About the Artist Jannis Marwitz

Jannis Marwitz (b. 1985 in Nuremberg) paints and draws figuratively, often drawing his motifs from elegiac, mythologically charged sources such as Greco-Roman funerary monuments. With an idiosyncratic, frequently acerbic palette, he joins old painting techniques to a markedly contemporary feel. Marwitz lives and works in Brussels and has been represented by galleries including Barbara Weiss and Lucas Hirsch; his first institutional solo exhibition in Germany was staged by the Dortmunder Kunstverein.