Ohne Titel. 2016.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and inscribed with the work number “2016/4” on the reverse. 160.5 x 130 cm (63.1 x 51.1 in).


• Kneffel, like Richter, uses historical photographs that she adapts in a painterly manner.
• The Hermann Lange Collection, reconstructed by Kneffel in this series, included some of the most important works of Modern art.
• The Chagall painting shown here is in the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, while Kneffel corrects how it is displayed there. She renders the painting the other way around, as historically seen.
• The artist plays with reality and fiction on different pictorial levels.
• Kneffel held a professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 2008 to 2022.
• Paintings by the artist can be found in significant public collections, including the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, the Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, and the Olbricht Collection, Berlin.

Listed on the artist's official website.

PROVENANCE: Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills.
Private collection (acquired from the above in 2016).

EXHIBITION: Karin Kneffel: New Works, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, April 28 - June 11, 2016.

"Indeed, the first impression that observers of Karin Kneffel's paintings gain is one of a virtuously staged artificiality and an insurmountable insecurity and fragility of our pictorial access to the world [..]."
Thomas Wagner, in: Karin Kneffel. Haus am Stadtrand, Krefeld 2009, p. 71.