Bastienne Schmidt

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Bastienne Schmidt (born 1961) is a German artist who works in painting, large-scale drawing and photography. Since 1989, Schmidt has worked as a freelance photojournalist for German and American newspapers and magazines. [1]

Her work deals with the correlation between the imagination and the "significance of environment", by referencing the psychological as well as the physical space around us. [2]

She has exhibited her work at the International Center of Photography, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, among other venues. [2]

Collections

Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, [3] the Brooklyn Museum, [4] the Museum of Modern Art, New York, [5] the Victoria and Albert Museum, [6] the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona, [7]

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References

  1. "Sueddeutsche Zeitung" (PDF). 2015-12-28. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-12-28. Retrieved 2022-10-15.
  2. 1 2 WM. "Topography of Quiet: Bastienne Schmidt". Whitehot Magazine.
  3. "Bastienne Schmidt: Sitting on a Red Daybed, Bridgehampton, NY". mfah.org.
  4. "Brooklyn Museum". www.brooklynmuseum.org.
  5. "Bastienne Schmidt | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art.
  6. Museum, Victoria and Albert. "Wall of graves, Bogota, Colombia | Bastienne Schmidt | V&A Explore The Collections". Victoria and Albert Museum: Explore the Collections.
  7. "Online Collections". Center for Creative Photography. 22 November 2019.