Charline von heyl paintings

German abstract painter (born 1960)

Charline von Heyl (born 1960) is a German abstract painter.^[1] She also works with drawing, printmaking, and collage. She moved to the United States in the 1990s, and has studios in New York City and in Marfa, Texas.^[2] She is currently represented by Petzel Gallery.

Life

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Von Heyl was born in Mainz and spent her childhood in Bonn.

Charline von Heyl | Eleni Koroneou Gallery

Her father was a lawyer, her mother a psychologist.^[3] She studied painting at the Hochschule für bildende Künste of Hamburg under Jörg Immendorff, and at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Fritz Schwegler. In the mid-1990s she moved to New York City,^[4] where she has a studio in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.^[5][3]

Since 1997, Charline von Heyl has been married to fellow artist Christopher Wool.

Work

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In 2005, von Heyl's exhibition Concentrations 48: Charline von Heyl^[6] was held at the Dallas Museum of Art in