Charline von Heyl (born 1960) is a German
abstract painter
Abstract art uses visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world.
Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19t ...
. She also works with drawing, printmaking, and collage. She moved to the United States in the 1990s, and has studios in New York City and in
Marfa, Texas
Marfa is a city in the high desert of the Trans-Pecos in far West Texas, between the Davis Mountains and Big Bend National Park. It is the county seat of Presidio County, Texas, Presidio County, and its population as of the 2010 United States Cens ...
.
Life
Von Heyl was born in
Mainz
Mainz () is the capital and largest city of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Mainz is on the left bank of the Rhine, opposite to the place that the Main (river), Main joins the Rhine. Downstream of the confluence, the Rhine flows to the north-we ...
and spent her childhood in
Bonn
The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr r ...
. Her father was a lawyer, her mother a psychologist.
[Diane Solway (August 19, 2013)]
Charline von Heyl: In the Abstract
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Hochschule für bildende Künste of
Hamburg
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under
Jörg Immendorff
Jörg Immendorff (14 June 1945 – 28 May 2007) was a German painter, sculptor, stage designer and art professor. He was a member of the art movement ''Neue Wilde''.
Early life and education
Immendorff was born in Bleckede, Lower Saxony, n ...
, and at the
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
The Kunstakademie Düsseldorf is the academy of fine arts of the state of North Rhine Westphalia at the city of Düsseldorf, Germany. Notable artists who studied or taught at the academy include Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Magdalena Jetelová, ...
under
Fritz Schwegler
Fritz Schwegler (7 May 1935 – 3 June 2014) was a German painter, graphic artist, sculptor and musician.
Life and work
Born in the Swabian town of Breech near Göppingen, Schwegler was first apprenticed as a joiner to his father. He then travele ...
. In the mid-1990s she moved to New York City, where she has a studio in the
Brooklyn Navy Yard
The Brooklyn Navy Yard (originally known as the New York Navy Yard) is a shipyard and industrial complex located in northwest Brooklyn in New York City, New York. The Navy Yard is located on the East River in Wallabout Bay, a semicircular bend ...
.
Work
In 2005, von Heyl's exhibition ''Concentrations 48: Charline von Heyl'' was held at the
Dallas Museum of Art
The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) is an art museum located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas, along Woodall Rodgers Freeway between St. Paul and Harwood. In the 1970s, the museum moved from its previous location in Fair Park to the Art ...
in
Dallas, Texas
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, USA, and in 2009, her work was exhibited in ''Le jour de boire est arrivé'' held at Le Consortium, a contemporary art center in
Dijon, France
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The earliest ...
.
In 2011-2012, von Heyl had two major traveling retrospectives. ''Charline von Heyl, Now or Else'' started at the
Tate Liverpool
Tate Liverpool is an art gallery and museum in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, and part of Tate, along with Tate St Ives, Cornwall, Tate Britain, London, and Tate Modern, London. The museum was an initiative of the Merseyside Development Corpo ...
in
Liverpool, England
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and subsequently traveled to the
Kunsthalle Nürnberg
The Kunsthalle Nürnberg is an art centre founded in 1967, near the city centre. It organizes exhibitions by contemporary international artists in its galleries in Nuremberg. The Kunsthalle commissions new work by a majority of the artists it wo ...
in
Nuremberg, Germany
Nuremberg ( ; german: link=no, Nürnberg ; in the local East Franconian dialect: ''Nämberch'' ) is the second-largest city of the German state of Bavaria after its capital Munich, and its 518,370 (2019) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest ci ...
and the Bonner Kunstverein in
Bonn, Germany
The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr r ...
. A second show, ''Charline von Heyl'', was exhibited within the United States at the
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) is an art museum and exhibition space located in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America. The museum was founded as the Boston Museum of Modern Art in 1936. Since then it has gone through multiple na ...
and the
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
The Institute of Contemporary Art or ICA is a contemporary art museum in Philadelphia. The museum is associated with the University of Pennsylvania, and is located on its campus. The Institute is one of the country's leading museums dedicated to e ...
.
In 2018, the
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is an art museum beside the National Mall, in Washington, D.C., the United States. The museum was initially endowed during the 1960s with the permanent art collection of Joseph H. Hirshhorn. It was des ...
exhibited the largest U.S. museum survey ever of von Heyl's work. Featuring more than thirty large-scale paintings, ''Charline von Heyl: Snake Eyes'' was extended due to its popularity at the museum.
Reception
Von Heyl was one of six finalists for the
2014 Hugo Boss Prize.
[Carol Vogel (December 12, 2013)]
Steve McQueen Among 6 Hugo Boss Prize Finalists
''The New York Times''.
References
Further reading
''Oranges and Sardines'' Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2009.
''Bomb, Number 113'' Bomb (Interview), 2010.
''Charline von Heyl Paintings 1990-2010'' Les presses du réel, 2010.
* ''Parkett, No. 89''. Parkett, 2011.
''Charline von Heyl'' Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, 2011.
* ''Charline von Heyl Now or Else''. Tate Liverpool and Kunsthalle Nürnberg, 2012.
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German abstract artists
German contemporary artists
Living people
1960 births
German women painters
People from Marfa, Texas
Artists from Bonn
Artists from New York City
21st-century German women artists