Romane Holderried Kaesdorf: Drawing of the urgent motive

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The exhibition, which was created in cooperation with the estate, brings together paintings and drawings from four decades, in which an idiosyncratic but very accessible world of recurring figures and objects unfolds.

Born in Biberach in Upper Swabia in 1922 and married to the lawyer and painter Julius Kaesdorf, she remained lifelong connected to her hometown, where she lived and worked until her death in 2007, with the exception of her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart.

Always in lively exchange with other contemporary artists and with a keen eye on their environment, Romane Holderried Kaesdorf developed an unmistakable visual language that humorously and precisely shows people and their relationship with reality. The figures, drawn free-hand, with large, always busy hands and jagged faces, often wrestle with everyday objects, only to free themselves later and devote themselves to their own bodies.

This deep examination of physicality and personal action and the resulting autonomy make Romane Holderried Kaesdorf one of the most exciting figurative artists of her generation today.  Her work can now be seen comprehensively in Berlin for the first time since her solo exhibition in 1998 at the nGbK and her room at KW Berlin as part of the 2011 exhibition After Completion of the Journey curated by Eva-Maria Wilde  .