Between 86 and 92 I run the Gallery "Abriss"(Demolition) at St.Pauli,Hamburg, a quarter of Bars , prostiutes, anarchy and squatters .
In the middle of the 70s I started to study art at the academie of Düsseldorf. Then a year of study in Amsterdam follows...
"With a subtle minimalistic approach, Pittjes Hitschfeld creates work in which a fascination with the clarity of content and an uncompromising attitude towards conceptual and minimal art can be found. The work is aloof and systematic and mostly a cool and neutral imagery is used. The rejection of classical painting with its backgrounds, perspectives and landscapes gives the objects depicted an appearance of size and monumentality up to the sacred, the mostly empty backgrounds contrast sharply with the detail and smoothness of the depicted.
It is a rejection of the primacy of reason and the principles of modernity, with its belief in progress, emphasised since the Enlightenment.
This makes him a clear representative of postmodernism."
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Ludwig Seyfarth,Art publicist and curator, Secretary General of the German section of the international art critics association AICA.
I paint not because i think i'm great at it; i paint because i think painting is great and i want to be a part of it.