early life and education charline von heyl, a german artist born in 1960, has been making waves in the art world with her abstract paintings. born to a german lawyer and french-born psychologist in mainz, von heyl grew up in bonn and later studied with jörg immendorff at hochschule für bildende künste hamburg and with fritz schwegler at kunstakademie düsseldorf. artistic style and technique von heyl's work is characterized by its use of a wide range of imagery, from found photographs to drawings of comic books. she alternates between collage-based works on paper and painting on canvas, often…