Near Field Paintings
Philipp Haager’s atmospheric, mostly large-format images are produced in a lengthy process of layering countless ink glazes onto water-soaked unprimed canvases. In a finely nuanced interplay of luminescence and opacity, light-flooded pictorial spaces open up – despite the often exclusive use of black and grey tones – that display a iridescence, perhaps conveying what Haager would call a memory of nature.
Nearfield Series, Sunrises & Sunsets
(The Life of my Friend), 2024/2026
150 x 150 cm, Indian ink, unprimed canvas
Nahfeld (Nearfield) Phase #33 (Iceland), 2025
170 x 240 cm, Indian ink, unprimed canvas
Nearfield Series, (Preserved Summer's Sunset)
Tagundnachtgleiche (Equinox), 2024/2026
150 x 150 cm, Indian ink, unprimed canvas
Nahfeld (Nearfield)-Series, The Postcard Nebulae
Preserved Sunsets (Apr 20pm), 2025
100 x 80 cm, Indian ink, unprimed canvas
Nahfeld (Nearfield)-Series, The Postcard Nebulae
Preserved Sunsets (Winter), 2025
100 x 80 cm, Indian ink, unprimed canvas
Nahfeld (Nearfield)-Series, The Postcard Nebulae
Preserved Sunsets (Jan 17pm), 2025
100 x 80 cm, Indian ink, unprimed canvas
Nahfeld (Nearfield)-Series, The Postcard Nebulae
Last summer's sunset (Aug 9pm), 2024
210 x 170 cm, Indian ink, unprimed canvas
Nahfeld (Nearfield) Phase #32
Once there were Rainbows again, 2022
180 x 220 cm, Indian ink, unprimed canvas
Nahfeld (Nearfield)-Series, The Postcard Nebulae
Winter sunset, 2024
210 x 170 cm, Indian ink, unprimed canvas
Nahfeld (Nearfield)-Series, The Postcard Nebulae
Last Summer’s Sunsets (Dusk, September 7pm), 2024
140 x 140 cm, Indian ink, unprimed canvas
Nahfeld (Nearfield)-Series, The Postcard Nebulae
Last summer’s sunsets (Dusk, January 4pm), 2024
140 x 140 cm, Indian ink, unprimed canvas
Nahfeld (Nearfield)-Series, The Postcard Nebulae
Asperg (Last Summer’s Sunset), 2024
140 x 140 cm, Indian ink, unprimed canvas
Nahfeld (Nearfield)-Series, Little Iceland, 2025
100 x 120 cm, Indian ink, unprimed canvas
Nahfeld (Nearfield)-Series, Hiking Homeland (Collective Landscape Experience), 2025
100 x 120 cm, Indian ink, unprimed canvas
Nahfeld (Nearfield)-Series, Phase #31
Dense Red Nebula (Ruby Scarlet), 2021/2022
120 x 160 cm, Indian ink, unprimed canvas
Nahfeld (Nearfield)-Series, The Postcard Nebulae,
Bottwartal (Hiking Homelands), 2024
140 x 140 cm, Indian ink, unprimed canvas
Nahfeld (Nearfield)-Series, 2020 / 2022
(Hiking Homelands)
80 x 120 cm, Indian ink, unprimed canvas
Nahfeld (Nearfield)-Series
Postcard Nebula (My Last Vacation), 2023
140 x 140 cm, Indian ink, unprimed canvas
Nahfeld (Nearfield) Phase #30
(Once there was Heaven again), 2021/2025
170 x 230 cm, Indian ink, raw unprimed linen
Nahfeld (Nearfield) Phase #29
German Landscape, 2021
140 x 140 cm, Indian ink, unprimed canvas
Nahfeld (Nearfield) Phase #28
Fields of Gold, 2021
180 x 220 cm, Indian ink, unprimed canvas
Nahfeld (Nearfield)-Series
Reihe Nahfeld, Postcards from Swabia
(Hiking homelands), 2021
100 x 120 cm, Indian ink, unprimed canvas
Nahfeld (Nearfield) Phase #27
The Green Eye, 2020
170 x 230 cm, Indian ink, raw unprimed linen
Nahfeld (Nearfield)-Series, 2020
