Uwe Fehrmann

Uwe Fehrmann was born in 1962 in East Berlin, in the former GDR. Even his early childhood was characterized by intensive painting and drawing. In his youth he was trained in nudes and still lifes as well as in various painting and drawing techniques at the “Otto-Nagel-Haus”. A little later he was a member of an artist group in Berlin-Pankow, did an internship as a restorer at the "Nationalgalerie Berlin" and worked as an exhibition assistant. After graduating from high school, Uwe Fehrmann studied at the “Humboldt University” in Berlin. In order to escape the lack of freedom and censorship in the GDR, he fled to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1984 via the German embassy in Prague. 1985 - 1986 Uwe Fehrmann worked as a visual artist at NDR Hamburg and at Studio Hamburg, primarily for theater, film and television, e.g. Cats in Hamburg. Uwe Fehrmann has been working full-time as a freelance artist in Hamburg since 1987. Study trips took him to Italy and France. 1987 - today the artist works on various art projects and mostly large-format paintings at home and abroad, including Germany, Belgium, Austria and Switzerland. Some of his pictures are about his social experiences in the GDR and have been exhibited several times by the federal authority BStU. In 2012, the Berlin Wall Foundation Berlin bought the painting Reconstruction. In 2011, Uwe Fehrmann exhibited together with Bernhard Heisig, Gudrun Brüne, Johannes Heisig and Antoinette at the English Church Cultural Center in Bad Homburg. 2012 - 2014 solo exhibitions on the topic "Thoughts are free" in Berlin, Leipzig and Frankfurt-Oder in the BStU - The Federal Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the former German Democratic Republic. 2012 picture purchase by the “Berlin Wall Foundation” Berlin In 2014, Uwe Fehrmann received the art prize of the Werner Viktor Toefflin Foundation in the Red Town Hall in Berlin for his painting Fata Morgana - Energy Cloud, which is now owned by the painting collection of the Stadtmuseum Berlin Foundation. In the same year, together with other selected artists, Uwe Fehrmann was invited by the President of the European Commission Dr. José Manuel Barroso and Dr. Angela Merkel to the 3rd General Assembly “NEW NARRATIVES FOR EUROPE” at the Berlin Academy of the Arts. 2014 Inclusion of the painting “Fata Morgana - Energy Cloud” in the Berlin City Museum Foundation 2015 Certificate of Excellence, PALM ART Award 2018 -2020 artistic collaboration with the children's aid organization "Plan International Deutschland" 2023 ART SHOW INTERNATIONAL GALLERY, Talent Price Award 2023 2023 German Business Awards 2023 / Illusion Painting Specialist of the Year 2023 - Uwe Fehrmann 2023 Lecturer in Mural Painting, MEGA 2024 INNOVATION & EXELLENCE AWARDS | Mural Painter of the Year - Uwe Fehrmann Solo and group exhibitions, lives and works in Hamburg and Berlin Memberships: Professional Association of Visual Artists Berlin Professional Association of Visual Artists Schleswig-Holstein