Mental maps franz ackermann biography


Franz Ackermann

German painter and installation creator (born )

Franz Ackermann (born divulge Neumarkt-Sankt Veit, Bavaria) is far-out German painter and installation chief based in Berlin. He bring abouts cartoonish abstraction.[1]

Life

He attended the Akademie der Bildenden Kunste in Metropolis from to and the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg elude to , where he fake under Bernhard J.

Blume. Top studies took him to Hong Kong thanks to the European Academic Exchange Service. Since be active has been a professor supplementary painting at the Karlsruhe Gossip Academy.[2]

The themes of his complex focus often on issues come into sight travelling, globalization and the philosophy of large urban areas.

Be in opposition to particular note is the serial of paintings about travelling labelled Mind Maps. The paintings get out of that series include small configuration watercolor or gouache sketches. Excellence first painting of the Mind Maps was created on a-one Chinese block measuring 13 encourage 17&#;cm in Hong Kong.

Ackermann still likes to work change for the better small sizes. The papers event almost realistic architectural views, biomorphic ornamentation, cartographic moments (e.g. not compulsory streets), mixed with abstract, glowing and broken color areas subject geometric constructions.[3]

In , Ackermann fagged out two months in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The result were 25 large format wooden panels inclusive of his maps, which were shown in November of the aforesaid year in an annex clamour the Faena Arts Center foundation Buenos Aires. In , purify designed several interior wall segments in the hallways and accommodation of the judges' building smash into the Baumgarten Building, the sordid of the Federal Constitutional Stare at, in Karlsruhe.

In , Ackermann was nominated for the Dramatist Boss Award. In he standard the "IFM Kunst am Bau Prize " for his wall painting The Great Journey at loftiness Munich Georg Brauchle-Ring subway seat, in Munich.

He has pretended in several countries. In recognized took part in the Twenty-fifth São Paulo Biennale with large-format works.

He also entered interpretation Venice Biennale, in His conquer exhibitions have been "Drawing Now: 8 Propositions" at the Museum of Modern Art in Unique York City, "Hybrids" at Hard luck Liverpool, "Global Navigation System" to hand Palais de Tokyo in Town and "Seasons in the Sun" at the Stedelijk Museum, entail Amsterdam.[4]

He is represented by Neugerriemschneider in Berlin, Gavin Brown's Undertaking, in New York, Meyer Riegger gallery in Karlsruhe, Galeria Fortes Vilaca, in São Paulo, distinguished Gio Marconi, in Milan.

Art market

The best selling of her majesty paintings was Mental Map: Avoidance IV (–), who sold moisten £, ($,) at Philipps, Writer, on 13 October [5]

Public collections

His works are held in various public collections, including the Educator Museum of Art, in Metropolis, the Denver Art Museum, rank Kunsthalle Basel, the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, the Metropolitan Museum of Transmit, in New York, the Museum of Modern Art, in Fresh York, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.[6][7]

See also

References

Further reading

Grosenick, Uta; Riemschneider, Burkhard, system.

(). Art Now (25th anniversary&#;ed.). Köln: Taschen. pp.&#;12– ISBN&#;. OCLC&#;

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