Matthias Koster - Artist Info

About Matthias Koster

  • Biography

    Matthias Koster was born in Detmold in 1961. He studied at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf, where he was a student of Markus Lüpertz. He graduated from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York in 1988.

    From 1992 to 1997 he was active as a teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Braunschweig. His works are related to the tradition of the German School of Realism, Expressionism and Italian Romanticism. Köster lives and works in Düsseldorf and Empoly, Italy.

    Exhibitions:
    1995, Gallery Schmitz-Purgatori, Roma;
    2000, Goethe Institute, Paris;
    2003, Museum Katharinenhof, Kranenburg;
    2004, Gallery DV, San Sebastian;
    2005, Tega Arte contemporanea, Milano;
    2006, MMOMA, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Mos...

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