Corinne Wasmuht (born 1964) is a German

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based in

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."Corinne Wasmuht CV"
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Early life and education

Wasmuht was born in 1964 in

Dortmund Dortmund (; Westphalian nds, Düörpm ; la, Tremonia) is the third-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne and Düsseldorf, and the eighth-largest city of Germany, with a population of 588,250 inhabitants as of 2021. It is the la ...

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. From 1983 to 1992 she studied 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 ...

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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

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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 ...

on wooden boards, using many coats of

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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
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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 The August Macke Prize, named after the painter August Macke, was given the first time in 1959 by the districts Arnsberg, Brilon, Meschede and Olpe in the region of the Hochsauerland, Germany. With the award the recipients get the offer to show t ...

, 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 The Academy of Arts (german: Akademie der Künste) is a state arts institution in Berlin, Germany. The task of the Academy is to promote art, as well as to advise and support the states of Germany. The Academy's predecessor organization was fo ...

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