Born in Rapperswil/CH, 1954

University of Fine Arts, Zurich/CH, 1974-1979
Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York, 1981

lives and works in New York and Zürich


Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008 Museo d'Arte Co

Architectural, Death, Enigmatic, Experimental, Hi-tech, Hypnotic, Organic, Perceptual, Pioneering, Sublime

Christian Boltanski is a French photographer, sculptor, painter, and installation artist. Born in Paris in 1944 to a Jewish father of Ukrainian heritage, and a Corsican Christian mother, Boltanski was attracted to painting and drawing as a young child, and left school at the age of 12. In the late â€

Architectural, Atmospheric, Contemplative, Dark, Death, Dramatic, Ironic, Melancholy, Monumental, Tragic

I've seriously considered painting a burden, though I do consider it my only means of understanding the world, and, in fact my only means of feeling at home in the world. I don't know what I feel and think until I paint. Painting is my only means of bringing each day about '“ making peace with myse

Dark, Death, Distorted

Probably the most lyrical and emotional of the German Expressionists, Kathe Kollwitz explored the austere themes of suffering and death in her poignant prints and compelling sculptures. Born to parents with strong Socialist beliefs, Kollwitz later married a doctor but settled in one of the poorest

Dark, Death, Dense, Dramatic, Feminist, German expressionism, Gritty, Self-reflection