KATHARINA FRITSCH
Katharina Fritsch (was born in 1956 Essen Germany) is a german artist living and working in Düseeldorf. The artist is known for her sculptures and installations that reinvigorate familiar objects with a jarring and uncanny sensibility. Her works' iconography is drawn from many different sources, including Christianity, art history and folklore. She attracted international attention for the first time in the mid-1980s with life-size works such as a true-to-scale elephant. Fritsch's art is often concerned with the psychology and expectations of visitors to a museum. The clarity, austerity and precision of Fritsch’s forms is developed through a lengthy manual sculpting process, a way to achieve the near industrial perfection of their finish.
Some of the past expositions:
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(2022) White Cube Paris
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(2020) George Economou Collection, Athens
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(2020) Matthew Marks Gallery LA, CA
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(2016) National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
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(2012) Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
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(2003) DIA Center for the Arts, New York
Permanently collected by:
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Museum of Modern Art, New York
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National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C
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Philadelphia Museum of Art
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The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
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Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
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Museum Brandhorst, Munich
“Maus”, 1991 - 1998
20 x 24 x 8 cm , black resin , Ed/ 240
