Casagrande Peter – Without title II

He was born in Weilheim, Germany, in 1946. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He then specialized at the University of the Arts in Berlin, and in 1983 he was a scholarship holder of the city of Munich.
He has organized about fifty solo domestic and international exhibitions and participated in about a hundred group exhibitions in Munich, Hanover, Vienna, Nuremberg, Frankfurt, Budapest, Milan, London, Cairo, at the international biennial in Poland, Berlin, Genoa, Piacenza,… He is the recipient of the German national award for visual arts. He is a member of the artists’ association BBK-Bayer. His works are found in numerous collections: the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and many galleries, the Fondazione Reverberi in Genoa,… Many publications have been issued and several television documentary films made about his work. He lives and works in Maitenbeth, Germany.

His painting is characterized by the expression of a powerful, free gesture which he records on the canvas with pure color. Oriented towards pure action painting, using lavage, with his gesture drawn through vast fields he creates splashes and pours, modeling with thick pigment thus bringing the painting process itself to the forefront. The paintings are his personal psychograms that depict the artist’s passion and strong energy released across the surfaces of the canvas.