Wolfgang Ellenrieder | Biography | RH Gallery Contemporary Art and Design

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Born in 1959 in Munich, Germany. Currently lives in Munich, Germany.

          Ellenrieder graduated from Munich’s Akademie der Bildenden Kunst, and after several years in London and Paris, returned to Munich. Since 1989, he has exhibited widely in numerous group and solo exhibitions in Europe, Asia and the United States.
          Ellenrieder employs a variety of sources including diverse archives, stock photography and his own photography, collage and models to create compositions of unique perspectives and unlikely spaces that are simultaneously figurative and abstract. With a unique palette of muted shades of brown, blue, yellow, green, grey, purple and pink, he creates a world between truth and fiction.
          Ellenrieder’s work is underscored by his observation that the distortion of reality is always inherent in any potential truth that imagery may contain. A suspension of disbelief upon viewing imagery is no longer habitual but rather there exists an instinctive assumption of incongruity with reality. It is on this basic principle that the artwork of Wolfgang Ellenrieder is founded.