One of Germany's most famous and talented contemporary painters, Peter Robert Keil’s dynamic shapes and impressive choice of colors are particularly popular with generations of collectors.  Known as The Wild Man of Berlin, Keil was one of the now infamous Neo-Expressionist ‘Grossen Wilden’ (Young Fauves), sharing the limelight with his friends and storied artists Elvira Bach, Rainer Fetting, and George Baselitz. As a young artist, Keil developed friendships with fellow artists Juan Miro, Andy Warhol, and while living and traveling in Spain, he would occasionally exchange comments on art with Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali.

Keil’s energetic artworks are primarily acrylic and oil-based paint on canvas, board, cardboard, ceramic and any other medium that will transport his vibrant primary colors and keen social commentary.  

Kiel’s inspiration is based on his view of man as an essentially social being: not restricted by convention or bound by narrow-minded moralistic self-righteousness, the impassioned painter is free to portray the reality of our often not-too-subtle interactions with other people in bars, on the streets, in flea markets, at work and at play in public places in both Europe and America.

While his gritty work does not serve to illustrate any illusions of candy-colored reality or empty vain beauty, Keil primarily centers his compositions on the human forms -faces, heads, figures and torso cutting to the heart of human emotion.