Paul Salvator Goldengreen (bon 27 August 1960 in

Warburg Warburg (; Westphalian language, Westphalian: ''Warberich'' or ''Warborg'') is a town in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia, central Germany on the river Diemel near the three-state point shared by Hessen, Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia. It ...

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) is an artist whose work originates in Art Brut /

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Life

After fifteen months of basic military training with the German Army at

Münster Münster (; nds, Mönster) is an independent city (''Kreisfreie Stadt'') in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is in the northern part of the state and is considered to be the cultural centre of the Westphalia region. It is also a state distr ...

and

Lüneburg Lüneburg (officially the ''Hanseatic City of Lüneburg'', German: ''Hansestadt Lüneburg'', , Low German ''Lümborg'', Latin ''Luneburgum'' or ''Lunaburgum'', Old High German ''Luneburc'', Old Saxon ''Hliuni'', Polabian ''Glain''), also calle ...

in 1980/81, he got the

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after 6 semesters from 1982 to 1984 at Westfalenkolleg in

Paderborn Paderborn (; Westphalian: ''Patterbuorn'', also ''Paterboärn'') is a city in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, capital of the Paderborn district. The name of the city derives from the river Pader and ''Born'', an old German term for t ...

. Beginning in autumn 1985, he studied Biology in Münster and

Bielefeld Bielefeld () is a city in the Ostwestfalen-Lippe Region in the north-east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With a population of 341,755, it is also the most populous city in the administrative region (''Regierungsbezirk'') of Detmold and the ...

. In 1991 he left Bielefeld and returned home. After the death of his mother he suffered a mental illness.

Work

Since April 2007 he has been featured in the permanent Internet exhibition, ''Gallery Of Inspiration'', organised by the

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(North America). In April 2007 he contributed 20 paintings to the first

market at the

Prinzhorn Prinzhorn is a surname. Notable people with the name include: *Hans Prinzhorn (1886–1933), German psychiatrist and art historian *Thomas Prinzhorn (born 1943), Austrian industrialist and politician See also *Prinzhorn Dance School, English roc ...

Collection,

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. His work ''Archaic Deity'' is part of the Prinzhorn Collection. The painting was shown in the group exhibition "The Collection Grows". Participation as guest in the "annual exhibition 2008 Outsider Art" in the Museum for Art Brut and Outsider Art as well as

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in the ,

, from 26 October 2008 to 11 January 2009.

External links

Official Website of the artist

profile at artecomunicarte
(Spanish)

(English) {{DEFAULTSORT:Goldengreen, Paul Salvator 20th-century German painters 20th-century German male artists German male painters 21st-century German painters 21st-century German male artists Outsider artists 1960 births Living people