Hiking Homelands
80 x 100 cm, Indian ink, unprimed canvas
Nahfeld (Nearfield) Phase #26
Turquoise Nebula, 2019
170 x 230 cm, Indian ink, raw unprimed linen
Nahfeld (Nearfield) Phase #25
Old Grey Nebula, 2018
170 x 150 cm, Indian ink, raw unprimed linen
Nahfeld (Nearfield) Phase #24
Old Rose Nebula, 2018
170 x 150 cm, Indian ink, raw unprimed linen
Nahfeld (Nearfield) Phase #23
Red Grey Nebula, 2015/2016
170 x 260 cm, Indian ink, raw unprimed linen
Nahfeld (Nearfield) Phase #22
Ancient Nebula, 2006/2016
180 x 210 cm, Indian ink, unprimed canvas
Nahfeld (Nearfield) Phase #07 / 5, 2014
140 x 140 cm, Indian ink, unprimed canvas
Nahfeld (Nearfield) Phase #21, 2014
150 x 160 cm, Indian ink, unprimed canvas
Nahfeld (Nearfield) Phase #07 / 3
(Between Heaven & Earth), 2014
150 x 160 cm, Indian ink, unprimed canvas
Nahfeld (Nearfield) Phase #20, 2014
110 x 180 cm, Indian ink, unprimed canvas
Nahfeld (Nearfield) Phase #19, 2014
110 x 180 cm, Indian ink, unprimed canvas
Nahfeld (Nearfield) Phase #18, 2014
150 x 250 cm, Indian ink, unprimed canvas
Nahfeld (Nearfield) Phase #17
180 x 210 cm, Indian ink, unprimed canvas
(painted over Pathiria Pangäa 2006 / Black Fog 2013, overpainted in 2016)
Misty Memory, 2013
190 x 210 cm, Indian ink, unprimed canvas
Nahfeld (Nearfield) Phase #16
Melting Memory (Green), 2011-2013
170 x 270 cm, Indian ink, raw unprimed linen
Nahfeld (Nearfield) Phase #15,
Melting Memory (Red), 2011-2013
170 x 270 cm, Indian ink, raw unprimed linen
Nahfeld (Nearfield) Phase #14, 2012/2013
180 x 220 cm, Indian ink, unprimed canvas
(painted over Medem, 2012)
Nahfeld (Nearfield) Phase #13, 2012/2013
180 x 220 cm, Indian ink, unprimed canvas
(painted over Massif Black, 2012)
Nahfeld (Nearfield),
Matter in suspension, 2013
150 x 250 cm, Indian ink, unprimed canvas
Nahfeld (Nearfield) series,
(between heaven & earth, Peter's Painting), 2013
100 x 120 cm, Indian ink, unprimed canvas
Nahfeld (Nearfield) Phase #07 / 2,
(between heaven & earth), 2013
150 x 160 cm, Indian ink, unprimed canvas
Nahfeld (Nearfield) Phase #12, 2012
150 x 140 cm, Indian ink, unprimed canvas
Nahfeld (Nearfield) Phase #11, 2012/2013
190 x 210 cm, Indian ink, unprimed canvas
Nahfeld (Nearfield) Phase #10,
Melting Memory (White), 2011/2012
210 x 270 cm, Indian ink, raw, unprimed linen
Nahfeld (Nearfield) Phase #07 / 4,
(Between Heaven & Earth), 2011
150 x 160 cm, Indian ink, unprimed canvas
Nahfeld (Nearfield) Phase #09, 2010
150 x 140 cm, Indian ink, unprimed canvas
Nahfeld (Nearfield) Phase #08, 2010
190 x 210 cm, Indian ink, unprimed canvas
Nahfeld (Nearfield) Phase #07, 2010
150 x 140 cm, Indian ink, unprimed canvas
Nahfeld (Nearfield) Phase #06, 2010
150 x 140 cm, Indian ink, unprimed canvas
Nahfeld (Nearfield) Phase #05, 2009/2010
190 x 210 cm, Indian ink, unprimed canvas
Nahfeld (Nearfield) Phase #04, 2009
190 x 210 cm, Indian ink, unprimed canvas
Nahfeld (Nearfield) Phase #03, 2009
190 x 210 cm, Indian ink, unprimed canvas
Nahfeld (Nearfield) Phase #02, 2009
190 x 210 cm, Indian ink, unprimed canvas
Nahfeld (Nearfield) Phase #01, 2008
210 x 190 cm, Indian ink, unprimed canvas
