2025 — Oil on canvas
80 × 60 cm — EUR 1.700,00 (net)
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Max Grote is a Hamburg-based painter whose work blends historical symbolism with intimate self-projection. His glossy oil paintings often resemble staged portrait photography, presenting himself in medieval or baroque-inspired costumes, armour, and ritualised poses. While these images carry an air of grandeur and theatricality, they are charged with personal vulnerability, exploring themes such as body image, emotional fragility, cycles of collapse and renewal, and the shifting construction of identity.
Grote introduces a disarming sense of humour. Ironic titles puncture the solemnity of his staged personas, softening the heaviness of historical references and turning self-portraiture into an arena where sincerity and play coexist.
Grote’s practice moves freely between the personal and the performative, embracing the tension between introspection and spectacle. His paintings propose a world where history becomes a costume, identity a shifting role, and vulnerability a form of strength.
2025 — Oil on canvas
80 × 60 cm — EUR 1.700,00 (net)
For further artwork information or purchase, please email us at contact@massoumi.art or reach out via our contact form.
Max Grote is a Hamburg-based painter whose work blends historical symbolism with intimate self-projection. His glossy oil paintings often resemble staged portrait photography, presenting himself in medieval or baroque-inspired costumes, armour, and ritualised poses. While these images carry an air of grandeur and theatricality, they are charged with personal vulnerability, exploring themes such as body image, emotional fragility, cycles of collapse and renewal, and the shifting construction of identity.
Grote introduces a disarming sense of humour. Ironic titles puncture the solemnity of his staged personas, softening the heaviness of historical references and turning self-portraiture into an arena where sincerity and play coexist.
Grote’s practice moves freely between the personal and the performative, embracing the tension between introspection and spectacle. His paintings propose a world where history becomes a costume, identity a shifting role, and vulnerability a form of strength.
