Corinne Wasmuht
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{{short description|German artist}}
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| birth_place = Dortmund, Germany
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Corinne Wasmuht (born 1964) is a German visual artist based in Berlin.[http://prod-images.exhibit-e.com/www_petzel_com/CW_Master_CV.pdf "Corinne Wasmuht CV"], Petzel Gallery, Retrieved 24 December 2014.
Early life and education
Career
Wasmuht's work deals with issues such as globalization, economic crisis, the proliferation of technology, and modern warfare.{{Cite web|url=https://www.petzel.com/artists/corinne-wasmuht/biography|title = Corinne Wasmuht – Artists – Petzel Gallery}} She makes paintings in oil paint on wooden boards, using many coats of varnish to add to the brightness of the colours.{{Cite web |url=http://www.meyer-riegger.de/en/index.php?cat=archive&exhib_id=12 |title=Meyer-Riegger.de |access-date=23 March 2008 |archive-date=12 October 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012005824/http://www.meyer-riegger.de/en/index.php?cat=archive&exhib_id=12 |url-status=dead }} 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."[https://www.wsj.com/articles/chaos-and-awe-painting-for-the-21st-century-review-trying-to-corral-the-uncorralable-1530961201 Review] of "Chaos and Awe: Painting for the 21st Century" at the Frist Art Museum by Peter Plagens in The Wall Street Journal
Other activities
Wasmuht was part of the jury that awarded the Academy of Arts' Käthe Kollwitz Prize to Nan Goldin in 2022.[https://www.adk.de/de/news/index.htm?we_objectID=64123 Käthe-Kollwitz-Preis 2022 der Akademie der Künste geht an Nan Goldin] Academy of Arts, press release of 20 May 2022.[https://artreview.com/nan-goldin-to-receive-the-kathe-kollwitz-prize-2022/ Nan Goldin to receive the Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2022] ArtReview, 24 May 2022.
Art market
Honours and awards
- 1996: ars viva prize, Cologne
- 2008: Heitland Foundation, Celle
- 2011: Oberrheinischer Kunstpreis, Offenburg
- 2011: August Macke Prize, Meschede
- 2014: Käthe Kollwitz Prize by the Academy of Arts, Berlin
References
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External links
- Corinne Wasmuht on [http://www.artnet.com/artist/424527427/corinne-wasmuht.html ArtNet.com]
- Further information from the [http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/corinne_wasmuht.htm Saatchi Gallery]
- [http://www.berlinerposterverlag.com/009CW.html Corinne Wasmuht at Berliner Poster Verlag]
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Category:Artists from Dortmund
Category:20th-century German painters
Category:21st-century German painters
Category:Members of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
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