- Visual Art
Neukölln is quiet
Matthias Beckmann
28 June 2024 19:00 – 30 June 2024 19:00
In the summer of 2023, I drew on the streets of Neukölln, especially on Sonnenallee and Karl-Marx-Straße. When I sit on my painter's stool, draw lines and watercolor some details, peace returns. The babble of voices and the sounds of the cars become a steady murmur, and where I used to see movement, there now seems to be stillness. I notice all the details that I usually tend to overlook.
Biography
Matthias Beckmann
Matthias Beckmann was born in Arnsberg in 1965 and lives as a draughtsman in Berlin. He studied at the art academies in Düsseldorf and Stuttgart. Matthias Beckmann draws in front of the motif, without photographic aids, without preparatory sketches and without corrections. His artistic work has been supported by a working grant from Kunstfonds Bonn and a grant from Künstlerhäuser Worpswede, among others. In 2022 he was in Bangalore on a scholarship from the Goethe-Institut. Matthias Beckmann's works can be found in many graphic art collections, including in Berlin, Bonn, Bremen, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Duisburg, Oberhausen and Wuppertal.
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