Corinne Wasmuht
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Corinne Wasmuht (born 1964) is a German visual artist based in
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Early life and education

Wasmuht was born in 1964 in
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. From 1983 to 1992 she studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in
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Career

Wasmuht's work deals with issues such as globalization, economic crisis, the proliferation of technology, and modern warfare. She makes
painting Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ...
s in
oil paint Oil paint is a type of slow-drying paint that consists of particles of pigment suspended in a drying oil, commonly linseed oil. The viscosity of the paint may be modified by the addition of a solvent such as turpentine or white spirit, and varn ...
on wooden boards, using many coats of
varnish Varnish is a clear transparent hard protective coating or film. It is not a stain. It usually has a yellowish shade from the manufacturing process and materials used, but it may also be pigmented as desired, and is sold commercially in various ...
to add to the brightness of the colours. Her images consist of layered fictional environments that reference abstract painting. Wasmuht paints all elements of her complexly layered and graphic paintings entirely by hand. Of her ''Bibliotheque/CDG-BSL'' (2011), Peter Plagens said: "As is often the case, a single work can represent the thrust of a show. Here it's Corinne Wasmuht's enormous triptych... It's a daunting painting... Its wildly varying scale (partial human figures five feet tall to some no more than little clots of paint) and institutional glare are supposed to say something, one assumes, about the socially, politically and culturally overwhelmed and unmoored state in which we currently exist."


Art market

Wasmuht was represented by Johann König until 2022.Alex Greenberger (28 November 2022)
Artists and König Galerie Cut Ties Amid Allegations Against Founder Johann König
'' ARTnews''.


Select exhibitions

1999 *''Neues Gestirn'', Consortium Amsterdam, Amsterdam *''Damenwahl'' (with Jason Rhoades), Kunsthalle Bremen *''European Factory'', Galleria darte moderna Bologna, Bologna 2001 *''Musterkarte'', Palacio Conde Duque, Madrid 2003 *Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden *''Aus dem Archiv'', Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg 2004 *''Wandbild'', Projektraum Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin *''Contemporary Art from Germany'', Europäische Zentralbank, Frankfurt 2005 *''Vanishing Point'', Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio 2008 *Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York 2010 *Kunsthalle Nurnberg 2011 *Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria 2014 *Kunsthalle Kiel, Germany 2015 *Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York 2016 *SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia 2017 *Kunstmuseum Stuttgart


Honours and awards

* 1996: ars viva prize, Cologne * 2008: Heitland Foundation, Celle * 2011: Oberrheinischer Kunstpreis, Offenburg * 2011: August Macke Prize, Meschede * 2014:
Käthe Kollwitz Prize The Käthe Kollwitz Prize (german: Käthe-Kollwitz-Preis) is a German art award named after artist Käthe Kollwitz. Established in 1960 by the then-Academy of Arts of the German Democratic Republic (nowadays the Academy of Arts, Berlin), the pri ...
by the Academy of Arts, Berlin


References


External links

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Living people 1964 births Artists from Berlin Artists from Dortmund 20th-century German painters 21st-century German painters Members of the Academy of Arts, Berlin {{Germany-painter-stub