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Katharina Fritsch

Katharina Fritsch (Born 1956) is active/lives in Germany.  Katharina Fritsch is known for Iconic surreal and hyper-real sculpture, installation, audio.

Katharina Fritsch is most widely known for her sculptures consisting of repeated shapes, and her use of single objects to evoke an emotional response from the viewer. She is recognized for challenging the perception of the viewer through art pieces that are both abstract and minimal.

Fritsch was born in 1956 in Essen, Germany where she lived with her family in the industrial district of the city. She wanted to be an artist at a very early age and her parents were both artistically inclined. Her father worked as an architect and her mother studied dancing and acting. Her grandfather was a salesman of Faber-Castell pencils and supplied her with drawing materials. He taught her how to draw and her father instructed her as well. She experienced her first substantial art education while attending the University in Munster where she studied art history. In the evenings she took drawing classes with Hermann Josef Kuhna at the Munster Volkshochschule. In 1978 Fritsch went to the city o   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 12029 characters.]  Artist bio

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