Matthias weischer biography definition
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Matthias Weischer
Linking back to the classical painting tradition, in Waschraum Matthias Weischer resuscitates the interior as a theme for painting, using this most traditional of motifs as a sounding board to explore thoroughly modern concerns. Paradoxically, it is from within the strict conventions of 17th-century Dutch painting that Weischer finds one of the most innovative and direct expressions of his own age, simultaneously mining the rik seam of the history of painting while concomitantly capturing the zeitgeist of his time. On the one hand an exercise in the purely formal concerns of Modernism, the deserted, isolated and sparsely furnished interior space of Waschraum enshrines the disenchantment of a generation whose euphoric expectations at the reunification of Germany have stagnated into disillusionment and anomie.
Originally from Westphalia in West Germany, Weischer is one of a select few who, after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, swam against the migra
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Matthias Weischer
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Edited by: Susanne Pfeffer, Künstlerhaus Bremen
German, English
March 2005, 64 Pages, 0 Ills., 37 Photos
softcover
321mm x 342mm
ISBN: 978-3-7757-1495-2
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A small publication about the unusual paintings by Matthias Weischer, one of the new ung 'shooting stars' of the painting scene. Designed by Markus Dreßen, the graphic designer of "the most beautiful book of the world," from 2004.
Most of the empty, austere interiors shown in the paintings of Matthias Weischer seem confining to the point of claustrophobia, and time appears to have komma to a standstill in them as well. Weischer, who was born in 1973 in Elte, Westphalia, an
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MATTHIAS WEISCHER
KÖNIG BERLIN
17 SEPTEMBER – 25 OCTOBER 2015
The Observation of Vision in the Act of Painting: Notes on Matthias Weischer’s New Work
Almost a decade has passed since the painter Matthias Weischer first presented himself in Berlin with a solo show. In the intervening years, he has steadily expanded his vocabulary; among his sources of inspiration have been experiments with various graphic techniques and almost sculptural “pulp paintings.” One signal development has been his creation of a distinctive individual language for landscapes.
These endeavors have enhanced his awareness of the versatility of his painterly means, as is evident in the elaborately constructed interiors that have earned him international renown as one of the most interesting painters of his generation. Models of spaces that are as alluring as they are enigmatic, they first appear to show domestic settings that exude a peculiar atmosphere but then turn out to be sophisticated montages of lin