JOHANNES LOTZ (Germany, 1975). "Jüdischer Seemann", 2007. Tempera on canvas.

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  JOHANNES LOTZ (Germany, 1975). "Jüdischer Seemann", 2007. Tempera on canvas. Presents label on the back of the Michael Janssen Gallery (Berlin). Signed, dated, titled and located (Berlin) on the back. Measurements: 230 x 180 cm. Two personages star in a scene dominated by a horror vacui, where the forms and the tonalities are diluted among themselves, creating a confused image, and very expressive. In the center of the composition the protagonists look at the viewer, one of them with the appearance of a sailor, and the other with a large halo surrounding his face, indicating a certain degree of mysticism with respect to this character. The piece is directly influenced by other avant-garde aesthetic styles, such as expressionism or surrealism. An example of this is the enigmatic nature of the characters, the colors used and the composition in which space merges and seems to rush into the foreground. One of the most characteristic features of the piece is the title, Jüdischer Seamann, which alludes to the main characters, as well as reminding in a way to the Jüdischer Kulturbund, or Jewish Cultural League, which was an organization created in 1933 by Jewish artists, under the protection of the Nazi government, which forced them to change their original name (Kulturbund Deustscher Juden). Johannes Lozt began his artistic training in 1995, when he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Mainz with Friedemann Hahn. From 2002 to 2004 he completed a postgraduate degree in visual design and therapy, with Gertraud Schottenloher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and in 2011 he began working as a lecturer at the Saar College of Fine Arts. Johannes Lotz's first exhibition was Teuton Pop at Columbia University in 2002. His work is represented in different parts of the world, most notably Germany, although he has also participated in shows in Holland, the United States and elsewhere. Lotz has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in the last 14 years. Among them, the exhibition held at Galerie Michael Janssen in 2007, at the LeRoy Neiman Gallery in New York, and at Kunstverein Familie Montez e.V. in Frankfurt. With his work, Lotz places himself among the great tradition of the liberation and deformation of the figurative, which began in the 70s and 80s in a Germany divided by the Berlin Wall, and in which events such as Documenta rescued and debated on artistic expression and definition after the war. Some of his artistic references are El Greco, Titian, Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Caim Soutine, Francis Bacon and Maria Lassnig.
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