Here Comes The Sun, Stuttgart 2019 2019

Tina Trumpp

Archival pigment printPrintInkjet PrintFine Art paper printPhotographic print
ConditionOriginal
€ 6.000 - 22.000

TINA TRUMPP

• About the artwork
  Museum Archival Print:
  60×45 cm (Edition of 25 + 3 AP), €6,000
  80×60 cm (Edition of 15 + 2 AP), €9,000
  120×90 cm (Edition of 10 + 2 AP), €13,000
  180×135 cm (Edition of 5 + 2 AP), €22,000
  
  This photograph moves within the tradition of contemporary nude art and nude photography, in which the human body is understood not as an object, but as a central means of expressing form, light, and perception. In the work of photographic artist Tina Trumpp, nude art becomes a quiet, precise investigation of presence—reduced to lines, planes, and rhythms, and simultaneously in a fascinating dialogue with the iconic visual language of Helmut Newton.
  
  Light plays a central role in this fine art nude photography. It enters the frame gently, like a slow arrival, touching the body with a softness that contrasts with Helmut Newton's often clear, graphic lighting. While Newton is known for his cool, direct staging, Tina Trumpp develops a calmer, more introspective form of nude art based on reduction and atmosphere.
  
  Within this nude art composition, nothing is fully revealed, but rather deliberately made visible. The nude photography thrives on the balance between presence and restraint—contours emerge through light, disappear again in shadow, and form a visual language that is both precise and poetic. The structural clarity is reminiscent of classic approaches to nude photography, as pioneered by Helmut Newton, but is transformed into a softer, contemporary aesthetic.
  
  In this form of nude photography, the body appears neither idealized nor dramatized. Tina Trumpp's nude art presents the human body as a calm, natural form in space—less staging, more perception. Especially in comparison to Helmut Newton, it becomes clear how the visual language shifts from provocative power to quiet intensity.
  
  The photograph embodies the mood of Here Comes the Sun—a sense of renewal, quiet hope, and subtle transformation. Within this contemporary nude art, the body becomes a landscape, shaped by light, while the light itself becomes a form of touch.
  
  In this interplay of light, body, and space, a restrained intimacy emerges, characteristic of Tina Trumpp's nude photography. A moment that feels both present and timeless—and carries on the tradition of nude art and nude photography from Helmut Newton into the present day.
• About the artist

  Award-winning fine art photographer Tina Trumpp was born in 1974 in Stuttgart, Germany. Her artistic journey led her to Italy, Spain, and France, where she lived and worked for many years. With her multiple recent international exhibitions, Tina Trumpp is under the spotlight of the contemporary photo art.

  NUDE ART PHOTOGRAPHY
  One of the few women in fine art / nude art photography, she has crafted a personal style where female nude is more than just a motif; Breathing with the gentle spirit of modern feminisim, her fine art prints are an ode to women and their sensitive beauty. Using natural lighting and soft lines, Trumpp offers a fresh perspective on nudity. Imbued with tranquil self-confidence, her muses possess a natural feeling of respectful elegance, highlighted by strength and breathtaking beauty. Often depicted in the muffled intimacy of their private spaces, they carelessly unveil their femininity while silently lost in deep thought. Are they reminscing the memories of a long-lost lover? Or waiting for one to return? Trumpp's seductive images trigger a narrative based on thoughtful emotions rather than primary instincts.

  LANDSCAPES- AND NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY
  Just as the great painters of all eras found their motifs in nature, she also devotes part of her photo art to this genre. Her ideal landscapes are presented in a majestic and magnificent way in the style of Caspar David Friedrich where the viewer is asked to reflect on these vast, enigmatic expanses and secret spaces of nature. The expanse of the sea for exampe invites to think, but at the same time opens up the possibility of letting thoughts flow freely. Her photo art explores the space between photography and painterly expression. Instead of simply capturing reality, Tina’scontemporary art photography becomes a surface for color, light, texture, and gesture. Through soft rendering, layered compositions, and an intuitive use of light, her photo art begins to resemble a painting rather than a traditional photograph.

  PAINTINGS
  In addition to photography, Tina Trumpp began painting in oil in 2022 and working with watercolor. These modern paintings open up spaces of radical freedom.
  While in her photography often involves the careful planning of every detail, the paint in techniques such as the squeegee technique escapes this control. It moves, flows, and resists intention. From this interplay of chance and gesture, the unexpected emerges—something new that cannot be fully planned. It is precisely in this that a new creative quality arises.
  During her residency in Marrakech in 2025, she painted Jardins de Marrakech, a captivating cycle of 35 watercolors that bring the local flora to life in radiant, glowing hues. Inspired by the vibrant atmosphere of Marrakech, this series explores the emotional power of color and movement. The city’s warm ochres, deep reds, and luminous blues become a starting point for a painterly process that embraces spontaneity and chance.

  CYANOTPES
  Tina also enjoys working with historical photographic processes, such as cyanotypes. Through this technique, she has created unique works featuring plants and butterflies from her own garden. The preservation of biodiversity in an insect-friendly garden is particularly close to her heart, and over time her garden has also become a refuge for many hedgehogs.
  Just like painting or sculpture, a garden can be a form of art and provides her with organic shapes, textures, and structures that she arranges carefully on paper. For Trumpp, plants from gardens are more than decorative elements. They act as records of living nature. When exposed to light in the cyanotype process, the plants leave their impressions on the paper, preserving their forms in a way that feels both scientific and poetic. This transformation encourages viewers to look more closely at nature, revealing the hidden beauty of everyday plants found in gardens. Through these cyanotypes, the viewer glimpses the most intimate sphere surrounding Tina Trumpp — a realm she inhabits and profoundly loves.

  SOLO EXHIBITIONS
  Prolab Fotofachlabor (Germany) 2024
  TAFELBERG Nürnberg (Germany) 2024
  Leica Gallery Stuttgart (Germany) 2020/2021
  Leica Gallery Salzburg (Austria) 2020
  Galerie Stöckle Hauser (Germany) 2018
  Leica Store Rome (Italy) 2018
  Leica Gallery Porto (Portugal) 2018
  Prolab Fotofachlabor (Germany) 2017

  ART FAIRS/ GROUP EXHIBITIONS
  art KARLSRUHE / Prolab (Germany) 2024
  PAN Amsterdam / Koster Fine Art (Netherlands) 2023
  Galerie Schlichtenmaier, Schloss Dätzingen (Germany) 2023
  art KARLSRUHE / Galerie Schlichtenmaier (Germany) 2023
  PAN Amsterdam / Koster Fine Art (Netherlands) 2022
  Petra Gut Contemporary, Zurich (Switzerland) 2022
  Galerie Schlichtenmaier, Schloss Dätzingen (Germany) 2022
  Haute Photographie Rotterdam / Koster Fine Art (Netherlands) 2022
  PAN Amsterdam / Koster Fine Art (Netherlands) 2021
  Galerie29, Starnberg (Germany) 2020/2021
  immagis fine art photogaphy, Munich (Germany) 2020
  Petra Gut Contemporary, Zurich (Switzerland) 2020
  art KARLSRUHE (Germany) 2020
  immagis fine art photogaphy, Munich (Germany) 2019
  Galerie Werkhallen // Obermann // Burkhard, Sylt (Germany) 2019
  Opiom Gallery, Opio (France) 2018
  A.galerie, Paris (France) 2018
  ART PARIS Grand Palais (France) 2018

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