Benedict Webb (18 May 1976 – 22 September 2014) was a Dunedin, New Zealand-born artist, dividing his time between working in New Zealand and Germany.
His images are frequently portraits from Weimar Germany in the years preceding World War II, although he has also employed still lifes as subject matter.
[2] These photographic images are recreated in large format, then distressed by the addition of pigment to form works which evoke strong reactions of melancholy or nostalgia, both in terms of their subject matter and their treatment.
[5] Webb started exhibiting his work at the age of 19, and was the youngest New Zealand artist to have shown in a public gallery and to represent the country in a biennale, in Nouméa in 1999.
He held Berlin's Goethe Institut residency in 2002 and has exhibited in Argentina, Australia, Germany, and Sweden as well as in his native New Zealand.