Shadows

"We sold our shadow,
it’s hanging on a wall in Hiroshima"
(Günter Eich, 1966)

Instead of painting everything, he painted nothing—or what was just barely still something: the form immediately before its disappearance, "slight, incidental impressions of light and shadow", which to him seemed worthy of recapturing—weak, as if in the initial stage of emerging on a photographic print—before their final retreat. Each of Erich Lindenberg’s enlightened pictures of a bleached-out world attempts to bring to light a vaguely recognizable object that seeks to disguise itself with the blinding intensity of nothingness. Yet exposed to light, the object fades all the more; the act of elucidation fails, and the form retreats into the antiform.
"My pictures acquire their statement in the dissolution of fixed points of reference," the painter notes.
 
Kimpel Harald, Erich Lindenberg. The collection of the Art Foundation Erich Lindenberg; Conceiving the Inconceivable: Interpretations and Meanings of Erich Lindenberg’s Shadow Pictures, Kerber Verlag 2010, page 15.

Shadows


"We sold our shadow,
it’s hanging on a wall in Hiroshima"
(Günter Eich, 1966)

Instead of painting everything, he painted nothing—or what was just barely still something: the form immediately before its disappearance, "slight, incidental impressions of light and shadow", which to him seemed worthy of recapturing—weak, as if in the initial stage of emerging on a photographic print—before their final retreat. Each of Erich Lindenberg’s enlightened pictures of a bleached-out world attempts to bring to light a vaguely recognizable object that seeks to disguise itself with the blinding intensity of nothingness. Yet exposed to light, the object fades all the more; the act of elucidation fails, and the form retreats into the antiform.
"My pictures acquire their statement in the dissolution of fixed points of reference," the painter notes.
 
Kimpel Harald, Erich Lindenberg. The collection of the Art Foundation Erich Lindenberg; Conceiving the Inconceivable: Interpretations and Meanings of Erich Lindenberg’s Shadow Pictures, Kerber Verlag 2010, page 15.

Elephantenschädel, 1978-1980

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110 x 95 cm

Schatten Liege rot, 1975-1985

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250 x 200 cm

Schatten Figur auf Treppe, 1976

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75 x 56 cm

Pferdeschädel, 1978

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60 x 52 cm

Schatten Liege rot, 1975-1985

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250 x 200 cm

Schatten liegende Figur, 1975

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70 x 90 cm

Schatten liegende Figur, 1975

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70 x 90 cm

Figur auf Treppe, diagonal, 1974-1980

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185 x 155 cm

Figur auf Treppe, diagonal, 1974-1980

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185 x 155 cm

Raum vor durchscheinendem Keilrahmen, 1974

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220 x 200 cm

Schatten Stuhl, 1972

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90 x 70 cm

Schatten Stuhl, Doppelprojektion, 1972

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220 x 195 cm

Schatten Kreuz diagonal, 1970-1975

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90 x 69 cm

Schatten Selbstbildnis, 1968-1970

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135 x 100 cm