Bastienne Schmidt (born 1961) is a German artist who works in painting, large-scale drawing and photography. Since 1989, Schmidt has worked as a freelance photojournalist for German and American newspapers and magazines.[1]

Her work deals with the correlation between the imagination and the "significance of environment", by referencing the psychological as well as the physical space around us.[2]

She has exhibited her work at the International Center of Photography, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, among other venues.[2]

Collections

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Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston,[3] the Brooklyn Museum,[4] the Museum of Modern Art, New York,[5] the Victoria and Albert Museum,[6] the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona,[7]

References

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  1. ^ "Sueddeutsche Zeitung" (PDF). 2015-12-28. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-12-28. Retrieved 2022-10-15.
  2. ^ a b WM. "Topography of Quiet: Bastienne Schmidt". Whitehot Magazine.
  3. ^ "Bastienne Schmidt: Sitting on a Red Daybed, Bridgehampton, NY". mfah.org.
  4. ^ "Brooklyn Museum". www.brooklynmuseum.org.
  5. ^ "Bastienne Schmidt | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art.
  6. ^ Museum, Victoria and Albert. "Wall of graves, Bogota, Colombia | Bastienne Schmidt | V&A Explore The Collections". Victoria and Albert Museum: Explore the Collections.
  7. ^ "Online Collections". Center for Creative Photography. 22 November 2019.