Justine Otto
Justine Otto (born 1974) is a German painter. Life. Otto was born in Poland. In 1983, she moved to Germany. Between 1997 and 2000, she worked as a stage designer at the Municipal Theatre Frankfurt. In 1996, she studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts (Städelschule) in Frankfurt am Main, and was a master student in professional free painting, where she studied with Peter Angermann and Michael Krebber. In 2003, she graduated. Otto lives in Hamburg and Frankfurt. Works. The central theme of her work are adolescent people and their feelings. Otto leaves its protagonists, mostly young  girls, make puzzling actions. Otto takes a neutral observer position and confronts the viewer with the process of growing up. By soft merging into one another light and shadow zones interrupted by harsh color accents, it produces a strong vitality. This creates body landscapes that their characters a strong authenticity.