165 - Karl Godeg, “Hommage à Magritte”, a large surrealist oil painting from 1980

Karl Godeg, “Hommage à Magritte”, a large surrealist oil painting from 1980 Karl Godeg (born Ernst Karl Goldberg) 1896 Reichenbach - 1982 Berlin, German painter and sculptor, here: “Hommage à Magritte” - a headless female nude, clad only in a glove, with her lower legs stuck in a table set in a surreal landscape, oil on canvas, 95 x 110 cm, signed and dated on the right 80, inscribed “Hommage à Magritte” on a label on the reverse.About the artist: Karl Godeg initially trained as a stonemason and subsequently studied sculpture at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. He later moved to Berlin, where he studied painting under the renowned Expressionist artist César Klein. Throughout his life, he worked both as a freelance artist and as a lecturer and assistant professor of painting in Berlin. Godeg gained wider international recognition from the 1960s onwards through his abstract compositions, in which he used gold and silver pigments. These works were particularly well received in the Paris art scene and were exhibited there in renowned galleries such as the Galerie Alain Margaron. In addition to purely abstract works, his later output included compositions that combined surreal and figurative elements, such as depictions of skulls and female forms in harmonious colour schemes, as seen in this work.