Christian Peschke (1946 Bad Säckingen - 2017 Flintsbach) Seated female nude in a southern landscape In its powerfully outlining, contouring, two-dimensional style and colouring, this work is very much in the tradition of French modernism, especially of the Fauvists such as Henri Matisse as one of its most important representatives. Peschke contrasts the fiery, luminous red with cool blue and bright poison green, which heightens the expressive impact of the depiction. Female nudes are Peschke's central motifs as a painter, reflecting sensuality, eroticism and beauty. His colourful paintings express immediate passion and joy in life: For him, painting is "a language of the senses and emotions" and "an exciting visualisation of line and colour". Peschke, who studied under Gerhard Gollwitzer at the Stuttgart Academy, first settled in Spain as a freelance artist at the age of 35; he later lived in Merano and Bolzano, Bruckmühl and Flintsbach. Christian Peschke has been represented at numerous exhibitions in Germany and abroad since the mid-1990s. Oil or acrylic/plywood panel. Signed a. r. a. dat. (19)95. 104 cm x 84 cm. Frame. Provenance: Dissolution of the estate of a southern German private collection - Part I. Oil or acrylic on plywood panel. Signed and dated (19)95.