Matthias Beckmann (draftsman)

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Matthias Beckmann: Jason Rhoades , from the Flick Collection series , 2004, pencil on paper, 35.5 × 26.8 cm

Matthias Beckmann (born May 6, 1965 in Arnsberg ) is a German draftsman and graphic artist .

Career

From 1984 to 1990 Matthias Beckmann studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and was a master student of Franz Eggenschwiler . From 1990 to 1992 postgraduate studies at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart with Rudolf Schoofs followed . In 1998 he received a grant from the Kunstfonds Bonn Foundation and in 1999 the Casa Baldi grant . In 2001 he was in Paris on a grant from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. In 2010 Matthias Beckmann received the Albert Stuwe Prize for Drawing.

Matthias Beckmann is a member of the German Association of Artists and, along with Jörg Mandernach and Uwe Schäfer, a member of the Die Weissenhofer artist group . He lives in Berlin.

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In his series of drawings, Beckmann deals with places and institutions. The detailed, linear pencil drawings are created in front of the motif without any photographic aids. The German Bundestag in Berlin, Cologne's Romanesque churches, the Fraunhofer Institute in Stuttgart, a South German automobile factory, chambers of art and curiosities in Germany and Austria as well as various museums and collections are the settings for the sequences of images that were created with the creative means of film and photography Zoom , unusual sections , changes of perspective, top and bottom views . With a sense of humor, he confronts the public need for representation with observations from everyday life. His factual style of drawing knows no hierarchies or the distinction between what is important and what is insignificant. The sculpture in the museum is just as important as the fire extinguisher, the folding chair is taken just as seriously as the holy water font and the journalist's ill-fitting trousers are given the same attention as the face of the politician interviewed. In 2008 Beckmann made his first cartoon No Tricks . In cooperation with the Berlin writer Christoph Peters , the picture book Minga enchants the world was published by Luchterhand Verlag in 2009 .

Exhibitions

Public collections

Publications

  • Drawings . Text: Franz Joseph van der Grinten , State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, 1995
  • Ink flow . Text: Ingrid Leonie Severin, artothek Cologne, 1998
  • Home game . Texts: Stephan Berg, Christoph Peters , Kunstverein Arnsberg, 1999
  • Art Museum Bonn . Text: Christoph Schreier, Kunstmuseum Bonn, 2002
  • In the Von der Heydt Museum . Text: Sabine Fehlemann , Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal 2002
  • Churches . Texts: Beatrice Lavarini, Thomas Sternberg, German Society for Christian Art , Munich 2004
  • Matthias Beckmann . Text: Philippe van Cauteren, SMAK, Gent 2007
  • Drawing room Wunderkammer . Texts: Ursula Reinhardt, Thomas Müller-Bahlke , Gabriele Beßler, Ulm 2007
  • Entry of the Old Masters . Text: Christoph Peters, Swiridoff Verlag, Künzelsau 2008
  • Space, looks. The Berlinische Galerie in drawings . Text: Freya Mülhaupt, Berlinische Galerie, State Museum for Modern Art, Photography and Architecture, 2009
  • Before the renovation - a drawn foray through the Hessian State Museum in Darmstadt . with a story by Christoph Peters, Galerie Netuschil , Darmstadt 2009
  • Christoph Peters: Minga enchants the world . Pictures by Matthias Beckmann, Luchterhand, Munich 2009
  • Christoph Peters: Registered recording . With drawings by Matthias Beckmann, Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2013

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Members "B" / Matthias Beckmann (accessed on November 21, 2015)

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personal data
SURNAME Beckmann, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Arnsberg