ARTISTS / Contemporary art
Matthias Mansen

1958	born in Ravensburg
1978-84	State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe,study of painting with professors Georg Baselitz and Markus Lüpertz
1981-84	University of Karlsruhe study of art history
1984	studio in Berlin.graduation in art education with the 1st state examination
1986-87	St. Martins School of Art, London Advanced Course in Painting
1988	Studio in Paris, Cité des Arts
1989-94	Studio in New York
2015	Academy of Art Bad Reichenhall
2017	Teaching at the Gymnasium Carolinum, Neustrelitz
1986-87	DAAD annual scholarship, London
1987	Annual scholarship of the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart
1988	1st prize, art award of the Künstlergilde Ulm e.V. (City of Ulm)
1991	Art Prize "Young West", City of Recklinghausen
	lives and works in Berlin
	Solo exhibitions (selection)
2017	Matthias Mansen: Configurations, National Gallery of Art Washington
2016	Berlin series, Kreissparkasse Ravensburg, Ravensburg
2015	Traces of cuts ,Kreissparkasse Esslingen-Nürtingen
2012	Work in Progress, Cabinet d'arts graphiques, Musée d'arts et d'histoire, Genève
2011	Dialogues, Matthias Mansen - Rolf Horn Collection, Gallery of Classical Modernism, Gottorf Castle, Schleswig
2010	Matthias Mansen. Parklandscapes, Seasons - Times of Day, Kreissparkasse Reutlingen
2008	Matthias Mansen, Tracing Cuts, Association for the Promotion of Art in the DRK Clinics Berlin Westend
2007	Matthias Mansen Land and Sea, Mannheimer Kunstverein, Hamburger Kunsthalle and Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz
	About the House, Woodcuts by Matthias Mansen, The Ashmolean, Oxford
2004	Parallel action, The Art Archive Am Karlsbad, Berlin
	Matthias Mansen. Woman in the Male Forest, Space for Art, Kunstverein Ravensburg
2003	Sailing trip Forum Culture, Sparkasse Hannover
	Matthias Mansen - Woodcut, Museum Folkwang, Essen
2001	Matthias Mansen - Editions, District Savings Bank Ravensburg
2000	The House, Scientists, Bathers, Wolfsberg, Ermatingen
1999	The Body in Parts, Niederrheinischer Kunstverein, Wesel
1998	The House, Alan Christea Gallery, London
1997	About the House, New York 1989-1992, Städtische Galerie in der Stiftung Reutlingen, Kunstverein Göttingen, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen and MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge Massachusetts
	Group exhibitions (selection)
2016	Matthias Mansen & Sverre Wyller, Model for an exhibition, Edward-Munch-Haus e.V., Warnemünde, Germany
2015	I am a plant Nature processes in art, Ravensburg Art Museum, Ravensburg.
2014	Art Upper Swabia 20th century, 1970 until today, Achberg Castle, Ravensburg
2011	St. Laurentius Church, Schönberg, 25th Schönberg Music Summer
	Artistic Positions in Letterpress Printing, Museum of Printing Art Leipzig
2010	Borderlines, estampes, Multiples et dessins contemporains, Cabinet d'arts graphiques, Genève
	4xMansen, Church of the Cross, Nürtingen
	Woodcut in motion. Exhibits from the Peter Kemna Collection, Hauptverband der Deutschen Bauindustrie, Berlin
2009	Treasure House Spendhaus. TheWoodcut in the 20th and 21st Century. Masterpieces from the Collection, Municipal Art Museum Spendhaus Reutlingen
	40 Years Gallery Schlichtenmeier - Current Positions, Gallery Schlichtenmeier, Castle Dätzingen, Grafenau
2008	MANSEN, Erich, Anna, Matthias,Susanne, Painting, Drawing, Watercolor, Woodcut, Installation, Municipal Gallery In der Badstube, Wangen
	30 years of Dätzingen Castle, Gallery Schlichtenmeier, Dätzingen Castle, Grafenau
	From Munch to Beckmann, from Jorn to Gertsch. 100 years of woodcut, Kunsthalle Emden
2007	Samtidskunst fra Nordea Norges kunstsamling, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo
	Matthias Mansen, Peter Sehringer, Schlichtenmeier Gallery, Dätzingen Castle, Grafenau, Germany
2006	Sea, beach and sky, Kunsthaus in Stade, Germany
	Woodcut in Upper Swabia, District Gallery Castle Meßkirch
	Reutlingen collects, works from 11 private art collections in Reutlingen, Kunstverein Reutlingen
	25 years Niederrheinischer Kunstverein, Lower Rhine Art Association, Wesel
	Holzwege, Municipal Gallery Die Fähre, Bad Saulgau
