Rosemarie Trockel

Untitled, 1986
black and white wool on canvas, 14 x 14 inches (36.8 x 36.8 cm)

Untitled, 1986
black and white wool on canvas, 14 x 14 inches (36.8 x 36.8 cm)

Untitled, 1986
black and white wool on canvas, 14 x 14 inches (36.8 x 36.8 cm)

Untitled, 1986
black and white wool on canvas, 14 x 14 inches (36.8 x 36.8 cm)

all images courtesy of the Rubell Family Collection

Seven things you need to know about ROSEMARIE TROCKEL:

  1. she was born in the town of Schwerte in Westphalia in Germany
  2. after studying painting at the Werkkunstschule in Cologne from 1974 to 1978,
  3. she took her first artistic steps in the immediate vicinity of the Cologne artist group Mülheimer Freiheit
  4. the mid-1980s saw the start of her knitted pictures and knitted objects, which made her well-known internationally
  5. where she played with materiality and typical feminine arts and crafts techniques
  6. since then, her work has ranged over a wide variety of subjects and forms comprising pictures and drawings, sculptures and objects, as well as video works and installations
  7. more recently, she received the 2011 Kaiserring Award, given by the city of of Goslar, Germany


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