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German visual artist

Markus Oehlen
Born	1956 (age 68–69)
Nationality	German
Known for	painting, sculpture, music
Movement	Junge Wilde

Markus Oehlen (born 1956) is a German painter, sculpture and musician.

In Oehlen began making drawings on the computer without knowing too much about the technical details.

In the 1970s and 80s he was a founding member of the influential neo-expressionist art movement Neue Wilde in Düsseldorf, alongside Martin Kippenberger, Markus Lüpertz, and his brother Albert Oehlen.^[1]

Biography

Markus Oehlen was born in Krefeld.

His father, Adolf Oehlen, was a graphic designer and cartoonist. Oehlen completed an apprenticeship as a technical draftsman, from 1971 to 1973. He studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, from 1976 to 1982, where he was a student with Alfonso Hüppi.

As an anarchic pictorial inventor, since the s he has revolted against any visual convention and aesthetic convenience.

As an anarchic pictorial inventor, since the s he has revolted against any visual convention and aesthetic convenience.

Klaus Kertess examines the years from onwards, when Oehlen saw himself more self-consciously as a painter and started his first abstract works, then.

Albert Oehlen studied in Hamburg with Sigmar Polke, played a central role in a prodigious group of artists who came to the fore in the '80s.

Markus Oehlen (born ) lives and works in Munich.

Oehlen was a student of Sigmar Polke, a German painter, photographer and professor who challenged the boundaries between figuration and abstraction.

In 1977 he met Martin Kippenberger.

In 1981 he formed the “Church of Indifference” together with Werner Büttner and his brother Albert. In the same year he exhibited at Rundschau Deutschland. In 1984 he was represented