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Artist | Albert Oehlen |
Title | Taschentuch, 199 |
Courtesy of | Rudolf and Ute Scharpff Collection |
Albert Oehlen (* 1954, Krefeld) is one of the most important German painters of his generation. His creative output spans over 30 years and gains its substantial importance in the old word by articulating its fundamental scepticism regarding the medium if fine art – similar to the work of Gerhard Richter – within the medium itself, instead of simply abandoning the notion of fine art altogether.
Beginning with the rude, wild attacks of the...