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Jupp Linssen

On view in Montecito January 22 - February 26

Jupp Linssen’s primarily neutral or muted color palette stays close to the quality of earth and raw substances, as if to underline the elemental and ancient nature of painting. Though their physical make-up is complex, his images are simple and light, giving an airy second life to even the heaviest materials.

Biography

Objects, collages, assemblages, paintings: German artist Jupp Linssen works between categories, building up sensuous surfaces from humble materials more commonly associated with construction than art. In addition to paint, his mixed-media work incorporates old wooden slats, zinc sheets, marble dust, concrete, paper, tin, wax, and plaster. He expresses sensitivity to these materials—the weathered, leached-out wood, the soft marble, the oxidized iron—through his richly textured painting, which, in the tradition of modernists like Duchamp or Kurt Schwitters, intentionally blurs the boundary between what is found and what is artistically produced.

Linssen has called painting “the result of something that was eliminated or that which still remains,” a statement both matter-of-fact and bold in its claim for painting as the pure residue of process. His primarily neutral or muted color palette stays close to the quality of earth and raw substances, as if to underline the elemental and ancient nature of painting. Though their physical make-up is complex, his images are simple and light, giving an airy second life to even the heaviest materials. In his latest work, smooth ovals in muted hues float over the picture plane, recalling air bubbles, computer animations, or single-celled organisms. Minimal grids give certain works a loose architectural structure, containing the floating forms in window-like spaces.

Linssen’s art rewards close observation and embraces the idea that if one is open to their possibilities and properties, unassuming materials contain integrity and beauty. Born in Germany in 1957, he studied with renowned minimalist painter and sculptor Joachim Bandeau and lives and works in Aachen and the Netherlands. He has taught at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf and exhibited widely in Germany and abroad, with work included in the collections of the German government, the Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen, and the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen Museum, Düsseldorf.

Born

1957 Germany


Education

Studied art at RWTH, Aachen, Germany


Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions

2025  Caldwell Snyder Gallery, Montecito, CA

2024  Galerie Reitz Zürich, Schweiz

2023  Kazerne Eindhofen Contempo Gallery, Niederlande

          Gallerie zwei, St. Andrä, Österreich

2022  Maison de la Poste, Brüssel, Belgien

          Gallerie Ulrike Hrobsky, Wien, Österreich

2021  F.O.M.A Art and Advice Rivolie, Brüssel, Belgien

2020 Art And Advice Gallery Hasselt Genk, Belgien

          Verbindung mit Galerie 1830 in Aachen

2019  Kunstverein Bad-Nauheim

          Kunstraum No.10 Mönchengladbach

          Art Market San Francisco, Caldwell Snyder Gallery

          Galerie Freitag 1830 Aachen

          Gallerie Ulrike Hrobsky Wien, Österreich

2018  35th Anniversary Show, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco

2016  Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St. Helena, CA.

          Art Market SF, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

2015 Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

           Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne, Germany.

2014 Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St. Helena, CA.

           Galerie Florian Trampler, Munich, Germany.

2013 Galerie Titus Koch, Gottmadingen, Germany.

           Haus Overbach, Jülich-Barmen, Germany.

           Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

           Summer of Paper, Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne, Germany.

           Aretha Galerie am Rasengarten, Mannheim, Germany.

           Galerie Ulrike Hrobsky, Vienna, Austria.

2012 Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

           ML Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium.

           Conny Dietcszhold Gallery, Sydney, Australia.

2011 Kunstverein, Das Damianstor, Bruchsal, Germany.

           Forum for Arts and Culture Herzogenrath in the Euregio EV, Herzogenrath, Germany.

           Kunstraumno.10, Mönchengladbach, Germany.

2010 Conny Dietcszhold Gallery, Sydney, Australia.

           Galerie Ulrike Hrobsky, Vienna, Austria.

           Knoll Art, Oberhöfen, Germany.

2009 Galerie Christine Phal, Paris, France.

           Gallery Reitz, Cologne, Germany.

2008 Vegetable, Galerie Brockstedt, Berlin, Germany.

           Galerie Christine Phal, Paris, France.

