From Germany'' at Sandroni.Rey Gallery in

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, ''Painting Show'' at Wilkinson Gallery in

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and ''Life After Death'' at

Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) is a museum in a converted Arnold Print Works factory building complex located in North Adams, Massachusetts. It is one of the largest centers for contemporary visual art and performing ar ...

. He is represented by Wilkinson Gallery in London, Christian Ehrentraut in

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and Adam Biesk in

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Tilo Baumgärtel at Adam BieskTilo Baumgärtel at Christian Ehrentraut
1972 births 20th-century German painters 20th-century German male artists German male painters German contemporary artists 21st-century German painters 21st-century German male artists Living people Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig alumni {{Germany-painter-stub

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