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Detlev Foth BIOGRAPHY
Born 1959 Munster, Westfalia, Germany. Known for: Painting.
Detlev Foth, an important painter between expressive figuration and abstraction, was born in 1959 in Münster in Westphalia. As a young man he worked together with Kurt Link, who worked as an artist... Read full biography
Detlev Foth, an important painter between expressive figuration and abstraction, was born in 1959 in Münster in Westphalia. As a young man he worked together with Kurt Link, who worked as an artist in Dusseldorf. Detlev Foth studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1979 on. His teachers included... Read full biography
Detlev Foth, an important painter between expressive figuration and abstraction, was born in 1959 in Münster in Westphalia. As a young man he worked together with Kurt Link, who worked as an artist in Dusseldorf. Detlev Foth studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1979 on. His teachers included Luise Kimme, Bernard Luthi, Siegfried Cremer, Tony Cragg, Walter Biemel and Rolf Sackville. In his paintings, Detlev Foth is between abstract and figurative expressionism. With impasto, gestural brush... Read full biography
Detlev Foth, an important painter between expressive figuration and abstraction, was born in 1959 in Münster in Westphalia. As a young man he worked together with Kurt Link, who worked as an artist in Dusseldorf. Detlev Foth studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1979 on. His teachers included Luise Kimme, Bernard Luthi, Siegfried Cremer, Tony Cragg, Walter Biemel and Rolf Sackville. In his paintings, Detlev Foth is between abstract and figurative expressionism. With impasto, gestural brush strokes he locates his landscape paintings and architecture images in this border area. Although the paintings remain with a few exceptions representational, the motifs play with abstraction in different degrees therefore creating a tension between... Read full biography
Detlev Foth, an important painter between expressive figuration and abstraction, was born in 1959 in Münster in Westphalia. As a young man he worked together with Kurt Link, who worked as an artist in Dusseldorf. Detlev Foth studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1979 on. His teachers included Luise Kimme, Bernard Luthi, Siegfried Cremer, Tony Cragg, Walter Biemel and Rolf Sackville. In his paintings, Detlev Foth is between abstract and figurative expressionism. With impasto, gestural brush strokes he locates his landscape paintings and architecture images in this border area. Although the paintings remain with a few exceptions representational, the motifs play with abstraction in different degrees therefore creating a tension between recognition and imagination in the viewer. His photographs and digitally enhanced collages sometimes... Read full biography
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Detlev Foth, an important painter between expressive figuration and abstraction, was born in 1959 in Münster in Westphalia. As a young man he worked together with Kurt Link, who worked as an artist in Dusseldorf. Detlev Foth studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1979 on. His teachers included Luise Kimme, Bernard Luthi, Siegfried Cremer, Tony Cragg, Walter Biemel and Rolf Sackville.
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