Bold and colorful paintings that capture the essence of life.
Discover Peter Keil
Bold and colorful paintings that capture the essence of life.
A B O U T
Meet the Artist
Peter Robert Keil was born in 1942 to two artistically talented parents. After the loss of his father at a very young age, he and his mother migrated to West Berlin. He grew up in the working-class Berlin-Wedding District when at the age of ten, he discovered his passion for painting. He was specifically interested in the Expressionistic works of artists like Pablo Picasso. As his studies progressed from the University of Arts in Berlin to Paris, London, and Spain, he developed relationships with influential artists of his generation like Rainer Fetting and Salomé, Georg Baselitz, Eugen Schönebeck, Markus Lüpertz and Joachim Schmettau, Otto Nagel, and also Joan Miró, Picasso, Warhol, Basquiat, and even David Bowie.
Color the Dark Art Exhibition
The ‘Color of Dark’ Art Exhibition opens on April 4, 2024, in Waco,Texas at the Falcon & Owl Showroom. And, we couldn't be more excited about this event! We decided to kick off the Solar Eclipse Waco events with our VIP opening party. Come witness the mesmerizing colors and bold strokes that define Keil's unique style while experiencing important pieces from his private collection. Please join us for a very special Opening Night with Peter Keil IN ATTENDANCE! This is a once-a-lifetime opportunity to meet Peter in person and experience his art. Your $50 ticket brings you food from the Olive Branch, drinks from The Silos Tuscan Market, Parisian "gypsy" Jazz by the Uptown Swing Band, and an opportunity to win a painting worth $50,000!
More About Peter Robert Keil
The Artistic Style of PETER KEIL
From conversations with Martin Breuninge and Peter Keil at the Keil Collection Heidelberg, we learned that Peter entered a very formative phase of his artistic identity in the context of the Neue Wilde (New Wild) or Heftige Malerei (Wild Painting); he developed his own version of Expressionist painting depicted by wild brushstrokes and bold colors. It was also here that Keil developed a characteristically pictorial language that was conveyed by a duality between color and lines. Large-scale, freely gestural color application alternates with graphic structures, dynamically drawn lines and sweeping black outlines that define the visual context. The often violently moving style, the deliberate dissolution of the “real” image into a primitive, coarse mode of representation are similar to the ideas of the Cobra group or Art Brut. The distortion of motifs through collage, elements of writing, graffiti, and other experimental interventions in Keil's works also exemplify the style of Jean-Michel Basquiat. In the overall view of Keil's body of work, there are certain themes that reoccur often and therefore may be regarded as relevant: themes of his own emotional state and reactions to social developments or dream scenarios. He often paints distorted or exaggerated pictorials of all kinds of people he has met—from societal outcasts to famous actors, artists, politicians and producers. And always, he turns his gaze to the female body and the relationship between man and woman.
Artist's Availability and Pricing
Peter Robert Keil's creativity has been unbroken since his early youth, and he now looks back on a creative period of 60-plus years, producing an opulent body of work. The highly collectable work of Peter Keil can be found at art exhibitions, museums, galleries and private collections of celebrities and major art collectors throughout the world. His work is seen in high-end luxury hotels as well as some of the leading auction houses in Europe. And, though Keil is a prolific internationally recognized artist, he offers a special direct-from-artist pricing to American galleries and collectors who are interested in pieces from his private collection of work—past and present. It is very important to Peter that his work remains approachable from a pricing standpoint. The diversity of his work not only allows anyone to dive in but encourages many to become "collectors.” And, this is the goal.