Charline von Heyl

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Charline von Heyl
Born1960 (age 6364)
Known for Painting
Movement Abstract

Charline von Heyl (born 1960) is a German abstract painter. [1] She also works with drawing, printmaking, and collage. She moved to the United States in the 1990s, and has studios in New York City and in Marfa, Texas. [2] She is currently represented by Petzel Gallery.

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Life

Von Heyl was born in Mainz and spent her childhood in Bonn. Her father was a lawyer, her mother a psychologist. [3] She studied painting at the Hochschule für bildende Künste of Hamburg under Jörg Immendorff, and at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Fritz Schwegler. In the mid-1990s she moved to New York City, [4] where she has a studio in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. [5] [3]

Since 1997, Charline von Heyl has been married to fellow artist Christopher Wool.

Work

In 2005, von Heyl's exhibition Concentrations 48: Charline von Heyl [6] was held at the Dallas Museum of Art in Dallas, Texas, USA, and in 2009, her work was exhibited in Le jour de boire est arrivé held at Le Consortium, a contemporary art center in Dijon, France.

In 2011–2012, von Heyl had two major traveling retrospectives. Charline von Heyl, Now or Else started at the Tate Liverpool in Liverpool, England [7] [8] [9] and subsequently traveled to the Kunsthalle Nürnberg in Nuremberg, Germany [7] and the Bonner Kunstverein in Bonn, Germany. A second show, Charline von Heyl, was exhibited within the United States at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston [7] [10] and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia. [7] [8]

In 2018, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden exhibited the largest U.S. museum survey ever of von Heyl's work. [11] Featuring more than thirty large-scale paintings, Charline von Heyl: Snake Eyes was extended due to its popularity at the museum.

Reception

Von Heyl was one of six finalists for the 2014 Hugo Boss Prize. [12]

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  12. Carol Vogel (December 12, 2013), Steve McQueen Among 6 Hugo Boss Prize Finalists The New York Times.

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