4583 - Peter Robert Keil, Female Nude

Peter Robert Keil, Female Nude Symbolist erotic depiction of a woman, rendered with a bold, fluid brushstroke, oil on canvas, signed lower right, mounted and stretched across two frames, minor losses at the edges and corners, Inner dimensions approx. 150 x 99.5 cm. Artist information: born Peter Robert Keil, German painter and sculptor (born 1942 in Züllichau, Pomerania), spent his childhood in Berlin-Wedding, from 1954 a pupil of Otto Nagel, initially an apprentice metalworker from 1954, 1959-61: studied at the Berlin-Charlottenburg University of the Arts, followed by stays with Joan Miró in Mallorca; a representative of the ‘Young Wild Ones’ and the ‘hippie movement’ of the 1960s and 1970s; a member of the Berlin Association of Visual Artists; worked in Zimmerau, Berlin, London, Paris and Los Angeles (Hollywood), Source: Wikipedia and the artist’s website.