MARKUS OEHLEN
Markus Oehlen (* 1956 in Krefeld) completed a traineeship as a design draftsman from 1971 to 1973. He studied arts at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1976 to 1982, where he was a master-class student of Alfonso Hüppi. Since 2002 he is professor at the Academy of Arts, Munich. Oehlen is one of the "Junge Wilde" with his expressive and figurative paintings in the 1980s. To delimit from tradition and to provoke he used cheap materials, for instance dispersion or wax. From time to time Oehlen came along with new materials, which he used to develop new techniques. For instance, in the 1990 he started working with cords of cotton. Oehlen started to create sculptures with those materials.
| 1956 | Born in Krefeld, lives in Munich |
| 1976 | Studies art at the Academy of Fine Arts, Düsseldorf |
| 1987 | Berliner Kunstpreis |
| Since 2002 | Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich |
aluminium casting
batik
digital printing
installation
interactive art
mixed media
object
painting
photocopying
print
screen printing
spray painting
textile art
underdrawing
acrylic paint
aluminum
baryte
boat varnish
calico
candle
car radio
car tire
cardboard, indefinite
clay
clear varnish
construction adhesive
cotton cord
dispersion paint
enamel pen
foam rubber
glass, indefinite
glue, indefinite
gypsum
hose
household paint
iron
laser projector
linoleum
linseed oil
loudspeaker
luminous paint
medium-density fiberboard (MDF board)
oil paint
paraffin wax
particle board
pencil
permanent marker
picture frame
pigment, indefinite
plastic, indefinite
plywood
PS (polystyrene)
PS foam
PU (polyurethane)
PU varnish
PVC (polyvinyl chloride)
radio
roof batten
rope/cord
self-adhesive PVC foil
siccative
smoke machine
spray paint
stone
styrofoam glue
synthetic resin paint
textile paint
textile, indefinite
tinting point
titanium white
turpentine oil
wallpaper paste
wax
wax, indefinite
white glue
wood, indefinite
zinc white
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