About the Artist Franz Ackermann

Franz Ackermann (b. 1963 in Neumarkt-Sankt Veit) translates the experience of modern travel into an unmistakable visual language. It begins with his "Mental Maps" — small-format watercolours and gouaches he has recorded on journeys around the globe since 1991. In large-scale paintings and expansive installations these condense into luminous, high-energy worlds where cartographic structures, architectural views and ornamental patterns merge. Ackermann studied at the academies in Munich and Hamburg, among others under Bernhard Blume, and has taught as professor of painting in Karlsruhe since 2001. His works are on display in major international museums and collections and rank among the most instantly recognisable positions in contemporary German painting.