Yves Oppenheim

Yves Oppenheim (* 1948 in Tananarive , Madagascar ) is a French painter.

life and work

Yves Oppenheim moved to Paris at the age of 20 and began studying art there. He tried various forms of artistic expression for around ten years before turning to painting again around 1983/84.

Oppenheim prefers large-format, room-filling works that he designs on the computer and that are characterized by the strict, two-dimensional composition of strong color fields. Henri Matisse , Barnett Newman , Frank Stella and Jeremy Moon are among Oppenheim's role models.

Oppenheim lives and works in Paris and since 2001 in Berlin . Since 1988 he has had several solo exhibitions a. a. in Paris, Brussels , New York , Lisbon , Athens , Geneva and Berlin. He is represented by the Max Hetzler Gallery .

Works in public collections

• Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
• Center Georges-Pompidou , Paris
• Carré d'Art , Nîmes
• FRAC - Paris
• FRAC - Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier
• Musée des Beaux Arts, Dole
• Musée de Chateauroux, Chateauroux

Exhibition catalogs

• Suzanne Pagé, Laurence Bossé, Béatrice Parent: Yves Oppenheim. Exposition 28 avril - 26 juin 1988. ARC Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris 1988, OCLC 494056163 .
• Yves Oppenheim. Galerie Liliane & Michel Durand-Dessert, Paris 1992, OCLC 493421462 .
• Christian Besson: Yves Oppenheim: fatiguer la peinture. Cardinaux, Châtellerault 1997, OCLC 465606751 .
• Yves Oppenheim: La Salle Blanche. Musée des Beaux-arts, Nantes 1998, ISBN 2-906211-38-9 .
• Delphine Hectaridis: Yves Oppenheim: 36 peintures avec l'outremer. Musée départemental, Gap 2000, ISBN 2-908802-08-2 .
• April Elizabeth Lamm: Yves Oppenheim: Berlin Paintings: 2002–2004. Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin 2004, OCLC 492865591 .

literature

• Felicitas Krohn: Oppenheim, Yves . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 93, de Gruyter, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-11-023259-2 , p. 414.
• Günter Meissner (Hrsg.): General artist lexicon : Bio-bibliographical index. Volume 7: Michallon - Pikaar. KG Saur, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-598-23917-3 , p. 463.
• Oppenheim, Yves . In: Adrian M. Darmon: Around Jewish Art. A Dictionary of Painters, Sculptors, and Photographers. Carnot, 2003, ISBN 2-84855-011-2 , p. 268 ( limited preview in Google book search).

Web links

• Oppenheim, Yves in the Benezit Dictionary of Artists , online via Grove Dictionary of Art (subscription access)
• Oppenheim, Yves in general online artist lexicon (access via De Gruyter online )
• Yves Oppenheim at Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
• Yves Oppenheim on artnet
• Yves Oppenheim , European Patent Office - Art in the Workplace
• Simone Reber: Yves Oppenheim in Wedding. In: Der Tagesspiegel , May 2, 2009.
• Nicholas Forrest: Orbiting the color: Yves Oppenheim in Paris , blouinartinfo.com, June 23, 2015 ( Memento of July 2, 2016 in the web archive archive.today )
• Portraits of the artist
• Yves Oppenheim in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Yves Oppenheim - Art Seen Ep. 104 on YouTube
2. ↑ Yves Oppenheim on artnet
3. ↑ http://www.artslant.com/global/artists/show/41593-yves-oppenheim