14 Facts About Winfried Muthesius

Since the 2001 death of his wife, Marianne Winfried Muthesius, he has owned a real-estate company.

Winfried Muthesius studied at the Berlin School of Arts from 1979 to 1984.

Winfried Muthesius was a student of Hermann Wiesler, whose designs influenced him.

Winfried Muthesius received a working scholarship to the Kunstlerhaus Salzburg in 1987, and a series of Salzburg pictures dates to this time.

In New York, Winfried Muthesius sketched soaring room perspectives and architectural highlights, particularly of the World Trade Center.

Winfried Muthesius began to develop the technique of pittura oscura in 1992.

Winfried Muthesius has focused to monochrome images in gold, such as the Golden Fields and Der Himmel unter Berlin, since 2002.

Winfried Muthesius is inspired by the concrete forms in a room, which he outlines, paints, photographs, paints over, further processes, installs and places in new contexts.

Winfried Muthesius intends to bring the observer into a conflict of perception which might alter their perspectives and views.

Winfried Muthesius' starting point is an object whose core he reveals with a variety of techniques and reductions in several processes.

Winfried Muthesius refers to our collective memory through the construction of which he demands from the observer.

Winfried Muthesius's cross is presence, no reference, and thus obtains ancient ecclesiastical traditions which have long been forgotten in the historical concoctions which are presented to us in a lot of the pieces found in new "church art".

Winfried Muthesius has in mind not only discontinuities, he celebrates them.

Winfried Muthesius puts his finger on the sore spot of the inadequacy, knowing that the essence still needs to happen.