In the exhibition we are showing works from three decades: About The House, New York; Berlin-Tiergarten; Triest oder die Götter. On the occasion of his retrospective at Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen (26.03. to 25.08.24) and at the Kunstmuseum Singen (29.09. to 05.01.25), Kerber Verlag published a catalog entitled …
Together with the Rolf Horn Foundation, the Schleswig-Holstein State Museums Foundation is showing the retrospective "Matthias Mansen. Triest or the Gods" with works from four decades. Matthias Mansen is one of the centrale proponents of woodcut printing in contemporary art. He has worked exclusively in this medium since 1983. …
Seven artists that are represent with large groups of artworks in the collection of the Kunstmuseum Reutlingen receive a forum for their tangible engagement with art on two floors of the Spendhaus: The material used in all of the works is wood, be it for three-dimensional objects or woodcuts. Since the early history of mankind, wood has been …
The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its Legacy presents insights into the work of these innovative, early 20th-century artists and their continuing impact a century later. The National Gallery of Art has important holdings of prints and drawings by German expressionists Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and Emil Nolde, among others. …
To mark the anniversary of the district and Kreissparkasse Esslingen, Matthias Mansen explored the region to create a comprehensive woodcut cycle for the Kreissparkasse. He traveled to various regions of the Esslingen district and selected 15 significant motifs - some familiar, others unfamiliar - which he transformed into impressive woodcuts.
The figure is usually the starting point of Matthias Mansen's artistic work. In his woodcuts, some of which are large-format, he approaches various human poses and postures by merely hinting at the figures, which evoke antique sculptures, through a kind of hatching.
Exhibition of the new editions from the series "Trieste or the Gods" (2021) upon the invitation of Wolfgang Wittrock at Haus Möller in Zermützel, Brandenburg, designed by Hans Scharoun.
"Woodcut. 1400 to Today" kicks off a new series of exhibitions at the Kupferstichkabinett, each presenting an artistic printing technique. Using over 100 works of art on paper - including masterpieces by Albrecht Dürer, Edvard Munch or Käthe Kollwitz - the development of the technique is traced from its beginnings to the present day. The …
Matthias Mansen was born in Ravensburg in 1958. From 1978 to 1984 he studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe. Since then he has worked almost exclusively in the medium of woodcut. Mansen is not interested in reproducing already existing motifs or images, but in developing complex images in a large number of variations. His …
The group exhibition is dedicated to the archetype of the tower as a multi-layered symbol that can stand for protection, defense or imprisonment as well as for progress, farsightedness and the skyward striving of the human spirit. The Tower of Babel became a symbol of human hubris; as phallic symbols, towers are gestures of patriarchal power. …
There is a widespread idea that any form of reproduction is synonymous with a loss of originality. But this potential for dissemination, on the contrary, includes unexpected aspects: It calls into question creativity itself. Thus, the exhibition at the Musée d'arts d'histoire in Geneva invites us on a journey to the core of the artistic act. …
At the start of this year I was planning a small exhibition at Mother, Maiden & Crone, Potsdamer Straße, Berlin, a place where I usually go for lunch. While I was selecting the prints, I was surprised by the number of works relating to food!
As the exhibition had to be postponed indefitivly due to Corona, I would like to present …
Klaus Hack, Robert Hammerstiel, Joachim Jurgeluchs, Per Kirkeby, Matthias Mansen, Otto Pankok, Günther Ücker
Matthias Mansen (* 1958 in Ravensburg), studied 1978–1984 at the Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe. Having lived and worked in London, Paris and New York, he has been based in Berlin since 1994. In his large scale series of woodcuts, Mansen investigates how images come into being. In a traditional technique, he explores …
Albrecht Fersch, Verena Freyschmidt, Alexander Habisreutinger, Matthias Mansen, Silke Miche, Lilla von Puttkamer. The exhibition was accompanied by a brochure.
"The 'Potsdamer Strasse' series forms the heart of this exhibition and is complemented by a selection of works that illustrate Mansen's various creative phases." The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue published by Wienand Verlag.
The new series "Triest and the Gods" (2018) was exhibited by August Laube on the IFPDA Print Fair in New York.
The exhibition shows oil paintings by Erich Mansen, watercolours and drawings by Anna Mansen, woodcuts by Matthias Mansen and works by Susanne Mansen, as well as nineteenth-century landscapes by Emma Schlette, a great-aunt of Anna Mansen from Ellwangen.
This exhibition presents a selection of gestural, expressionist woodcuts and linocuts from the late 1970s and 80s by four contemporary German artists: Georg Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer, Felix Droese, and Matthias Mansen.
Matthias Mansen (German, born 1958) creates large-scale woodcuts that explore abstraction and figuration. He advances the tradition of woodblock printing by transforming pieces of scavenged wood—discarded floorboards or fragments of abandoned furniture—into printing blocks, which he progressively carves and recarves. Working on numerous …
This is the first presentation of Matthias Mansen’s new woodcuts, made in Berlin between 2011 and 2015. The geographical coincidence is striking: Matthias Mansen’s studio as the production site (Am Karlsbad), the venue of the presentation at Galerie Aurel Scheibler (Schöneberger Ufer), and Mansen’s source of inspiration Potsdamer Straße are …
The exhibition includes works donated to the Department of Graphic Arts by the family of Daniel and Pearl Bell (Harvard) in 2011. The relationship with the renowned sociologist and collector Daniel Bell was of great importance to Matthias Mansen. From this encounter arose a dense and fruitful exchange. The exhibition "Work in Progress" is a …
Two years after the Rolf Horn Collection was featured at the Brücke Museum in Berlin, the contemporary Berlin artist Matthias Mansen is now a guest at the Rolf Horn Collection. His expansive woodcuts are in dialogue with the works of classical modernism, with the woodcuts of the "Brücke" as well as with the works of Emil Nolde, Max Beckmann …
Matthias Mansen – Master student of Markus Lüpertz and Georg Baselitz – is renowned throughout Eruope and the United States for his skill in the traditional medium of woodcut. His masterpieces are in famous museum collections in the U. S. and Germany, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C. …
„...the new invention of the land and the sea in woodcuts.“ (Eckhart Gillen)
The Berlin-based artist Matthias Mansen is one of the most distinguished woodcutters of the present day. The exhibition Matthias Mansen. Land und See, which has been developed in cooperation with the Kunstverein in Mannheim and the Städtische Kunstsammlungen …
„...the new invention of the land and the sea in woodcuts.“ (Eckhart Gillen)
The Berlin-based artist Matthias Mansen is one of the most distinguished woodcutters of the present day. The exhibition Matthias Mansen. Land und See, which has been developed in cooperation with the Kunstverein in Mannheim and the Städtische Kunstsammlungen …
„...the new invention of the land and the sea in woodcuts.“ (Eckhart Gillen)
The Berlin-based artist Matthias Mansen is one of the most distinguished woodcutters of the present day. The exhibition Matthias Mansen. Land und See, which has been developed in cooperation with the Kunstverein in Mannheim and the Städtische Kunstsammlungen …