Charline von Heyl

Art Brokerage: Charline von Heyl German Artist: b. 1960. Charline von Heyl is a contemporary German painter known for her dynamic abstract works. Von Heyl's oeuvre is inspired by both popular culture and art historical references. "My paintings usually hide their traces and their own history," she has said of her work. "They have weird shifts where you don't expect them, and at their best they will have an auratic presence despite themselves. It's not about mystifying anything; it's about lengthening the time of pleasure. Or torture." Born in 1960 in Mainz, Germany, she went on to study under the artist Fritz Schwegler at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. In the 1980s, she moved to Cologne where she worked alongside prevalent German painters, such as Martin Kippenberger and Christopher Wool between New York, NY and Marfa, TX. Today, her works are held in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, among others. Listings wanted.