1969
geboren in Stuttgart

1990-1994
Studies at the Hochschule der
Bildenden Künste Braunschweig
/ Prof. Johannes Brus

1991
Studies at the San Antonio Art Institute, USA,
bei Prof. Bill Fitzgibbons

1994-1997
Studies at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

1994
Studies Philosophie at the
Heinrich Heine Universität, Düsseldorf

1997
Meisterschüler bei Prof. Fritz Schwegler

Prices

2000
Kunstpreis der deutschen Volksbanken
und Raiffeisenbanken 1999/2000 ( 1. Preis)

2002
Scholarship of the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg

1991
San Antonio Art Institute, Texas

1993
Kunsthalle Tübingen (G)

1994
Kunstakademie Dresden (G)

1995
Kunstraum Düsseldorf (G)

1997
Kunstverein Heinsberg (G)

1998
Galerie Voss, Düsseldorf

1999
Art Brüssel (Galerie Voss), Brüssel (G)
Galerie Voss, Düsseldorf
Sprengel Museum, Hannover (G)

2000
Art Brüssel (Galerie Voss), Brüssel (G)
Art Cologne (Galerie Voss), Köln (G)
Arte Fiera Bologna, Bologna (I)

2001
Studio d`Arte Cannaviello, Milano
Kunstverein Wilhelmshöhe (zusammen mit Katharina Hinsberg), Ettlingen
Art Brussels (Galerie Voss), Brüssel (G)
John Doe, Düsseldorf
Künstlerbund, Tübingen
Galerie Voss, Düsseldorf

2002
Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart (G)

2003
2003 Städtisches Kunstmuseum Singen
Städtische Galerie Iserlohn
Schauspielhaus Bochum
Museum Singen

2004
2004 MKIII , Kunstverein Mönchengladbach
Galerie des Künstlerbundes Tübingen
Städtische Galerie Böblingen

2005
2005 Ortstermin 8 , Düsseldorf
Kunstwerk Frankfurt

2006
2006 Galerie des Künstlerbundes Tübingen
BIS, Mönchengladbach
Ober Gallery, Kent ( USA )

The German artist creates sculptures and paintings that transport viewers into dreamlike encounters with dwarfs or strange characters with extra-large ties.
Thos are some of the typical figures that populate von Criegerns pictorial inventions. Giving his figures names like superheros, “mirror-man“ or „sculpture-king“, von Criegern plays with those figures as if they were part of a stage play. They appear in many drawings, paintings and sculptures and develop a life of their own. The stage sets for these scenes are interiors that are influenced by the strict perspective of Renaissance masterpieces, but what we see in those settings reminds of the commedia dellárte.

Paintings like „Playing with money“ are changing the daily life into absurd scenery. Bankers have stripped off their business-like behaviour and play with money like children with their toys.

Friedrich Marc von Criegern is a storyteller. He develops a completely personal world governed by its own laws. But his narrative approach is combined with a clear and pure style. The paintings are characterized by a strong emphasis on contour. Black ink drawings are set against a brilliant yellow ground.
These paintings are a great example of the artists imaginative fusion of surrealist fantasy with the rigors of Purism.

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