Armin Baumgarten

Armin Baumgarten (born 25 September 1967 in Wolfsburg) is a German painter and sculptor.Armin Baumgarten spent his childhood in Lower Saxony and dealt early with drawing and painting, supported by his art teacher Wilfried Wöhler also with etching.

After graduating from Humboldt Gymnasium in Gifhorn and alternative civilian service in Brunswick, he started there in 1989 at the Braunschweig University of Art the study of Painting.

His teachers were Hinnerk Schrader, Karl Moller, D. Arwed Gorella and Hermann Albert, his master pupil in 1996 he had been.

From the painting originally thin liquid Armin Baumgarten came to a very tactile, impasto ductus gain by the motifs a physical presence.

This image is compressed in the work process in a reduced to the essential iconic shape that is possible directly sensual and physically not only visible to the viewer, but also experienced.