Glenn Brown

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Glenn Brown (* 1966 in Hexham , Northumberland ) is a British painter and sculptor who was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2000.

life and work

Glenn Brown was born in Hexam in 1966. From 1984 to 1992 he took courses at the Norwich School of Art, Bath College of Higher Education and Goldsmith's College in London. The work of Gerhard Richter was an important influence for him .

Brown appropriates themes from images created by living artists such as Frank Auerbach , Georg Baselitz and Howard Hodgkin as well as historically established artists such as Rembrandt van Rijn , Fragonard or Salvador Dalí , and gives them his own specific expression. Brown's paintings have a trompe l' oeil illusion in their style of painting. The title of the picture is not always understandable for the viewer, as is the name of a painting from 2001 by Joseph Beuys (after Rembrandt) , whose model was a painting of his son Titus by Rembrandt's assistants. “Maybe he really was an extroverted boy with an earring, necklace and hat - I like opposites,” said the artist about his work.

Loves of Shepherds (based on 'Double Star' by Tony Roberts)
Glenn Brown , 2000
Oil on canvas
219.5 × 336 cm
Tate Liverpool

Link to the picture
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There was some controversy about the Turner Prize in 2000, as his painting Loves of Shepherds was very similar to the 1973 science fiction illustration Double Star by artist Tony Roberts. This year the Turner Prize was awarded to the German Wolfgang Tillmans . Brown also appropriated individual room scene images from Chris Foss by copying and changing them in one case ( Exercise One (for Ian Curtis) , 1995), and in the other case leaving them completely unchanged ( Dark Angel (for Ian Curtis) , 2002 ), which resulted in a plagiarism charge . The resulting legal dispute was settled out of court.

Since 2008, Brown turned to earlier experiments with the screen-printing of etching to. With the help of the computer and the Photoshop software , he created his layered portraits by layering up to 15 portrait etchings and drawings by the etchers Rembrandt, Urs Graf and Lucian Freud and manipulating them digitally until a new work was created. After transferring to the printing plate and printing, the originals show through to a certain extent. He calls them "my schizophrenic portraits".

In 2009, Brown claimed it was nonsense to make paintings from scratch. Pictures are like languages. It is impossible to produce a picture that is not borrowed. “Even the pictures in your dreams relate to reality.” The public-shy painter - he generally does not allow himself to be photographed - has his studio in East London in a former school, the Rochelle School. Studio neighbors include Michael Raedecker and Goshka Macuga , who were also both nominated for the Turner Prize.

Works (selection)

  • 1995/2007: The Sound of Music (plastic, painting table in the studio)
  • 2002: On Hearing of the Death of my Mother
  • 2001: Joseph Beuys (after Rembrandt)
  • 2006: The Great Masturbator
  • 2006: The Hinterland
  • 2008: Burlesque
  • 2008: Layered Portrait (after Rembrandt)
  • 2008: Wooden heart (painted plastic made of wood and metal)

Exhibitions (selection)

literature

  • Tom Morton: Glenn Brown , Holzwarth Publications, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-935-56735-0
  • art. The art magazine . July 2009, pp. 42-49

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Pietsch in art , July 2009 p. 49
  2. ^ Copycat row hits Turner Prize, November 28, 2000. Retrieved June 9, 2009 .
  3. ↑ Hans Pietsch in art , July 2009 p. 49
  4. ↑ Kent, Sarah. Putrid Beauty. Modern Painters, May 2009
  5. ↑ Hans Pietsch in art , July 2009 p. 46
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personal data
SURNAME Brown, Glenn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Hexham