Holger Lippmann - Pictures, Art, Photography

Holger Lippmann

Intro Bio Exhibitions

Tree IV

Tree IV

Holger Lippmann
Rose Cherry I

Rose Cherry I

Holger Lippmann
Recursive Tree XI

Recursive Tree XI

Holger Lippmann
Tree II

Tree II

Holger Lippmann

Background Information about Holger Lippmann

Introduction

ABOUT THE WORK

Rose Cherry

In Japanese culture, cherry blossoms embody beauty, awakening, and transience. Their symbolic power is clearly expressed in Holger Lippmann’s digital work. From soft pinks to deep reds, Lippmann creates a sea of cherry blossoms in a wave of colour, celebrating his own hanami through his images.

And like the hanami, the traditional Japanese cherry blossom festival, Lippmann’s work inspires joyful and melancholic emotions at the same time. The digital artist stylistically and graphically reinterprets the cherry blossoms. A classically trained painter, he has traded his physical drawing implements for computer programs.

Recursive Trees

In his Recursive Trees series, Holger Lippmann uses digital means to capture the magic of blooming cherry blossom trees. In contrast to Rose Cherry, the depicted blossoms feel more powerful than delicate and playful. The branches give the images structure and weight. The extraordinary composition in Lippmann’s pieces quotes from traditional Japanese painting, impressively illustrating how captivating and emotional Japan can be during cherry blossom season.

Language of Landscape

Humans allegedly began creating the first mosaics 400,000 years ago. As one of the most advanced digital artists of our times, Holger Lippmann knows how to implement this ancient technique in a very special way. In his Language of Landscape series, he creates extremely modern masterpieces with inlaid landscapes in which the valleys, hills, and villages can only be recognised at a distance. It is clear that his creations originate on the computer.

The angular building blocks that make up the image are reminiscent of pixels, colourful pieces arranged into patterns. With their help, Lippmann creates aesthetic worlds that seem both abstract and full of life. Lippmann’s work falls somewhere in between artistic disassociation and realistic reproduction, between old values and modern perspectives.

La Forêt

These woods give off a thrilling air of mystery. Although they are clearly recognisable for what they are, the trees have little in common with reality. They indicate a future perfection we cannot even imagine yet. Holger Lippmann’s images in the La Forêt series settle somewhere between nature and virtual reality.

The futuristic tree trunks, the perplexing colours, the mystical light, the bold shadows, and the floral patterns come together in these extraordinary compositions. The series La Forêt evokes a whole range of emotions: fascination, curiosity, and also a slight fear of the unknown. The familiar seems strange while the foreign seems familiar. It appears nearly impossible to tear yourself away from this vision of another world.

Crimson and Scarlet

From a distance, the floral worlds in Holger Lippman’s Crimson and Scarlet series appear like a digitized natural spectacle. Upon closer inspection, the finer details become clear. Curving branches flow through the entire artwork like life-giving veins. Between them, crimson and scarlet flowers blossom in front of a soft, mauve background. While the interplay between the colors is already captivating enough, there is another layer to discover in that Lippman has outlined every single petal with his virtual brush. The blossoms in the foreground have contours in powerful white and red hues, in the middle there are individual petals with contrasting shades like sky blue, turquoise, and neon green. The artist lets the color accents in the background quietly fade away.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Extremely sought-after for his art, which he has dubbed “e-art”, Holger Lippmann has been featured in numerous exhibitions. Born in 1960, he studied painting and sculpting in Dresden and Stuttgart, before moving on to develop his own computer drawing software.

Lippmann’s images range from representational subjects like flowers to geometric figures to superimposed matrix structures. Although essentially abstract, Lippmann’s work is always connected to the concrete.

TECHNIQUE

Digital or Computer-Aided Painting

When trained painter Holger Lippmann picks up a brush, he feels as though something is missing: the abundance of possibilities he can almost instantaneously run through using his computer program. And if, among them, Lippmann does not find an idea worth developing, he can always simply go back to square one. This is a creative luxury of his own design.

Holger Lippmann developed the computer drawing programs for his own work. With them, he composes delicate structures and abstract geometrical patterns he can layer and vary. The LUMAS pieces are based on a special program, in which the artist set a range of parameters to regulate the scattering of the geometrical elements. Lippmann then unites different compositions made in this way into cohesive pieces. “My internal process is the same as it was when I was working with paint and canvas,” Lippmann explains. “That’s why I call my current work digital or computer-aided painting.”

