In the works from his early Berlin years, he mainly focused on typical big city settings and characters on the fringes of society. In the beginnings of his artistic career, Peter KeilвЂ™s style was influenced by German expressionism. Today he mainly lives and works in Zimmerau (Bavaria, Germany), Berlin and Los Angeles. From the early 60s on, Keil established studios in Paris, London, Berlin and in the US. During his time in Mallorca, he also met with Joan MirГі in his studio several times. During his studies at the University of Arts in Berlin, he came in contact with numerous other artists who later became influential artists of their generation, like for example Georg Baselitz, Eugen SchГ¶nebeck, Markus LГјpertz and Joachim Schmettau. In 1954, he began his traineeship as an artist metalworker and between 19, he studied at the University of Arts in Berlin.В When the Berlin WallВ was built, he lost contact with his mentor Otto Nagel and from the early 60s on, Keil started to spend more and more time abroad.

From 1954 on, the East Berlin-based painter Otto Nagel became his mentor and taught him first craft skills and painting techniques. This is where Peter Robert Keil grew up in the working-class neighbourhood of Berlin-Wedding and where he discovered his interest in painting вЂ“ particularly in expressionistic artists and inВ Pablo Picasso's work. During the end phase of the war, KeilвЂ™s mother, also an artistically talented woman, took her son and struggled her way to West Berlin where they settled. Similar artists.Peter Robert Keil was born to an artist blacksmithВ father whom he lost very early in his childhood during the Second World War. Peter Keil has 60 artist signature examples available in our database.

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There he admired the works of the Expressionists, Picasso in particular. Ten-year-old Peter Robert Keil fascinated by the books he found in the art section of the local library. There the young Keil attended school with singer and actress Conny Froboess and film star Horst Buchholz. There he grew up in the neighborhood of grey blocks of houses, the typical backyards and the trees of the park nearby. After the death of his father on the Eastern Front, mother and son set out to make their way through the chaos of battered Germany to West Berlin. His father was killed in the early years of World War II. Peter Robert Keil was born in August 1942 in ZГјllichau I Pommern (now Poland). The following information was submitted in August of 2006 by G.

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