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Provenance: Purchased for €22,000 in 2011 from Galerie Jochen Hempel
Price: $40,000 AUD
Baufreiheit (2011) is a large-scale architectural landscape by German painter Ulf Puder, a prominent figure associated with the New Leipzig School. Painted in oil on canvas and measuring 220 × 190 cm, the work exemplifies Puder’s distinctive visual language of speculative architecture and suspended structures set within enigmatic, atmospheric landscapes. Often devoid of human presence, these compositions evoke a quiet tension between construction and abandonment, where elements of modernist architecture intersect with a dreamlike spatial logic.
The painting was exhibited in the 2011 exhibition Boulevard at Galerie Jochen Hempel, Leipzig, a gallery closely associated with Puder’s career and the broader Leipzig painting movement. Works from this period represent a mature phase in the artist’s practice, characterised by controlled geometry, restrained colour, and subtly disquieting environments that define the contemplative architectural worlds for which he is recognised.
Puder belongs to the generation of painters that emerged from the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig following German reunification, a group whose work helped re-establish figurative painting in Europe and became internationally recognised as the New Leipzig School. Paintings of this scale from Puder’s mature period are typically presented through European and American galleries and form part of the established international market for Leipzig School painting.
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