Christian Lemmerz

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Full Name	Christian Lemmerz
Occupation	Sculptor
Date Of Birth	Jan 30, 1959(1959-01-30)
Age	65
Country	Germany
Birth City	Karlsruhe
Horoscope	Capricorn

Christian Lemmerz Biography

Christian Lemmerz is one of the most popular and richest Sculptor who was born on January 30, 1959 in Karlsruhe, Germany. Christian Lemmerz (born January 30 1959) is a German-born sculptor and visual artist who studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Carrara, Italy from 1978-82 and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts between 1983 and 1988. Although he received a traditional sculptor’s education in Carrara Lemmerz found his primary inspiration from Post-war processes-oriented Pop Art; not least from his fellow countryman Joseph Beuys.

In recognition of his artistic accomplishments, Lemmerz was honoured with Thorvaldsen’s Medal in 2009 as well as his Eckersberg Medal in 2008. In 2015, he was awarded the foundation’s New Carlsberg Artist Grant.

On the basis of an urge to widen the artistic possibilities and a need to offer resistance to the prevailing conventions, Lemmerz makes use of stone wool, foam rubber, margarine, chocolate and other composite materials that effectively elicit an intensely direct affect. He yearns to create an imbalance on different levels. The artist formulates a couple of sculptural conceptions, “the impossible sculpture” and the “pre-linguistic” sculpture,” by means of which he links up his project with Heidegger’s reflections on being and his rumination on everything’s – and especially art’s – beginnings, hereby aiming at creating paths more than just artworks.

The span of Christian Lemmerz’ oeuvre is extensive and pluralistic. Regardless of the material, the form or the medium employed, Lemmerz’ work can generally be characterized by aesthetics of effect. The artworks grasp out and clutch into the surrounding environment and call for more than mere contemplation.

Lemmerz was an scenographer in Steven Berkoff’s Brok (1994) as well as Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Petra von Kants bitre tarer (1996). Lemmerz is also the writer and the producer of A.L.P. Traum which is a reinterpretation of the ending of Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake (Edison 1997). The novel also inspired Lemmerz as well as Michael Kvium’s The Wake (2000), an eight-hour silent film which is available in various versions. Over the past decade, Christian Lemmerz has resumed his marble-based work and is thus a part of an sculptural style that dates to Renaissance and Neoclassicism. Examples of this include his Todesfigur (2012 Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek) as well as The Marble Altar at Lyngby Church (2013).

Christian Lemmerz Net Worth

Christian Lemmerz is one of the richest Sculptor from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Christian Lemmerz 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In the early 1980s , Lemmerz was a member in Lemmerz was a member of the Danish art collective Vaerkstedet Vaerst and the performance group Performancegruppen Vaerst. He conducted several performances from 1985 until 1994, most of which were with his long-time collaborator and artist Michael Vium.

For the exhibit Scene of the Night at Esbjerg Kunstmuseum in 1994 Christian Lemmerz was working with blood-smeared surfaces and decomposing carcasses of pigs in steel-framed, glass-walled vitrines influenced by traditional still lives in which dead objects are frequently used as existential symbol. The exhibit was a manifestation of the universal idea of death as well as the transient through art works that were modern in their design and appearance. The exhibition dragged the viewers to a world of fascination and displeasure, making it almost impossible to turn away. People might have wondered what if the pigs had been murdered in a brutal manner for the exhibit or if they had in a natural way, as they did around the work Away from the Flock from 1994 by British artist Damien Hirst. The absurdity of pigs and their resemblance to human beings give the piece its emotional. In Scene, Lemmerz’ was working in a borderline psychological space, where the concept of sculpture was extended to the most severe implications.

Current political and ethical questions become endowed with a clearer voice through the works, which always, in terms of their form and content, constitute a transformation from recognizability to the more veiled or unknown, inasmuch as Lemmerz is working rhizomatically, where the assertion sometimes assumes a classically distinct form and sometimes manifests itself with a gestural formlessness. His whole pluralistic oeuvre is bound together, at the same time, by the fragment – as an open and processual figure.

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