2007 Clemens-Josef-Haus, Blankenheim, Germany.

           Galerie Ulrike Hrobsky, Vienna, Austria.

           Artline Bloemgracht, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

           Kreiskrankenhaus Emmendingen, Emmendingen, Germany.

2006 Galerie Christine Phal, Paris, France.

2005 Galerie Brockstedt, Berlin, Germany.

           Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

           Galerie Artline, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

           Galerie Pudelko, Bonn, Germany.

           SF International Art Exposition, San Francisco, CA.

2004  SF International Art Exposition, San Francisco, CA.


Awards

1987 Foundation Art of Aachen, Aachen, Germany.

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Selected Artworks

Untitled 24466

Untitled 24466

Mixed Media on Canvas

51 x 47 inches

24466

Untitled 24465

Untitled 24465

Mixed Media on Canvas

51 x 47 inches

24465

Untitled 24464

Untitled 24464

Mixed Media on Canvas

52 x 59 inches

24464

Untitled 24463

Untitled 24463

Mixed Media on Canvas

69 x 59 inches

24463

Untitled 24462

Untitled 24462

Mixed Media on Canvas

71 x 59 inches

24462

Untitled 24461

Untitled 24461

Mixed Media on Canvas

71 x 59 inches

24461

Untitled 24460

Untitled 24460

Mixed Media on Canvas

71 x 57 inches

24460

Untitled 24459

Untitled 24459

Mixed Media on Canvas

71 x 59 inches

24459

Untitled 24458

Untitled 24458

Mixed Media on Canvas

56 x 68 inches

24458

Untitled 24457

Untitled 24457

Mixed Media on Canvas

71 x 59 inches

24457

Untitled 23468

Untitled 23468

Mixed Media on Canvas

71 x 51 inches

23468

Losr II, 5812

Losr II, 5812

Mixed Media on Canvas

51 x 43 inches

23408

Vegetabile III, 2011

Vegetabile III, 2011

Mixed Media on Canvas

39 x 51 inches

23406

Untitled #220551

Untitled #220551

Mixed Media on Canvas

44 x 80 inches

220551

Untitled #80512

Untitled #80512

Mixed Media on Canvas

55 x 52 inches

190287

Untitled #78312

Untitled #78312

Mixed Media on Canvas

41 x 46 inches

190237

Untitled #79912 (6pc’s)

Untitled #79912 (6pc’s)

Mixed Media on Canvas

48 x 48 inches

190163

Regale I

Regale I

Mixed Media on Canvas

55 x 39 inches

170584

Ball Point II #84214

Ball Point II #84214

Mixed Media on Canvas

67 x 59 inches

160054

Untitled #14613

Untitled #14613

Mixed Media on Canvas

79 x 130 inches

030813

Untitled #09613

Untitled #09613

Mixed Media on Canvas

69 x 51 inches

030732

Born

1957 Germany


Education

Studied art at RWTH, Aachen, Germany


Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions

2025  Caldwell Snyder Gallery, Montecito, CA

2024  Galerie Reitz Zürich, Schweiz

2023  Kazerne Eindhofen Contempo Gallery, Niederlande

          Gallerie zwei, St. Andrä, Österreich

2022  Maison de la Poste, Brüssel, Belgien

          Gallerie Ulrike Hrobsky, Wien, Österreich

2021  F.O.M.A Art and Advice Rivolie, Brüssel, Belgien

2020 Art And Advice Gallery Hasselt Genk, Belgien

          Verbindung mit Galerie 1830 in Aachen

2019  Kunstverein Bad-Nauheim

          Kunstraum No.10 Mönchengladbach

          Art Market San Francisco, Caldwell Snyder Gallery

          Galerie Freitag 1830 Aachen

          Gallerie Ulrike Hrobsky Wien, Österreich

2018  35th Anniversary Show, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco

2016  Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St. Helena, CA.

          Art Market SF, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

2015 Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

           Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne, Germany.

2014 Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St. Helena, CA.

           Galerie Florian Trampler, Munich, Germany.

2013 Galerie Titus Koch, Gottmadingen, Germany.

           Haus Overbach, Jülich-Barmen, Germany.

           Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

           Summer of Paper, Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne, Germany.

           Aretha Galerie am Rasengarten, Mannheim, Germany.

           Galerie Ulrike Hrobsky, Vienna, Austria.

2012 Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

           ML Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium.

           Conny Dietcszhold Gallery, Sydney, Australia.

2011 Kunstverein, Das Damianstor, Bruchsal, Germany.

           Forum for Arts and Culture Herzogenrath in the Euregio EV, Herzogenrath, Germany.

           Kunstraumno.10, Mönchengladbach, Germany.

2010 Conny Dietcszhold Gallery, Sydney, Australia.

           Galerie Ulrike Hrobsky, Vienna, Austria.

           Knoll Art, Oberhöfen, Germany.

2009 Galerie Christine Phal, Paris, France.

           Gallery Reitz, Cologne, Germany.

2008 Vegetable, Galerie Brockstedt, Berlin, Germany.

           Galerie Christine Phal, Paris, France.

2007 Clemens-Josef-Haus, Blankenheim, Germany.

           Galerie Ulrike Hrobsky, Vienna, Austria.

           Artline Bloemgracht, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

           Kreiskrankenhaus Emmendingen, Emmendingen, Germany.

2006 Galerie Christine Phal, Paris, France.

2005 Galerie Brockstedt, Berlin, Germany.

           Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

           Galerie Artline, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

           Galerie Pudelko, Bonn, Germany.

           SF International Art Exposition, San Francisco, CA.

2004  SF International Art Exposition, San Francisco, CA.


Awards

1987 Foundation Art of Aachen, Aachen, Germany.

Objects, collages, assemblages, paintings: German artist Jupp Linssen works between categories, building up sensuous surfaces from humble materials more commonly associated with construction than art. In addition to paint, his mixed-media work incorporates old wooden slats, zinc sheets, marble dust, concrete, paper, tin, wax, and plaster. He expresses sensitivity to these materials—the weathered, leached-out wood, the soft marble, the oxidized iron—through his richly textured painting, which, in the tradition of modernists like Duchamp or Kurt Schwitters, intentionally blurs the boundary between what is found and what is artistically produced.

Linssen has called painting “the result of something that was eliminated or that which still remains,” a statement both matter-of-fact and bold in its claim for painting as the pure residue of process. His primarily neutral or muted color palette stays close to the quality of earth and raw substances, as if to underline the elemental and ancient nature of painting. Though their physical make-up is complex, his images are simple and light, giving an airy second life to even the heaviest materials. In his latest work, smooth ovals in muted hues float over the picture plane, recalling air bubbles, computer animations, or single-celled organisms. Minimal grids give certain works a loose architectural structure, containing the floating forms in window-like spaces.

Linssen’s art rewards close observation and embraces the idea that if one is open to their possibilities and properties, unassuming materials contain integrity and beauty. Born in Germany in 1957, he studied with renowned minimalist painter and sculptor Joachim Bandeau and lives and works in Aachen and the Netherlands. He has taught at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf and exhibited widely in Germany and abroad, with work included in the collections of the German government, the Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen, and the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen Museum, Düsseldorf.

Jupp Linssen
Biography

Press

On view in Montecito January 22 - February 26

Jupp Linssen’s primarily neutral or muted color palette stays close to the quality of earth and raw substances, as if to underline the elemental and ancient nature of painting. Though their physical make-up is complex, his images are simple and light, giving an airy second life to even the heaviest materials.

Jupp Linssen

With richly textured surfaces resembling fascinating rocks and shells, German artist Jupp Linssen’s mixed-media paintings reference nature and ancient artifacts as well as minimalist art. Linssen has referred to painting as “the result of something that was eliminated or that which still remains,” a philosophy that can be seen in his process, which incorporates materials ranging from marble dust and concrete to paper, plaster, wood, and tin.

On view in Montecito January 22 - February 26

Jupp Linssen’s primarily neutral or muted color palette stays close to the quality of earth and raw substances, as if to underline the elemental and ancient nature of painting. Though their physical make-up is complex, his images are simple and light, giving an airy second life to even the heaviest materials.

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