Christian v. Grumbkow has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions including in Düsseldorf, Essen, Wuppertal, Karlsruhe, Cologne (Germany), Milan (Italy), Strasbourg (France), Breda, Amsterdam (Netherlands), New Mexico, Washington (USA) and South Tyrol (Italy). With many international collectors. In 2009 he received the Christa & Enno Springmann Culture Foundation Prize in Wuppertal.
Years of studying nature under Professor Rudolf Schools at the Wks/Ghs Wuppertal, provided an ideal basis for his artistic development: after all, it was ultimately an intensive school of perception, which over the years led him from landscape abstractions in drawing and painting to an intention- and motif-free play with color, in which, however, natural color moods also play a role. So not with a drawing pencil, but "out of the colour" he developed his paintings.
“My Inspiration comes from nature, the elemental force of storm, sea, desert and mountains. Or the quiet fjord, the sun-drenched forest. It is the light, it is the landscape, designed by the elements, that still deeply impresses me and always offers new food for my painting.”
“Go to the sea, walk along the beach, feel the wind and take the chance to realize that we are only guests in this world.”
“I feel I am most creative When I feel bad, when I am lovesick or otherwise. I have experienced defeats. Then the paint saves me, then I get started without a second thought. Then I "hit" expressive colour cascades on the canvas or on large handmade paper, to relieve the frustration, anxiety or depression banish. Later, I sort and organize, rework the chaos.”
“I don‘t paint a message, nor thoughts, I paint color…I must struggle for quality, for the essence of color, for mood, for balance or even for dissonance. But there has to be the viewer who in the process of viewing, in appreciating the painting, can experience something, can even experience himself .”
"Grumbkow's painting is rich in visual sensations and very binding in that; it seems casual, sometimes as if scurrying and seemingly temporary, as a snapshot, but in fact it is very precise and balanced in all parts. Only gradually does it become clear what could happen here. It is a painting between the lines. It transcends our experiences and creates images we think we know, but have never seen before."
Thomas Hirsch
"Von Grumbkow aims in his pictures for an ideal harmony between the polar forces, between action and contemplation." " In all these visual images not only the substance of the external world of things is lost, but also the understanding of the measurability of space and time dissolves in them, the colour is boundless."
