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Franz Ackermann (born 1963 in Neumarkt-Sankt Veit, Bavaria) is a German painter and installation artist based in Berlin. He makes cartoonish abstraction. [1]
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From 1984—1988, Franz Ackermann studied in Munich at the Academy of Fine Arts, and then in Hamburg for three years at the University of Fine Arts. Much travelled, he now lives between Miami and Berlin. His meticulous, tonally controlled canvases, with their spatial disintegration and jumbled perspectives, show his awareness of globalism's link to t...
Franz Ackermann's paintings, with complementary palettes, rendered aircrafts, strangely bulging bags, and diagrams and maps, turn tourism into something highly ambiguous: the chance for the individual to check out places and people of wonder, hitherto unknown, but also (in pre-Covid times) to explore creeping wastelands of greed and discarded rubbi...
Franz Ackermann's solo exhibitions include The Barn, Meyer Riegger, Berlin (2020); Our Houses, Templon, Brussels (2019); Franz Ackermann: New Work, Templon, Paris (2016); Transit: Again /Always /Forever, Dirimart, Istanbul (2012); Walking South, Faena Arts Center, Buenos Aires (2012); New Ads for São Paulo, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo (2011); ...
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Franz Ackermann is a contemporary German artist best known for his psychedelic paintings and installations. View Franz Ackermann’s 205 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices.
The Secret Tunnel. Franz Ackermann. Ackermann’s cityscape is information overload: a seething metropolis striated in Technicolor glory. Grey modernist architecture looms at an unnatural angle, engulfed in retro-style smog, while an inverted stairway to heaven descends into the open earth below.
Franz Ackermann is a multimedia artist whose practice is entwined with the action and implications of travel and tourism. Ackerman’s exuberant works with their saturated colours are inhabited with overlapping forms that merge with fragments of images taken directly from urban reality.
Franz Ackermann, born in 1963 in the Bavarian Neumarkt-Sankt Veit, is a German multimedia artist. Ackermann is recognized for his monumental paintings, large-scale installations and numerous public commissions, in which he touches on the thematics of globalization, tourism and travel.
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Artist Bio. Featured in exhibitions such as the Museum of Modern Art’s Drawing Now and the Carnegie International, Berlin-based artist Franz Ackermann has established himself as one of the premier painters working today. From his first series of works, Mental Maps, made during his stay in Hong Kong in the 1990s, Ackermann has presented the ...
