Tim Eitel

📷🔳Tim Eitel (born 1971) is a German artist. 

Tim Eitel uses photographs that he takes of urban spaces as the basis for his paintings, resulting in works that are both realistic and detached from reality.

Many of Eitel’s paintings and lithographs are of figures or obscured objects taken out of context and placed in an ambiguous background painted in muted, industrial colors.

Tim's medium is figurative painting, of which he is an exceptionally gifted master. His motifs include people in everyday situations, abandoned buildings and garbage containers in seemingly completely empty spaces.

A common feature of these paintings is that they center on people and human activity, but Eitel achieves this so undramatically that the viewer merely has a sense of something intangible going on between the brushstrokes. A silent dynamism.

Eitel creates works that are art historically informed and stylistically sophisticated, yet extremely accessible. The legacy of Gerhard Richter’s photorealist work is discernible in Eitel’s paintings, as is Richard Diebenkorn’s use of the human figure in abstracted spaces.

Eitel himself counts Caspar David Friedrich, Edouard Manet, Barnett Newman, Jeff Wall, and Thomas Demand among his influences.

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