Martin Dammann

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Martin Dammann (* 1965 in Friedrichshafen ) is a German painter , photo and video artist and book author. He mostly works with watercolor paintings that have a photograph as their motif.

biography

After graduating from high school, Dammann studied from 1988 to 1992 at the University of the Arts in Bremen with W. Schmitz and R. Thiele. In 1992 he moved to the Hochschule für Künste in Berlin, where he studied with KH Hödicke until 1994 and with Katharina Sieverding in 1995 .

In 1995 he received the Elsa Neumann Scholarship from the State of Berlin (NaFöG), and in 1997 a DAAD scholarship for London. During this time Dammann also worked for the “Archive of Modern Conflict” and began to collect a collection of amateur photographs of soldiers from the First and Second World Wars . According to his own statements, his collection now comprises over 4 million artifacts . From this collection, in 2018, he put together a book that attracted much public attention, which shed light on the topic of “Crossdressing in the Wehrmacht” during the Second World War.

Dammann lives and works in Berlin.

Exhibitions

Martin Dammann's works have been shown at the Folkwang Museum , Essen (2001), the Konrad Adenauer Foundation , Berlin (2002) and at the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009). In 1997 he took part in the Hybrid WorkSpace project of Documenta X and the Werkleitz Biennale .

In 2009 he showed his work in an overview exhibition ( Stranger Friends ) in the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2017: No beautiful country, Barbara Thumm Gallery, Berlin
  • 2015: As a result of calm turmoil, Kunsthalle Nürnberg
  • 2005: Vanishing Point, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 2015: Fire and Forget. On Violence, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
  • 2013: Donation Florence et Daniel Guerlain, Center Pompidou, Paris
  • 2013: Goodbye Paradise - Landscape Pictures Yesterday and Today, Kunsthalle Osnabrück
  • 2000: Elisabetta Benassi and Martin Dammann, Museum of Modern Art, PS1, New York

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ artmap - Martin Dammann retrieved online on December 17, 2018 available online
  2. ↑ Cf. Brenda Strohmaier: The woman in the warrior. A book full of private photos from WWII suddenly adds bras and homoeroticism to a stereotypical image of the Wehrmacht, in: Welt am Sonntag No. 44, November 4, 2018, p. 65.
personal data
SURNAME Dammann, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, photo and video artist and book author
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedrichshafen