Detlev Foth (1959)

Detlev Foth

Detlev James Foth is a German painter. He studied free painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1979 to 1985. During the second semester his first solo exhibition took place at the Galeria de Arte Sala Goya in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. In 2001 he received an invitation from the Foreign Office in Berlin to hold a solo exhibition at the German Business Club in São Paulo, Brazil. He was the first German artist to have a solo exhibition at the Portuguese Cultural Institute (Instituto Camões) in Luanda, Angola. In 2012 the painter had, among other things, a solo exhibition at the Arthropologie Gallery, Cairo, Egypt. His works can be found in private collections and in public spaces. In addition to painting, Detlev Foth deals with literature and has published numerous plays, novels, short stories and poems.