Georg Herold was born on 1947 and is a German artist.
13 Facts About Georg Herold
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In 1974, Georg Herold left the German Democratic Republic, went to Munich and attended the Academy of Fine Arts.
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Between the 80s and 90s, Georg Herold's work was influenced by Albrecht Durer's, whose Hare was created using roofing slats.
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Georg Herold was influenced by the Dada movement, whose specifics are found in his bizarre and subversive works that refer to the consumerist society.
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Georg Herold uses non-traditional mediums, lower grade everyday materials that are not commonly used in art.
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Georg Herold uses eclectic household and food items, like tights, aged cheese, tea strainers, photos, and various plants, thus, transforming the role of canvas by changing it into a support that outspreads "from the frame into the picture".
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Since 1989, Georg Herold has been created abstract figures made of Beluga caviar, a sort of abstract expressionism like the Untitled series.
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Georg Herold portrayed different personalities like Mike Tyson, Bertrand Russell, Lionel Richie, William Burroughs, Sean Penn, Barry White, Charles de Gaulle Mark Lombardi and, he even has counted the number of fish eggs used for creating some of his caviar paintings.
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Georg Herold's sculpturing style is accepted as minimalism or Neo-Dada minimalism by art critiques, galleries and journalists.
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Georg Herold's sculpted figures often are slightly distorted, filiforms, stretched to the point of breaking, often reaching towards something, pushing their body postures, while trapped in an unbearable state.
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In 2012 took place a New Art Dealers Alliance fair in Chelsea where Georg Herold exhibited a 1989 caviar painting and an artwork made of bricks.
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Besides his artistic career, Georg Herold is a professor at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf in Dusseldorf.
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Georg Herold has exhibited his artwork in museums and galleries across the US and Europe.