The Huffington Post

an interview with John Seed

The Bavarian-born, California-educated painter Ruprecht von Kaufmann is currently showing a suite of figurative paintings at the Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery in London. Irregular, collaged elements of his paintings sometimes burst across their rectangular boundaries, flowing across the gallery walls with Baroque enthusiasm. His dreamlike sequences—momentary glimpses of something else—offer viewers a moment of imaginative connection, and the chance to recognize fleeting and universal emotions. In essence, Von Kaufmann creates a realm of parallel universes that open up questions most painters wouldn’t even begin to know how to ask....keep reading

Elephant Magazine

by Lorna King

"When I paint, that's what I am looking for: to take something about the world, change it a little bit, break some of the logic and through that, crack open the veneer of habit." Attentive to the properties of space and material, Ruprecht von Kaufmann's work dissolves dimensional boundaries.....keep reading