{"id":28047,"date":"2023-05-11T13:47:58","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T11:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poll-berlin.de\/galerie\/?page_id=28047"},"modified":"2025-10-14T18:22:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T16:22:29","slug":"biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/poll-berlin.de\/galerie\/en\/gallery-artists\/matthias-beckmann\/biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>1965<\/td><td>born in Arnsberg<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1984-1990<\/td><td>Studies at the D\u00fcsseldorf Art Academy, with Prof. Franz Eggenschwiler<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1989<\/td><td>Master student with Prof. Franz Eggenschwiler<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1990-1992<\/td><td>Studies at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, with Prof. Rudolf Schoofs<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1992-1994<\/td><td>Lectureship at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1995<\/td><td>Co-Founder of the artist group \u201cDie Weissenhofer\u201d<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2000-2001<\/td><td>Lectureship at the Dortmund University<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2001-2002<\/td><td>Stand-in professorship at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2016-2017<\/td><td>Lectureship for Drawing at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2018<\/td><td>Lectureship for Drawing and Illustration, Wei\u00dfensee Academy of Art Berlin<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2023<\/td><td>Lectureship at the Wei\u00dfensee Academy of Art Berlin<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Matthias Beckmann lives and works in Berlin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Awards and grants (selection)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>2024<\/td><td>Art Residence OUR AIR, Nykarleby (Finland)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2022<\/td><td>bangaloREsidency, Goethe Institute, 1 Shanthi Road, Bangalore<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2020<\/td><td>Residence, Lichtenberg Studios, Berlin<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2018<\/td><td>Scholarship of the Stader Stiftung f\u00fcr Kultur und Geschichte<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2010<\/td><td>Albert Stuwe Award for drawing<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2001<\/td><td>Scholarship for Paris of the state of North-Rhine-Westphalia<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1999<\/td><td>Casa Baldi Scholarship of the German Academy in Rome, Olevano<br>Barkenhoff Scholarship, Worpswede<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1998<\/td><td>Working Scholarship of the Kunstfonds e.V., Bonn<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1996<\/td><td>Scholarship of the K\u00fcnstlerdorf Sch\u00f6ppingen<br>Graduate scholarship of the state of Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg<br>GWK-Award for supporting art, M\u00fcnster<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1990<\/td><td>Joseph Fassbender Award for Drawing and Printmaking, Br\u00fchl<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography 1965 born in Arnsberg 1984-1990 Studies at the D\u00fcsseldorf Art Academy, with Prof. Franz Eggenschwiler 1989 Master student with Prof. Franz Eggenschwiler 1990-1992 Studies at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, with Prof. Rudolf Schoofs 1992-1994 Lectureship at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences 1995 Co-Founder of the artist group \u201cDie Weissenhofer\u201d 2000-2001 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":28045,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"kuenstler-text.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28047","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poll-berlin.de\/galerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poll-berlin.de\/galerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poll-berlin.de\/galerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poll-berlin.de\/galerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poll-berlin.de\/galerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28047"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/poll-berlin.de\/galerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44357,"href":"https:\/\/poll-berlin.de\/galerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28047\/revisions\/44357"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poll-berlin.de\/galerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poll-berlin.de\/galerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}