Justine Otto (born 1974) is a German painter.

Life

Otto was born in Poland. In 1983, she moved to Germany. Between 1997 and 2000, she worked as a stage designer at the Municipal Theatre Frankfurt. In 1996, she studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts (

Städelschule The Städelschule (), Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, is a tertiary school of art in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It accepts about 20 students each year from 500 applicants, and has a total of approximately 150 students of visual a ...

) in

Frankfurt am Main Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its na ...

, and was a master student in professional free painting, where she studied with

Peter Angermann Peter Angermann (born 1945 in Rehau, Bavaria) is a German painter based in Nuremberg. Education and career Initially, from 1966 to 1968, Peter Angermann, who was born in 1945 in Rehau, a small town in Upper Franconia in Bavaria, studied at the ...

and Michael Krebber. In 2003, she graduated. Otto lives in Hamburg and Frankfurt.

Works

The central theme of her work are adolescent people and their feelings. Otto leaves its protagonists, mostly young girls, make puzzling actions. Otto takes a neutral observer position and confronts the viewer with the process of growing up. By soft merging into one another light and shadow zones interrupted by harsh color accents, it produces a strong vitality. This creates body landscapes that their characters a strong authenticity.

Awards

*2005: Volker-Hinniger Prize *2005: nominated for the Ernst Schering Foundation Art of the Ernst Schering Foundation *2011: Winner of the Art Prize of the Lüneburg Regional Association

Exhibitions

*1997: portico, Frankfurt *2001: Darmstadt Secession at the Mathildenhöhe / Darmstadt *2002: Exhibition Hall, Frankfurt am Main *2003: Städel, Frankfurt am Main *2006: Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich *2007: Kunstverein Aschaffenburg *2009: Collection Rusche, Schloss Corvey *2009: Collection Rusche, Museum Abbey Liesborn *2010: Bomann Museum *2011: Kunsthalle Darmstadt *2011: Kunsthalle Villa Kobe, Halle / Saale *2011: Museum Schloss Gifhorn *2012: Jesuit Church Art Gallery, Aschaffenburg

References

External links

Interview at Elemmental (Spanish)
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