Christiane Latendorf "The Wink to Home". 2021. Christiane Latendorf 1968 Anklam. Oil on chipboard. Signed on verso "Christiane Latendorf", titled, dated and monogrammed "CHL". Mounted firmly in the black artist's frame by nailing. "Christiane Latendorf has mastered her means without ever flirting with them in an artistically self-indulgent manner; she has no time for that. For her ideas come to her non-stop, she presumably plans little, her intuition guides her, not her pictorial intelligence, which certainly, but in the background, does its professional work. - For these reasons, it is better not to search for intentions. What she wants may merge with new impulses in the next moment. Thus, in this peculiar, ingenious picture, everything floats or flows that does not freeze in contrast. But all this is permeated by an earnestness which only half clearly and all the more oppressively lets the driven feel as the necessity that it just comes that way and not otherwise, artistic points of view may play their role, but the main thing is just another. Dominating the first and last impression is this rigid detail in front, as a whole frightening before the uncanny depths." Quoted from: Heiner Protzmann, Laudatio zur Midissage "Zeichen und Zustände" im Landgericht Bautzen, Vorgetragen von Jan Bereska am 26. Mai 2011. Isolzelte, unscheinbare Kratzer auf der Bildfläche. Picture support on the upper left with small fraying. Frame with traces of paint from the work process and with numerous scratches. Dimensions: 105 x 85 cm, overall 115 x 92 cm. Christiane Latendorf 1968 Anklam Painter and graphic artist. 1985-1987 apprenticeship as a skilled worker in pharmacy, then worked in the profession until 1988. 1988-91 studies as a pharmaceutical engineer in Leipzig, at the same time evening studies at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig. 1992-97 studies of painting and graphic arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden, final diploma with distinction. Lives and works in Dresden and Anklam.