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"The Artist Horst Deuter"
(Magazine „nobles baleares“)
Knowingly the artist Horst Deuter likes to break the taboos of our society. His paintings are pure provocation: a very pregnant Virgin Mary, for example, - naked.
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“Maria” oil on canvas 130x60cm
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The picture „On a summerday“ - shows a girl jumping from a skyscraper in New York into the depth of the street. “I want to portray the theme of death.”
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„On a summer day“ oil on canvas 100 x 80 cm
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Or the picture of the young boy, smiling and with a pistol in his hand aiming at a young girl. A violence, which could happen every day between kids.”
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“4 FEB. 98 oil on canvas 100 x 80 cm
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In former times Horst Deuter worked in T.V. business. He was director of big shows as “Disco” and “Starparade” or “Bio´s Bahnhof” and “Baden Badener Roulette”. Then he changed from the world of illusions to the hardest realities. He even bought a licence as a pilot when he was writing the script about illegal flying in Black Africa and transported goods, people’s arms and refugees for St. Lucia Airways. A lot of taboos and nobody to change it. All illusions lost.
His next step: from the jungle of the big African potentates to the American metropolis jungle. In the USA he discovered the “ready mades” and used them as a possibility of creating in an ironical-playful way.
In his New Jersey studio he paints glamour cover and illustrations for magazines and advertising.”
“Medienkanzler” oil on canvas 120 x 90 cm
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“Leroy und seine HARLEY” oil on canvas 80 x 120 cm
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Trivial-culture converts into source material. He integrates into his techniques the skills of the old masters when working at the “Art Student´s league” in New York, inclusive retrospective views of historical themes as „Salome“ or “Susanna in the bath” in a sense of Artemisia Gentileschi (1680) .
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“Susanna in the bath” oil on canvas 100 x 120 cm
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Gentileschi um 1680
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His motifs are not only inspired by light and colour, also by the dark side of life, even on sunny Mallorca. One example is the series “Nighthawks”, - details out of the normal red-light district the Mallorca Mustang Ranch, stripped of any eroticism.
Bordellszene,- “Mustang Ranch” oil on canvas 97 x 146 cm
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