BIOGRAPHIE

Christian Brechneffs pastels and oil paintings, drawn in various locations around the world, indicate a remarkably direct, close relationship-rather startling intimacy and engagement-with nature, similar to that of the Impressionists. These 19th Century artists retained a certain «scientific» distance and detachment-they wanted to observe the details of atmosphere and light, not immerse themselves in the totality of nature-that Brechneff altogether abandons, without abandoning any of his artistic ability and awareness, indeed, the acumen of his hand.

There is in fact a strong sense of the limitless-the rupture of the unbounded-in Brechneffs works. One can feel it in every detail, as it loses its boundaries in the process of fusing-in a kind of magmatic fury-with other details, to form an amorphous infinity. Brechneff pictures what has been called «nonindifferent nature»-a nature into which we project our own emotions-but it is also a nature that reminds us of our irrelevance in the larger scheme of the cosmos.

Born in the former Belgian Congo in 1950, Christian Peltenburg-Brechneff was educated in Switzerland, England and the United States of America. In 1975 he received his Master of Art Degree from the Royal College of Art in London. He has exhibited in Europe and the United States of America, and has won numerous awards, including the Swiss Federal Government Scholarship. Brechneff continues to exhibit regularly in New York, San Francisco, Zürich and Basel.

His paintings appear in public and private collections worldwide including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Greece, and the Orange Country Museum, Newport Beach, California.

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KUNSTWERKE Christian Peltenburg-Brechneff

Diavolezza, 1998
Öl und Pastell auf Leinwand
74 x 99 cm
Christian Peltenburg-Brechneff
Diavolezza

1998

Öl und Pastell auf Leinwand

74 x 99 cm

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Untitled, 1973
Acryl auf Leinwand
127 x 152.5 cm
Christian Peltenburg-Brechneff
Untitled

1973

Acryl auf Leinwand

127 x 152.5 cm

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Mountain Landscape, 1998
Öl auf Leinwand
74 x 99 cm
Christian Peltenburg-Brechneff
Mountain Landscape

1998

Öl auf Leinwand

74 x 99 cm

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Mountain Landscape Serie 1 Nr. 1, 2024
Öl auf Leinwand
102 x 122 cm
Christian Peltenburg-Brechneff
Mountain Landscape Serie 1 Nr. 1

2024

Öl auf Leinwand

102 x 122 cm

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Mountain Landscape Serie 4 Nr. 7, 1996/97
Öl auf Leinwand
100 x 78 cm
Christian Peltenburg-Brechneff
Mountain Landscape Serie 4 Nr. 7

1996/97

Öl auf Leinwand

100 x 78 cm

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Mountain Landscape Serie 1 Nr. 2, 2024
Öl auf Leinwand
102 x 122 cm
Christian Peltenburg-Brechneff
Mountain Landscape Serie 1 Nr. 2

2024

Öl auf Leinwand

102 x 122 cm

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Mountain Landscape, 1996/97
Öl auf Leinwand
74 x 99 cm
Christian Peltenburg-Brechneff
Mountain Landscape

1996/97

Öl auf Leinwand

74 x 99 cm

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