Markus Linnenbrink
b. 1961, Dortmund Germany
from the artist
“I had not made monotypes before working with master printer James Stroud at Center Street Studio. I wanted to find a way of working that stayed very close to the process in my own studio. So we mixed up large amounts of printing ink in various colors and adjusted them in viscosity so that they would interact with each other on the press. I painted directly on the stainless steel press bed passing the paper through with a great deal of pressure. Each print was made with one pass. The excess ink gathered in pools after the initial print was made. A new sheet was placed on the pool of ink and run through the press in the opposite direction to create ghost prints that we titled Mudhoneys. These were often paired with the first pulls to form diptychs. Unique prints made on such large scale sheets feel like paintings on paper and relate directly to the work in my own studio.”
EMOTIONALDETOX(AFFENFAUST) (2025)
THESECONDHEARTONFIRE (2023)
ALLEYESABLAZETHEDAYYOUBREAKYOURMOLD (2022)
THEREARESPACESTHATBREATHE (2021)
ASALLTHINGSMUSTSURELYHAVETOEND (2021)
IHEARDYOULOOKING(SCHRÄG) (2015)
MUDHONEY(Nov15) (2015)
EVENTHOUGHYOUHAVETOGO (2015)
IHEARDYOULOOKING (2013)
VALLEYOFTHEDOLLS (2009)
METHINKSYOURIGHTNOPROBLEM (2004)
ICH MAG DEIN GRUN (2004)
Juicy (2002) and Joe's Mama (2002)
Selected Collections
AOK, Paderborn
AXA Insurance, Luxembourg
The Art CollTrust, Bellevue, WA
Bank One, Chicago, IL
Borusan Contemporary Art Collection, Istanbul, Turkey
Capitol One Bank, Chicago
Ciba GmbH Bergkamen (floor painting)
City of Stuttgart (wall painting)
Clemens - Sels - Museum, Neuss
Commerzbank Landeszentrale, Erfurt
Deutsche Ausgleichsbank, Bonn
Deutsche Effecten - und Wechsel - Beteiligungsgesellschaft, Frankfurt/Main
Center Court, The Hague, The Netherlands (wall painting)
Ergo Insurances Duesseldorf
Fidelity Investments, Boston
Gerling Kozern, Köln
The Hague, Ministry of Culture, The Netherlands
Harvard Business School, Cambridge, MA
Herzliya Museum of Art, Israel
Justiz Vollzugs Anstalt Duesseldorf Rath (wall floor ceiling painting)
KfW Bankengruppe, Bonn
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, NH
Hotel Künstlerheim-Luise, Berlin (wall painting)
Krupp Konzern, Berlin
Kunsthalle Recklinghausen
Landesverband Lippe Lemgo (wall painting)
Land Nordrhein Westfalen / Fachhochschule Niederrhein (wall painting)
Museum Neue Galerie, Kassel
Nordstern Versicherung, Köln
Norddeutsche Landesbank, Hannover
NBC Rockefeller Center, New York
The Progressive Corporation, Ohio, USA
Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt/Main
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
San Jose Museum of Art, California
Senat der Stadt, Berlin
Collection Julien J. Studley Inc., Chicago, IL
UCLA Hammer Museum, University of California Los Angeles, CA
UBS Germany
Volksbank, Ahlen
Volksbank, Heilbronn/Neckarsulm
Wellington Corporation, London
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, MA
Werner Richard - Dr. Carl Dörken Stiftung Herdecke, Depositum Museum am Ostwall
West Collection, Philadelphia