Like music, my work is born of improvisation.
Holger Lippmann

Bio

1960born in Mittweida, Germany
1985-90Graduated in Fine Arts - Sculpture at the Art Academy, Dresden
1990-92Student of the master class of Professor Klaus Schwabe, Art Academy, Dresden
1991Scholarship of Baden-Wuerttemberg/ Germany, post-graduate at the Art Academy, Stuttgart
Scholarship at Institut des Hautes Etudes en ArtsPlastiques, Paris, with Pontus Hulten, Daniel Buren, Sarkis
1992Internship at the Institute of Technology, New York / Department of Computer Art
1992-94lives in Brooklyn, New York
1997-98Post-graduate in Multimedia Education at CIMdata, Berlin
lives and works in Wandlitz, Germany

Awards

2002POPULAR, Animations 4 electronic music, Karlsruhe, Germany
Bildercodes, International media art award
1997CD-ROM Preis, Cynet art, Dresden, Germany

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

Single Exhibitions
2011Poetic justice & digital rights, gallery Wolkenbank, Rostock, Germany
2009Algebra Azalea Studio, Schauplatz Second Life
2008Take These Flowers, gallery Kasten, projectspace 4, Mannheim, Germany
2007Matter of substraction, media ruimte bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
Meta Refresh, DAM Berlin, Germany
2005Run into flowers, DAM Berlin, Germany
2004Minimal garden, DAM Berlin, Germany
2003In images we trust, gallery Silberblau, Berlin, Germany
2001Digitale Tapeten, Art Forum, Berlin, Germany
1999Neo geometrische Kunst, Art Basel Media Art, gallery Gebr. Lehmann, Basel, Switzerland
1993Sentimentalismo, gallery Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden, Germany
Grüß Gott, Galerie Ingrid Haar, Mönchengladbach, Germany
1992Fern - Seh - Raum, gallery Autogen, Dresden, Germany
Mathematik und Melancholie, gallery Ingrid Haar, Moenchengladbach, Germany
1991Sans Titre, gallery Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden, Germany
1989B.S.I.G, gallery Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden, Germany
Group Exhibitions
2011B/w borderline galleria espoonsilta, Espoo, Helsinki, Finland
Just printed, gallery module2, Dresden, Germany
Menschenbilder "Grosse Kunstschau Worpswede", Germany
Leistungsschau, Kunsthalle Berlin, Germany
Der Lauf Der Dinge, long night of videoart, Galerie Ruhnke, Potsdam, Germany
2010Ohne uns! Art & alternative culture in Dresden before und after ‘89, Dresden, Germany
2009Dasistmeinsunddasistdeins, gallery Wolkenbank, Rostock, Germany
2008Masterplan, Abel Neue Kunst, Berlin, Germany
Kunstinvasion, Kunsthalle Berlin, Germany
Beyond the screen, DAM  Berlin, Germany
File, electronic languge international festival, Porto Alegre, Brasil

 

Share, Manufacturing, Festival of art and digital culture, Torino, Italy
2007

 

Achtung Sprengarbeiten, NGBK Berlin, Germany
2006

 

Flowers, flowers in contemporary art, H. Voigt gallery, Kunstmuseum Heidenheim, Germany

 

Out of disaster, Brotfabrik Berlin, Germany

 

Toronto Project, Goetheinstitut Toronto, Canada
2005

 

Total kaputt, ABEL neue Kunst, Berlin, Germany
2004

 

TRIPTYQUE, Abbaye du Ronceray, Angers, France
Glue Präsentiert, Galerie Glue Berlin, Germany
Du und dein garten, Kunsthaus Erfurt, Germany
2002Werkzeuge und Einheiten, Berlin Frankfurter Allee 3, Germany
2000A ourssm, Kunst Akademie, Dresden, Germany
1999DID, das kollektive ICH, Kunst Akademie, Dresden, Germany
1998ACHSE3zu01, Kunst Akademie, Dresden, Germany
Sächsische Kunstausstellung, Schloss Dresden, Germany
1994Kunst in Deutschland, Bonn, Germany
1992Export import, Gallery Ränitzgasse, Dresden, Germany
Vier II, Leonhardi Museum, Dresden, Germany
1991Vom Balkon Europas, gallery Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden, Germany

