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German artist Thitz reinvents the traditional Grand Tour artist by painting city scenes on scavenged paper bags from his travels. The bags are opened out flat for maximum coverage, and the acrylic paintings are executed with energetic, bird's-eye views of individual landmarks, creating a new spin on pop art that integrates everyday reality, art, and life.
Recognizable cities and places are transformed into Thitz's colorful and infinitely detailed narrative tissue of line-like events, making each piece a unique and vibrant creation. With a focus on positive visions of the future, climate change and pandemics are defeated in Thitz’s artwork.
Thitz's passion for his craft has earned him a prominent place in the art world, with his bag paintings and other works featured in numerous exhibitions and private collections around the world.
Thitz, a German artist, reimagines the age-old tradition of artists embarking on the Grand Tour. His unique approach involves painting city scenes onto paper bags that he collects from the places he visits. To achieve maximum coverage, he carefully unfolds these bags, and then, with the use of acrylics, he meticulously paints energetic, bird's-eye views of specific landmarks within these cities. This innovative technique adds a distinctive twist to the conventional artist's journey.
Thitz takes Pop Art to the next level: He intensifies it and integrates it with everyday reality, art, life, and their sensorial experience. His subjects and motifs are born of wide travels. The cities and places depicted can be immediately recognized, but they do not merely portray views. They are transformations into the colorful, lineal weave of Thitz’s art. The rich, infinitely detailed circumstances are translated into a vivid and diverse narrative tissue of line-like events.
Thitz has been working on the subject of Utopia for 12 years. His positive visions of the future are a beacon for a better world. Climate change and pandemic are defeated in Thitz’s artwork. He studied at the National Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart finishing in 1989 and then continued his studies at the Facultad de Bellas Artes Universidad de Barcelona in 1990. He created his first bag paintings in 1987.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Galerie Reitz, Cologne, Germany
2015 Municipal Gallery Villa Streccius
2010 “Museum Anhaltische Gemaldegalerie Dessau
2001 German House, New York
GROUP EXHIBITIONS & FAIRS
2023 LA Art Show, Los Angeles, CA
2022 LA Art Show, Los Angeles, CA
2020 LA Art Show, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Biennale di Venezia, Italy
2018 Museum Kunsthaus Apolda Avantgarde
Museum de Arte Londrina, Brazil
2017 Municipal Gallery Eschborn
Art Association Wasserschloss Bad Rappenau
Galerie 3 Cerises, Paris
2016 Museum Kunstverein Wesel
2012 Museum Chungdamn Art Centre, Seoul, South Korea
2008 Cultural City Centre, Athens, Greece
Museum Palais Liechtenstein, Feldkirch, Austria
2007 Miami Children’s Museum
Art Basel, Miami Beach FL
Art Miami, Miami, FL
1997 “Art-Politics Dialogue”, Ministry for Education, Holstein Germany
1993 International Association of Art
Thitz, a German artist, reimagines the age-old tradition of artists embarking on the Grand Tour. His unique approach involves painting city scenes onto paper bags that he collects from the places he visits. To achieve maximum coverage, he carefully unfolds these bags, and then, with the use of acrylics, he meticulously paints energetic, bird's-eye views of specific landmarks within these cities. This innovative technique adds a distinctive twist to the conventional artist's journey.
Thitz takes Pop Art to the next level: He intensifies it and integrates it with everyday reality, art, life, and their sensorial experience. His subjects and motifs are born of wide travels. The cities and places depicted can be immediately recognized, but they do not merely portray views. They are transformations into the colorful, lineal weave of Thitz’s art. The rich, infinitely detailed circumstances are translated into a vivid and diverse narrative tissue of line-like events.
Thitz has been working on the subject of Utopia for 12 years. His positive visions of the future are a beacon for a better world. Climate change and pandemic are defeated in Thitz’s artwork. He studied at the National Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart finishing in 1989 and then continued his studies at the Facultad de Bellas Artes Universidad de Barcelona in 1990. He created his first bag paintings in 1987.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Galerie Reitz, Cologne, Germany
2015 Municipal Gallery Villa Streccius
2010 “Museum Anhaltische Gemaldegalerie Dessau
2001 German House, New York
GROUP EXHIBITIONS & FAIRS
2023 LA Art Show, Los Angeles, CA
2022 LA Art Show, Los Angeles, CA
2020 LA Art Show, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Biennale di Venezia, Italy
2018 Museum Kunsthaus Apolda Avantgarde
Museum de Arte Londrina, Brazil
2017 Municipal Gallery Eschborn
Art Association Wasserschloss Bad Rappenau
Galerie 3 Cerises, Paris
2016 Museum Kunstverein Wesel
2012 Museum Chungdamn Art Centre, Seoul, South Korea
2008 Cultural City Centre, Athens, Greece
Museum Palais Liechtenstein, Feldkirch, Austria
2007 Miami Children’s Museum
Art Basel, Miami Beach FL
Art Miami, Miami, FL
1997 “Art-Politics Dialogue”, Ministry for Education, Holstein Germany
1993 International Association of Art