Ulf Puder

Ulf Puder (b. 1958, Leipzig, Germany) lives and works in Leipzig and Liemehna, Germany. His paintings of architectural structures are devoid of human life and hover between abstraction and representation. Puder juxtaposes chaos and calm. Symbols of human creation, industrialization, and desolation are depicted in extreme perspectives against dusky skies. Puder's scenes evoke a sense of calm disorder, or animated stillness, as startling and haunting as they appear to the viewer.

Puder completed his undergraduate studies at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig (then East Germany) with Professor Burger and Professor Bernhard Heisig, followed by a master's degree with Professor Bernhard Heisig. In 1999 and 2000, he was included in the groundbreaking exhibition After the Wall, which was shown at the following institutions: Nationalgalerie-Hamburger Bahnhof; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Berlin; Ludwig Museum, Budapest; Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm; and Galerie Schwind, Frankfurt. As a leading figure in the German art scene, his work is widely collected by institutions such as the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Kunsthalle Sparkasse, Leipzig; Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig; Staatliche; Kunstsammlung, Dresden; Städtische Galerie, Wolfsburg; Sammlung Bankhaus Metzler; Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt am Main; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main; and Sammlung Hypo Vereinsbank, Munich. In the United States he has exhibited at the Neuberger Museum of Art, in Purchase, NY and at Hudson Valley MOCA, in Peekskill, NY.