
Raimund Girke (1930-2002) pursued his “Fundamental Painting” with impressive consistency. From the beginning of his free artistic activity, Girke concentrated on the color white and explored its infinite richness of variation. In overlapping layers of paint, coordinated in subtle nuances of grey, ochre, light and dark blue tones, he created a cosmos of iridescent colors that modulate the light. He ran the gamut of the white colour palette in the diversity of its materiality between density and reduction, rhythmizing it in an alternation of dynamism and concentrated stillness.
A comprehensive retrospective of his work took place in 1995/96 at the Sprengel Museum Hanover, Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal, Saarlandmuseum Saarbrücken and Kunsthalle Nürnberg. In the fall of 2000, the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz and the Kunstmuseum Heidenheim celebrated his 70th birthday. Posthumous major exhibitions were held at the Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop in 2009 and the Museum Kurhaus Kleve in 2012. Extensive catalogs were published for all of these exhibitions. Further recent presentations of his works took place in 2022/2023 at the Kupferstich-Kabinett in Dresden, which showed over 50 works from his entire career, including many that Girke himself had donated to the collection.Our collaboration with Raimund Girke began in 1980, and since then we have organized numerous exhibitions with him in Germany and abroad.
Today, we manage the art estate of his widow Karin Girke and place his work in private and public collections.