Markus Schinwald valuation
Austrian artist who adds strange prostheses to 19th-century portraits and represented Austria at Venice in 2011.
Markus Schinwald was born in Salzburg in 1973, studied at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Linz and at the Humboldt University in Berlin, and lives and works in Vienna and New York.
What a work by Markus Schinwald is worth
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Bio
Markus Schinwald was born in Salzburg in 1973, studied at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Linz and at the Humboldt University in Berlin, and lives and works in Vienna and New York. His early training in fashion and costume history runs through his work, which takes in painting, sculpture, film, performance, dance, puppetry and installation, and centres on the body as something shaped and constrained by culture. Jubelhemd, of 1997, is a shirt with its arms sewn in upside down, caught between surrender and celebration. He is best known for his paintings on 19th-century portraits, bought as found and overpainted with veils, bandages, wires and braces, what he has called prostheses for unspecified cases, which turn polite sitters into something unsettling. He represented Austria at the Venice Biennale in 2011, filling the pavilion with a labyrinth of suspended walls, and has taught at Yale and, since 2021, at the art academy in Karlsruhe.
The overpainted portraits are unique, and since the underlying painting is an antique, its age and condition are part of the work: old craquelure, relining and earlier restoration should be distinguished from his additions, and both need a careful condition report. Sculptures built from parts of furniture, puppets and films in editions also come up, with their certificates. Thaddaeus Ropac represents him.
Salzburg, Linz and the Austrian pavilion
Solo museum exhibitions include the Migros Museum in Zurich in 2008, the Kunsthaus Bregenz in 2009, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris in 2013 and the CCA Wattis Institute in San Francisco in 2014.
His work is in the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Tate and the Belvedere in Vienna.
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