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Bruno Griesel

The dawn of modernity

New Leipzig School

Bruno Griesel

Since studying drawing and painting at the Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts in the 1980s with teachers Volker Stelzmann, Wolfgang Peuker and Bernhard Heisig, Griesel has been exploring a naturalistic and figurative style of painting.  He discovered his love for Baroque painting and its associated genres (biblical history, devotional painting, portraiture), themes and motifs.  Deep sensations and melting colourfulness were the painterly values of this period that so fascinate Griesel.