Martin Eder

Martin Eder (born 31 August 1968 in Augsburg) is a German painter. He lives and works in Berlin

Life and career

Eder grew up in Batzenhofen. From 1986, he studied communication design at the Augsburg University of Applied Sciences, graduating in 1992. He then worked for a time in an advertising agency. From 1993 to 1995, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg. From 1996 to 1999, he studied under Eberhard Bosslet at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and was Bosslet's master student from 1999 to 2001. Eder is represented internationally by the EIGEN + ART Gallery Berlin/Leipzig.[1] He plays in his own experimental rock band under the name Richard Ruin et Les Demoniaques.[2]

In 2018 Eder painted The Unknowable which was sold and ended up in the collection of British artist Damien Hirst.[3] Soon after, another artist named Daniel Conway became aware of the painting after a visit to Hirst's Newport Street Gallery in London. Conway filed a lawsuit to the effect that Eder had willfully plagiarized a part of his painting Scorched Earth. The court case took three years to reach a verdict, until Germany's legal system decided that Eder's painting didn't infringe on the Conways copyright protections, legally declaring Eder's work a pastiche that lawfully samples from the original artwork.[3]

The painting also contains the work Monastery ruins in the snow (1819) by Caspar David Friedrich.

"I thought I had to fight this fight because it was about the freedom of art," Eder said. "If you steal something, that is completely different. But within a collage, it gains a different meaning."[3] Conway has appealed the judgement.

References

  1. ^ "Warum Diet Pradas Plagiatsvorwurf gegen Martin Eder absurd ist | Monopol".
  2. ^ "Ich wusste, ich will nicht sterben" – Interview with Ijoma Mangold in ZEITmagazin number 2 from 7 January 2010
  3. ^ a b c Brown, Kate (11 April 2022). "How Meme Culture and a Landmark Legal Case Against an Artist in Germany May Loosen Europe's Tight Copyright Regulations". Artnet News. Retrieved 25 November 2023.

Further reading

  • "Visuell 25. Fünfundzwanzig Jahre Sammlung Deutsche Bank", published by the Deutsche Guggenheim (as part of the exhibition commemorating the 25th anniversary of the collection, 30 April – 19 June 2005), Berlin 2005, S. 80.
  • "Martin Eder: Die Kalte Kraft", published by the Kunstverein Lingen Kunsthalle (as part of the exhibition of the same name of the Kunstverein Lingen Kunsthalle, 15 August 2004 – 10 October 2004), Ostfildern-Ruit 2004, ISBN 3-7757-1474-X.
  • "Martin Eder. Memoirs of My Nervous Illness", published by the Brandenburgischen Kunstverein Potsdam e.V (as part of the exhibition: Martin Eder "Phantasie der Erwachsenen," Brandenburgischer Kunstverein, 14 February 2003 – 14 March 2003), Potsdam 2003.
  • "2003 Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße in Bremen", published by the Stifterkreis für den Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße in Bremen (as part of the exhibition "Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße in Bremen," 2 March 2003 – 13 April 2003), Bramsche 2003.
  • "The Undead" (part of the solo exhibition of Martin Eder), 2001.
  • "Something Slightly Different/ From The Beginning After The End...", published by the Phillip Morris New York Foundation.
  • "The Return Of The Anti-Soft", published by the Städtische Kunstsammlungen Augsburg (as part of the Eder exhibition "Forever isn't very long"), Augsburg 2001.
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