Gallery

The gallery provides a brief introduction to Gerd Baukhage’s work and serves as a thematic overview. Exemplary works can be seen here.

Found objects

Around 1964, Gerd Baukhage began to paint objects that had been reshaped or shaped by man. He composed worked cuboids, fired clay bricks, buttons and other small parts into flat and contrapuntal still lifes. The object images, abstracted in the enlargement, are painted with a brush and sometimes also sprayed with thin liquid colors through a small atomizer.

GB/M 143
1968
Oil on canvas
130 x 110 x 2 cm

GB/M 163
1969
Oil on canvas
100 x 180 x 2 cm

GB/M 200
1969
Oil on canvas
130 x 110 x 2 cm

GB/M 236
1970
Oil on canvas
130 x 110 x 2 cm

GB/M 242
Transfluxormatrizenspeicher
1968
Oil on canvas
130 x 110 x 2 cm

GB/M 243
Transfluxormatrizenspeicher
1968
Oil on canvas
130 x 110 x 2 cm

GB/P 363
1970
spray-paint on paper
50.2 x 50 x 0.2 cm

GB/P 372
1970
spray-paint on paper
50 x 50 x 0.2 cm

GB/P 411
1970
spray-paint on paper
50 x 50 x 0.2 cm

GB/P 433
1970
spray-paint on paper
50.4 x 50 x 0.2 cm

GB/P 1395
1970
spray-paint on paper
70.4 x 50 x 0.2 cm

GB/P 1743
1971
spray-paint on paper
70.3 x 50.2 x 0.2 cm

Rooms

Around 1971, Gerd Baukhage greatly reduced his color palette, resulting in a series of “political” paintings. The highly stylized emptiness in the depicted rooms has the timeless character of memorials.

GB/M 256
Gaskammer in St. Quentin (Kalifornien)
1971
oil and spray-paint on canvas
110 x 150 x 2 cm

GB/M 275
Krematorium im KZ Majdanek
1972
mixed media and oil on canvas
120 x 120 x 2 cm

GB/M 327
Gaskammer KZ Majdanek
1972
oil, tempera and sand mixed media on canvas
180 x 180 cm

GB/M 328
“Jedem das Seine”
um 1970
Oil on canvas
70 x 83 cm

GB/M 389
um 1975
oil and spray-paint on canvas
130 x 110 x 2 cm

GB/P 1907
1976
dispersion and oil on paper
50.4 x 70.3 x 0.2 cm

Barriers

Gerd Baukhage himself named the title “Versperrungen” (“Barriers”) and confesses that they have become a “sign of thought and life” for him. Who builds the barriers? How could they be removed? What do they conceal? Assembled, screwed together, partially charred, stained or painted boards are used as a motif. The artist increases the monumentality of the forms in large wall-filling formats.

GB/M 8
Versperrung
1973
Oil on canvas
130 x 110 cm

GB/M 95
Versperrung 11
1973 / 1975
Oil on canvas
110 x 130 x 2 cm

GB/M 278
um 1973
Oil on canvas
180 x 200 x 2 cm

GB/M 325
Versperrung
1976
oil, tempera and sand mixed media on canvas
200 x 180.5 cm

GB/M 330
Versperrung mit durchbrochener Rostplatte
1975
Oil on canvas
180 x 200 cm

GB/M 664
Versperrung
1973
Oil on canvas
150 x 250 x 2 cm

GB/P 780
1978
charcoal and mixed media on paper
70.3 x 50.3 x 0.2 cm

GB/P 787
1968
mixed media and charcoal on paper
70.3 x 49.8 x 0.2 cm

GB/P 858
1975
charcoal and pastel on paper
50.3 x 70.4 x 0.2 cm

GB/P 1011
1976
spray-paint, dispersion and charcoal on paper
50.2 x 70.2 x 0.2 cm

Iron plates

Around 1980, the blocking was increasingly supplemented or replaced by depictions of iron. Iron in all its manifestations of matt, oxidized and rusted. The motifs become more reduced and monochrome. Gerd Baukhage developed a very unique and tactile pictorial technique by adding sand to the lower layers of paint.

GB/M 115
1980
tempera, sand and oil on canvas
130 x 110 x 2 cm

GB/M 128
1986
tempera, sand and oil on canvas
110 x 130 x 2 cm

GB/M 503
1980
tempera, sand and oil on canvas
200 x 180 x 2 cm

GB/M 521
um 1980
tempera, sand and oil on canvas
200 x 180 x 2 cm

Watercolors

As a constant draughtsman and painter, Gerd Baukhage has created a large oeuvre of watercolors in Cologne and on numerous trips within Europe. In these works, a varied color palette and a great understanding of spatial depth can be discovered.
The artist began painting watercolors in 1933 and continued throughout his entire creative career.