WATTS INDEXThe canonical database of visual culture
Astrid Klein
1951
WA-00007710
Painting
Representation
None documented
0
Institutional Exhibitions
0
Works in Collection
17
Assets Indexed
3
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
50%
Profile Completeness
Cultural Positioning
Influence Graph
No influence edges encoded yet.
Field Verification (3 fields)
1 cross-verified · 2 single-source
- Birth yearArtsy· 92%✓
- NationalityWikidata· 92%
- LocationWikidata· 80%
Source Registry (1)
- Spruth-MagersTier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
About
Why this artist matters now
Astrid Klein merges appropriated text and found imagery in large-scale paintings, neon sculptures, and light installations. Since the early 1970s she has layered literary and philosophical fragments, including excerpts from Arno Schmidt, over sexualized mass-media imagery, producing densely stratified compositions that foreground the tension between legibility and obscurity, memory and erasure.
Source: Spruth Magers · Trust score: 100% · Updated 2mo ago
Graph relationships
Taste overlap and adjacency
Movement
—
Medium
Painting
Related Artists
6 in graph
Record
Images
16 assets
View all 16 media items →
Relationships
1Collections1
Institutional
Representation & Collections
Represented by
Sprüth Magers
CurrentRecord
Exhibitions and timeline
No exhibitions or timeline entries yet