Axel Krause "The Man at the Table". 1995. Axel Krause1958 Halle (Saale) - lives and works in Leipzig. Acrylic on canvas. U.r. signed "Axel Krause", dated and titled. Verso on the canvas signed again by the artist's hand in lead "Axel Krause" as well as dated, titled, technically and dimensionally inscribed. Framed in a black-brown wooden moulding with gold-coloured viewing strip. In his artistic work Axel Krause feels inwardly connected to the melancholic radiance of Edward Hopper, whom he admires. In Hopper's work, the depictions of people in rooms convey the inner state of the figures set in scene, in a certain static and loneliness, rather than the external mood of the event. An example of this is the painting "Automat" (1927): a woman sits alone at a table in a café. This picture gave Krause the impetus for the present painting. It can thus be understood as a homage to Hopper, as well as a counterpart to his painting "Automat". In addition, the subject is borrowed from the David Miller film "Mitternachtsspitzen" (1960), in which there is a scene with a man sitting at a table. We thank the artist Axel Krause, Leipzig, for his kind advice. In the marginal areas minimal traces of pressure due to framing. Dimensions: 50,5 x 70 cm, ra. 55,5 x 75,5 cm. Axel Krause 1958 Halle (Saale) - lives and works in Leipzig German painter and graphic artist. Krause is considered an exposed artist of the New Leipzig School. 1981-1986 studied painting at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig with Dietrich Burger, Volker Stelzmann, Günter Thiele and Arno Rink. 1990-1993 worked as a theatre painter at the Leipzig Opera. 1989-1999 Lecturer at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig. 1994-1996 postgraduate studies in art therapy at the Academy of Fine Arts Dresden. His work with artists such as Edward Hopper, Balthus and Giorgio de Chirico encouraged him in his quest for surreal, staged, precise pictorial inventions. Krause's works have been shown in numerous international solo and group exhibitions.