Albert Oehlen was born on 17 September 1954 and is a German painter, installation artist and musician.
14 Facts About Albert Oehlen
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Albert Oehlen graduated from the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg in 1978.
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Closely associated with the Cologne art scene, Albert Oehlen was a member of the Lord Jim Lodge, along with Martin Kippenberger among others.
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Albert Oehlen's art is related to the Neue Wilde movement.
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Albert Oehlen has more recently been described as a 'free radical'.
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Albert Oehlen used only gray tones for his "Grey" paintings and limited himself to red, yellow, and blue for another series of what he calls "bad" paintings that included his infamous 1986 portrait of Adolf Hitler.
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In 2002, Albert Oehlen exhibited the "Self-Portraits" series which included eight self-portraits among them Fruhstuck Now, Self-Portrait With Open Mouth and Self-Portrait as a Dutch Woman.
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Since the late 1990s Albert Oehlen has played in the bands Red Krayola and Van Albert Oehlen.
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Albert Oehlen's artwork is on CDs by Gastr del Sol, Arthur Russell, and Brooklyn-based band Child Abuse.
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Albert Oehlen was Professor of Painting at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf from 2000 to 2009.
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Albert Oehlen is the brother of fellow artist Markus Albert Oehlen, and their father was an artist.
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Albert Oehlen's pictures possess no unity of composition, only unremitting energy.
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Albert Oehlen's 2007 painting, Loa, is part of the UK's Tate Collection.
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The works of Albert Oehlen are held, among others, in the following public collections:.