Life After Death... is a semi-tongue-in-cheek reference to painting's frequently, erroneously reported "demise" and the fact that it is always somehow miraculously "resurrected" in the media as a discipline. In no one area has painting's latest healthy phase been more widely celebrated than it has with the New Leipzig School, a loosely affiliated group of young German painters who all trained at Leipzig's rigorous Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (Academy of Visual Arts).
During a 2003 trip to Leipzig, Miami-based Donald and Mera Rubell became aware of the works and also became the New Leipzig School's first (and still biggest) collectors. Part of the large Rubell Family Collection is currently on loan and traveling in the Life After Death... exhibition. We caught up with it at Seattle's Frye Art Museum, the fifth venue of six, and offer an enticing selection of the works on view to you here in this special exhibition image gallery.
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- Neo Rauch (German, b. 1960). Das Neue (The New), 2003.Photograph provided by the Rubell Family Collection; Used with permission of the Frye Art Museum
- Neo Rauch (German, b. 1960). Demos (Demonstrations), 2004.Photograph provided by the Rubell Family Collection; Used with permission of the Frye Art Museum
- Theater, 2003Photograph provided by the Rubell Family Collection; Used with permission of the Frye Art Museum
- David Schnell (German, b. 1971). Bretter (Planks), 2005.Photograph provided by the Rubell Family Collection; Used with permission of the Frye Art Museum
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