Michael van Ofen (1956)

Michael van Ofen

Michael van Ofen is a German artist who lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Van Ofen's works are based on well-known paintings from the nineteenth century. He takes them apart into pictorial elements and reassembles them like a mosaic or a puzzle, in the process creating a new work, alienated from its roots, but faithful to its original idea and form. The objects in the artist's works are divided down to the brushstrokes, they are usually dominated by a single color.