Combining pop imagery and hyper-coloured modern surrealism, Robert Deutsch creates ambiguous universes inhabited by unusual and eccentric characters questioning the darker aspects of contemporary life. By putting together strangely shaped cars, allegorical landscapes, and hooded, smiling figures, the language of illustration and comics blends with the vibrant expressionism of the early 20th century. While sharp irony is a constant, it is also true that Deutsch’s works always retain a sense of humanity that kindly involves us in the joke.

Robert Deutsch was born in Köthen and studied art and editorial graphics in Halle. His work recalls illustration, comics, and naive German art; while merging into the European iconographic tradition – among Flemish art, French caricature tradition, a “Bosch” alike tone, and Renaissance allegories – he renews the formal code with the imagery of 20th-century popular culture.

Since 2011, his works have been exhibited in numerous solo and collective exhibitions in Europe; he collaborates as an illustrator and graphic designer with many magazines and newspapers, including Le Monde Diplomatique, Monopol, Arte, American Collectors Art Magazine, Psychologie Heute, Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, Kuti, Strapazin, Page, Avant-Verlag, Spiegel Expedition, Brigitte Woman.