Group Exhibitions

2007-200814.11. - 11.01., URBAN TRANSIENCE, Goethe Institut Rotterdam (NL)
 200719.10. - 02.12., Achtung Sprengarbeiten, NGBK Berlin
14.09. - 20.10., URBAN TRANSIENCE, ABEL neue Kunst
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Pink

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Hierbas 3

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A Gathering of Peonies

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Peach Blossom

Peach Blossom

Christine Jaschek
Eden Project

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Olaf Hajek
Cherry Blossom

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AT THE BEACH

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Die Gedankenreise

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Flourish

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Tondo 1

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Paradise garden 3

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wood_0026

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Eden III.

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Katalin Vasali
The Secret Cypress Swamp

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Infrared Lake Braies I

Infrared Lake Braies I

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The Big Cypress Bayou

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Weststrand, Darss

Weststrand, Darss

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Elusive Paradise

Elusive Paradise

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Too much like Hard Work

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Green Dresden

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Anton Sparx
The Apartment House

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The Secret Path

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Baltic Sea

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Sunset in Midtown NYC

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Blossom I

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Christiane Zschommler
Oak No 2

Oak No 2

Noel Myles
Hierbas 1

Hierbas 1

Jose Ramon Ais
Summer breeze

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Jesper Krijgsman
Dusk Blossom II

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Only In Your Heart 02

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Tears of Joy

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Cactus Abstraction 01

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A Short Film of December

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Banyan Tree

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Empire revisited

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In Full Bloom III

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Purple Heart

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Cabin

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Tokio, Roppongi

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Andrej Barov
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House of Friends

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Colour Weg

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Inna Wegener
Yearning

Yearning

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Tokio, Asakusa

Tokio, Asakusa

Andrej Barov
Fire

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Please Don´t Faint

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Omnipresent

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Traffic Sand

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SALT WORKS II

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Sylt

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NY Projection LVII

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Big Tree 2

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Olaf Hajek
Rosen 104

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Kris Scholz
Päpstliche Vernunft

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Gerhard Mantz
Single I Homage to Veruschka

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Dragon's Breath

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"bloom v7.5"

"bloom v7.5"

René Twigge
Dream River 04

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BK D55629 THE QUEEN

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SALT II

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Tom Hegen
Tidal Paintings II

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Kevin Krautgartner
Pulse Flash

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Beatrice Hug
Arcoditrionfoaliricamato

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Mirador

Mirador

Josh Von Staudach
BK D27852 UNTITLED

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Bettina Krieg
Sakura, Kyoto, Japan

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David Burdeny
Screen Time

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Stephen Haley
Purple Glow

Purple Glow

Beatrice Hug
Cactus Abstraction 04

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Ed Freeman
Urban Decay

Urban Decay

Omar Senada
Infinite Mirror, Portland, OR

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Andrea B. Stone
BK D67262 RHYTHM IS A DANCER

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Bettina Krieg
Red Sky in the Arctic

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Floating Red

Floating Red

Beatrice Hug
Salt Shapes VI

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Kevin Krautgartner
Kaleidoscopic View I

Kaleidoscopic View I

Anton Sparx
Photoscribe

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Penelope Davis
BK D55632 UNTITLED

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Bettina Krieg
Yellow

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Magdalena Sadziak
Salt Shapes II

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Kevin Krautgartner
Pulse Sand

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Beatrice Hug
The Sun

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Braganza

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Anton Sparx
Glitter Eye

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"bloom v7.1"

"bloom v7.1"

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Rosen 102

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Kris Scholz
Momiji (Japanese maple)

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Yumiko Kayukawa
Spring Storm

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Christine Jaschek
No Taigaa (Imagine there is no tiger)

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Yumiko Kayukawa
Cactus No. 94

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Kwangho Lee
Sparks

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Jesper Krijgsman
Up To The Sky

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Isabelle Menin
Single III Homage to Veruschka

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Dallae Bae
Taki (Water fall)

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Yumiko Kayukawa
Lizard Tongue

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Orlanda Broom
Vanitas XI

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Rare Splash

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Inna Wegener
"bloom v7.2"

"bloom v7.2"

René Twigge
Florescence XX

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"bloom v7.6"

"bloom v7.6"

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Botanical Sensuality

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