Matthias Sturm
Matthias Sturm (born August 22, 1969 in Eisenach ) is a German-born visual artist and avant-garde musician.
Life
Sturm broke off the Dresden art college after a falling out with the professors and worked from then on as an autodidact . After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1990, the first exhibitions took place in West Germany. Numerous personal exhibitions in Germany are followed by other solo exhibitions in the USA . The oeuvre of this gestural-expressive, figurative painting, in a printing technique kept secret by the artist, with its symbol-laden scenarios often deals with early childhood trauma and is influenced by German Expressionism and Italian Transavanguardia . From 1993 he was represented by the renowned gallery owner Michael Pabst in his exhibition series Pocket Gallery until his death in Munich . Sturm currently lives and works at Château des Fougis in Thionne , France .
Collections (selection)
- Deutsche Bank Collection
- Westheimer Family Collection, Oklahoma (Oklahoma City Museum of Art)
- Dallas Museum of Art
- State Art Collections Dresden Art Fund Saxony
- New Berlin Art Association
- Saxon State Chancellery, State Government of Saxony
Solo exhibitions (selection)
- 1992 Gutenberg Book Guild, Wiesbaden
- 1994 Gallery at Haagtor, Tübingen
- 1996 Engelbrecht private gallery, Hamburg
- 1997 Galerie Lochte, Hamburg
- 1998 Galerie Pabst, Munich
- 1998 Stone by Stone Gallery, Dallas
- 1999 Stone by Stone Gallery, Dallas
- 1999 Witt & Boltom, Baltimore
- 2000 Stone by Stone Gallery, Dallas
Group exhibitions (selection)
- 1991 Agony of the gallery Schauspielhaus Dresden, 1991
- 1992 Art 7 Nuremberg (Sauer Gallery)
- 1992 Art Cologne (Sauer Gallery)
- 1993 All seven Art Pont & Saxony Economic Development Corporation, Dresden
- 1993 From Schiele to Beuys Galerie Michael Pabst, Munich
- 1993 Pocket Gallery Galerie Michael Pabst, Vienna
- 1994 Flags East - West International Jazz Festival East-West, Meistersingerhalle, Nuremberg
- 1994 small formats of the XX. Century , Galerie Pabst, Munich
- 1997 Galerie Lochte, Hamburg
- 1999 Accrochage Stone by Stone Gallery, Dallas
- 1997–2008 small formats of the XX. Century , Galerie Pabst, Munich
Individual evidence
- ↑ Artist directory of the Pabst Gallery. Retrieved April 2, 2010 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Matthias Sturm in the catalog of the German National Library
- Matthias Sturm at Gallery Poll Berlin [1]
- For heaven's sake , dallasobserver.com, August 6, 1998, by Christina Rees
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sturm, Matthias |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German visual artist and avant-garde musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 22nd August 1969 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eisenach |