2005	Sea, Beach and Sky, Plüschow Castle, Künstlerbund Mecklenburg-Vorpommern e.V.
	Woodcut Today, Ludwigsburg District Savings Bank
	A gift for Reutlingen. The Woodcut Collection of Peter Kemna, Municipal Art Museum and Spendhaus Reutlingen
2004	Recent Acquisitions, Prints and Drawings from six centuries, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA
	Singenkunst 2004, Art Association Singen
2003	The silver cut, 25 years Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
	in residence. 5 years scholarship holders of the Munch House Warnemünde, Felleshuset, Nordic Embassies, Berlin
	50 years of Germany, reflections in photography and graphic art, Zeitgeschichtliches Forum Leipzig and Willi-Brandt-Haus Berlin
	Insights into the art collection of the district, Kreissparkasse Reutlingen
	Symposium, Max Delbrück Center, Berlin
2002	The new woodcut: Penck, Kluge, Dick. Works from the Peter Kemna Collection, Ernst Barlach House, Hamburg
	From the Dürer Period to Postmodernism. Acquisitions, Foundations, Permanent Loans 1996-2002, Kupferstichkabinett SPMK, Berlin
	Kunst & Co, Reutlingen Art Association, Hans Thoma Society, Municipal Art Museum Spendhaus Reutlingen and Association for the Promotion of Art
2001	Cut into wood, Museum Bochum
	Grafik der Gegenwart, Artists' Forum Bonn, Arbeiterwohlfahrt Bundesverband e.V.
	Din Art 4, 560 artists and 1 format, Museum for Communication Hamburg
2000	Castello del Pio, Modena
1999	Munch House, Warnemünde
	National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage, Museum of Prints and Drawings
1997	Municipal Gallery
1996	The Museum of Modern Art, New York
	Lower Rhine Art Association, Wesel
1995	Kutscherhaus Recklinghausen
1994	Waddington Graphic's, London
	Exhibition space for contemporary art, Düsseldorf
1993	Mannheim Art Association
	Municipal Art Museum, Singen
1992	The Baltimore Museum of Fine Art, Baltimore
	Graphisches Kabinett in the Westend, Frankfurt am Main
1991	National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
	Recklinghausen Art Gallery
	Kreissparkasse Ludwigsburg
1990	Landeskreditbank Stuttgart
	Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
	Public Collections (Selection)
	CollectionsCity Gallery, Albstadt
	The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore
	Kupferstichkabinett, National Museums in Berlin
	Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
	Busch-Reisiger Museum
	Harvard University, Cambridge
	State Art Collections, Dresden
	Städelsches Kunstinstitut and Municipal Gallery, Frankfurt am Main
	Cabinet d'arts graphiques, le Musée d'art et d'histoire, Genève
	Hamburg Art Gallery
	State Art Gallery, Karlsruhe
	Museum Schloß Morsbroich, Leverkusen
	Graphic Collection, Munich
	The Museum of Modern Art, New York
	Ashmolean, Oxford
	Recklinghausen Art Gallery
	Municipal Art Museum Spendhaus, Reutlingen
	Schleswig-Holstein State Museums Gottorf Castle, Schleswig
	State Gallery, Stuttgart
	National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.

Matthias Mansen mostly uses found objects for his wood prints, which he colors with strong oil paints by hand, roller, and brush and transfers wet-on-wet or opaque as frottage onto the canvases. He uses knives, drills, erasing needles, and chisels to work on the printing block. Photographic notes taken on walks serve as motifs. However, these motifs are alienated and abstracted during the transfer. The result is literally multi-layered, multi-plate printed, multi-faceted images in which individual views merge into a dense pictorial structure. 

Potsdamer Street A, 2/3, 2012
228 × 153 cm   →

Potsdamer Street, Feston 3, 2013
51 × 66 cm   →

Trieste or the gods, 2019
119 × 89 cm   →

• Online exhibitions
  • Ben Willikens – lost in space
  • Peter Sehringer – Counterpoint
  • ONLINE ONLY - Small sculpture
  • ONLINE ONLY – Selected art on paper from the collections
  • ONLINE ONLY – Erich Hauser on his 90th birthday
  • »on site« trade fair highlights in the gallery
• exhibitions
  • Stuttgart
  • Schloss Dätzingen
  • Preview
  • Review
• News
• Artists
  • Modern art
  • Art after 1945
  • Contemporary art
• Gallery