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Albert Oehlen
The Radical Alchemy of Albert Oehlen In the turbulent landscape of late twentieth-century German art, few figures command as much intellectual and visual authority as Albert Oehlen. Born in Krefeld in 1954, Oehlen emerged not merely as a painter, but as a provocateur who sought to dismantle the very sanctity of the canvas. His journey is one of deliberate disruption, a career defined by a refusal to settle into any single movement or a
esthetic certainty. While his contemporaries often leaned into the emotional weight of Neo-Expressionism, Oehlen embarked on a more cerebral and rebellious path, treating the act of painting as a site of experimental collision where abstraction and figuration engage in a perpetual, restless struggle. Oehlen’s formative years were steeped in the avant-garde energy of Berlin and Hamburg. Studying at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Ha…
