Nature has always been a powerful source of inspiration for Albrecht Tübke. With its inexhaustible diversity and beauty, it is a central theme in his paintings.
Albrecht Tübke (born July 16, 1971, in Leipzig) is a German painter and photographer. He studied at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig, where he earned his diploma in 1997. He then served as a master student under Timm Rautert. He went on to study at Guildhall University in London, graduating in 2001.
As a painter, Albrecht Tübke devotes himself not only to portraiture but also to still life; his oil paintings follow the tradition of classical glazing techniques from the Renaissance period. In lengthy and complex creative processes, the paintings are created using many overlapping transparent layers. The resulting oil paintings exhibit a high degree of precision in detail and display impressive depth of color. In photography, his focus is on the human figure. These are primarily full-body portraits in which color is greatly reduced.
Tübke is concerned with depicting the individuality and uniqueness of the human being. The subjects almost always look directly into the camera. Through the intensity of their gaze and his sensitive observation of the subjects’ postures, Tübke succeeds in creating images of great intensity using a documentary approach. Albrecht Tübke lives and works in Italy and Germany.
