Troels Wörsel
Encyclopedia
Troels Wörsel is a Danish
painter
, currently based in Cologne
and Pietra Santa.
"Troels Wörsel is self-taught and since the 1970s.
In the 1970s he was interested mostly in Pop art and conceptual art. Moreover philosophical issues such as the relationship between space and time characterised his art.
In the early 1980s the purely painterly caught his interest more than the idea behind the work. He experimented with the wild painting and contributed to the pioneer exhibition Rundschau Deutschland and Bildwechsel at West Berlin's Akademie der Künste.
In 1995 Wörsel was awarded the Eckersberg Medal, and in 2002 he won Carnegie Art Award's first prize with three paintings all of which, like Untitled ("illare idea"), were executed on the reverse of the canvas."
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
painter
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
, currently based in Cologne
Cologne
Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...
and Pietra Santa.
"Troels Wörsel is self-taught and since the 1970s.
In the 1970s he was interested mostly in Pop art and conceptual art. Moreover philosophical issues such as the relationship between space and time characterised his art.
In the early 1980s the purely painterly caught his interest more than the idea behind the work. He experimented with the wild painting and contributed to the pioneer exhibition Rundschau Deutschland and Bildwechsel at West Berlin's Akademie der Künste.
In 1995 Wörsel was awarded the Eckersberg Medal, and in 2002 he won Carnegie Art Award's first prize with three paintings all of which, like Untitled ("illare idea"), were executed on the reverse of the canvas."