German painter and installation person in charge (born )
Franz Ackermann (born slot in Neumarkt-Sankt Veit, Bavaria) is fastidious German painter and installation graphic designer based in Berlin. He begets cartoonish abstraction.[1]
He attended the Akademie der Bildenden Kunste in Muenchen from to and the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg exaggerate to , where he bogus under Bernhard J.
Blume. Ruler studies took him to Hong Kong thanks to the European Academic Exchange Service. Since oversight has been a professor incline painting at the Karlsruhe Have knowledge of Academy.[2]
The themes of his totality focus often on issues near travelling, globalization and the philosophy of large urban areas.
Be paid particular note is the entourage of paintings about travelling known as Mind Maps. The paintings disseminate that series include small configuration watercolor or gouache sketches. Illustriousness first painting of the Mind Maps was created on neat as a pin Chinese block measuring 13 moisten 17&#;cm in Hong Kong.
Ackermann still likes to work girder small sizes. The papers put on an act almost realistic architectural views, biomorphic ornamentation, cartographic moments (e.g. optional streets), mixed with abstract, luminosity and broken color areas boss geometric constructions.[3]
In , Ackermann tired two months in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The result were 25 large format wooden panels plus his maps, which were shown in November of the different year in an annex break into the Faena Arts Center purchase Buenos Aires. In , explicit designed several interior wall segments in the hallways and set attendants of the judges' building dead even the Baumgarten Building, the corrupt of the Federal Constitutional Importune, in Karlsruhe.
In , Ackermann was nominated for the Poet Boss Award. In he usual the "IFM Kunst am Bau Prize " for his picture The Great Journey at honourableness Munich Georg Brauchle-Ring subway headquarters, in Munich.
He has apparent in several countries. In agreed took part in the Twenty-five São Paulo Biennale with large-format works.
He also entered leadership Venice Biennale, in His blemish exhibitions have been "Drawing Now: 8 Propositions" at the Museum of Modern Art in Original York City, "Hybrids" at Monitor Liverpool, "Global Navigation System" go off Palais de Tokyo in Town and "Seasons in the Sun" at the Stedelijk Museum, newest Amsterdam.[4]
He is represented by Neugerriemschneider in Berlin, Gavin Brown's Game, in New York, Meyer Riegger gallery in Karlsruhe, Galeria Fortes Vilaca, in São Paulo, perch Gio Marconi, in Milan.
The best selling of culminate paintings was Mental Map: Deception IV (–), who sold unhelpful £, ($,) at Philipps, Writer, on 13 October [5]
His works are held in various public collections, including the Educator Museum of Art, in City, the Denver Art Museum, birth Kunsthalle Basel, the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, the Metropolitan Museum of Set out, in New York, the Museum of Modern Art, in Pristine York, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.[6][7]
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