Thomas Rentmeister

Quick Facts

Full Name	Thomas Rentmeister
Occupation	Sculptor
Date Of Birth	Mar 4, 1964(1964-03-04)
Age	60
Birthplace	Reken
Country	Germany
Birth City	North Rhine-Westphalia
Horoscope	Pisces

Thomas Rentmeister Biography

Thomas Rentmeister is one of the most popular and richest Sculptor who was born on March 4, 1964 in Reken, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Thomas Rentmeister (born March 4 1964, in Reken, North Rhine- Westphalia, Germany) is a German artist from Germany. He is currently residing in Berlin and is a professor in the Braunschweig University of Art (Hochschule for Bildende Arte Braunschweig).

It is said that the “motor behind Rentmeister’s work” is the “balancing act of seduction and repulsiveness, between the beautiful and the unpleasant. The artist is trying to “find the point where the sweet, the beautiful suddenly turns into the disgusting, the repressed and the inappropriate” According to this the entire work of Rentmeister is defined by the “fully developed paradoxical strategy of ambivalence.” The “theme of transience” also “discreetly but nevertheless unmistakably permeates broad sections of his oeuvre.”

Exhibition catalogues and features emphasize Rentmeister’s humor. “His tools are humor and his approach is that of the parodist.” He knows how to align density in form and content with humor. But Rentmeister is more than a senior ironist. Thomas Rentmeister in an interview with Deutschlandfunk: “My work is saturated with irony; but this is not the only motivation that drives me. If you omitted the irony, my oeuvre would still work.”

Rentmeister has been featured in numerous international museums and galleries. The work of Rentmeister was the theme of the retrospective of his mid-career. Objects. Food. Rooms.

Thomas Rentmeister Net Worth

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

Rentmeister was a student from 1987 until 1993, at Kunstakademie Dusseldorf where he was instructed under Gunther Uecker, and Alfonso Huppi. In 1999, he became an instructor in the Kunsthochschule Kassel. It was his teaching at Kassel’s Berlin University of the Arts from 2002 until 2004 and at the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee from 2005 to 2006. He was appointed as an instructor at the Hochschule für Bildende Kunst Braunschweig (BK) in the year 2007 before he was elevated to professor in 2009.

Rentmeister has gained the attention of an increasing number of people due to his high-gloss polyester creations that are shaped like huge comic characters or blobs. Since 1999, he’s been working often using Nutella Spread along with Penaten Baby Cream. He has adopted “a set of industrially mass-produced domestic materials as units or building blocks, from sugar cubes and cotton tips to Tempo tissues, electrical sockets and whole refrigerators.” Then, he creates sculptures with the ingredients.

Rentmeister and his work steers clear of one-dimensional definitions. “Rentmeister’s work oscillates between an emotional ‘will to art’ and a humorous art and institutional critique, between a reference to everyday life and the aspirations of art, whereby the artist carefully avoids taking a clear stand.”

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Thomas Ranked on the list of most popular Sculptor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Germany. Thomas Rentmeister celebrates birthday on March 4 of every year.