Wendelin Wohlgemuth

Wendelin Wohlgemuth is a German-American oil painter currently living in Washington State. Since his graduation from Western Washington University in 2013, he has exhibited his work internationally in the US and Europe. Wohlgemuth has become associated with the ‘Disrupted Realism’ movement in contemporary figurative painting.
His work focuses on the interplay between paint’s two main functions: both as a window into another space and as a purely physical presence that confronts the viewer. His reference material comes from various archived video footage—from news broadcasts to YouTube videos to tv commercials. Through his layered, gridded, and textured approach to figurative oil painting, Wohlgemuth’s work responds to the fragmentation of our collective reality and the struggle for meaning in the Information Age.