Dirk Skreber
Illustration — Dirk Skreber's Untitled (Train) (courtesy Frank Cohen Collection) Dirk Skreber (born 1961) is a German artist who lives and works in New York City. Skreber's work has been exhibited at galleries including The Saatchi Collection, the Petzel Gallery, and the Milwaukee Art Museum. In 2000, he won the Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst.
Dirk Skreber
- Born
- 1961 · Lübeck.
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- painter · university teacher · sculptor
- Education
- Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
- Honours
- Award of National Gallery
- Languages
- German
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Illustration — Dirk Skreber's Untitled (Train) (courtesy Frank Cohen Collection) Dirk Skreber (born 1961) is a German artist who lives and works in New York City. Skreber's work has been exhibited at galleries including The Saatchi Collection, the Petzel Gallery, and the Milwaukee Art Museum. In 2000, he won the Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst.
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Reviewing a 2009 exhibition of his car crash sculptures-- produced at an automotive safety testing facility--a critic from The New York Times described them as "arresting" and suggesting "a Faustian industrialism driven by consumerist desire on a collision course with death."
Dirk Skreber studied at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. The recorded working language is German. Places of work recorded in the authority are Düsseldorf. Employment is recorded with Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe. Work by Dirk Skreber is recorded in the collections of Städel Museum and ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. Distinctions recorded are Award of National Gallery.
Dirk Skreber is recorded with the occupation university teacher. Recorded as painter, university teacher and sculptor.
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Dirk Skreber was born on 1 January 1961.
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- 1.Art in Review. The New York Times. 21 May 2009.
- 2.Petersen, Anne Ring. Contemporary painting in context. Museum Tusculanum Press. 211–. 2010. 978-87-635-2597-8.
- 3.Saatchi Gallery. Dirk Skreber - Artist - Saatchi Gallery.
- 4.Schumacher, Mary Louise. Dirk Skreber's exhibit at Milwaukee Art Museum captivates with catastrophe. Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. 16 December 2013.
- 5.Preis der Nationalgalerie.
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Recognition and collections. Skreber received Award of National Gallery.
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