Martin Werthmann
Martin Werthmann (born 9 May 1982) is a German artist, who is living and working in Berlin. Career. Martin Werthmann studied from 2004 to 2009 at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg with . His teachers also included Wim Wenders, Fatih Akin and Daniel Richter. Works. Martin Werthmann mainly comprises large format wood block prints, which consist of several overlapping layers and are printed as unique pieces. The topics often circle around catastrophes, mostly transmitted from found photos. Beside his pictorial works, Werthmann creates large scale installations, like the piece "Vortex" from 2014, a water vortex with a diameter  of six meters that the observer could enter through the center. In 2019, he created his first scenery for the opera Die tote Stadt by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, directed by and musical direction by , which was discussed widely in German newspapers. Bibliography. Martin Werthmann, Catastrophe as Space, by Hirmer Publishers, with contribution of: Norman Rosenthal, Barbara Scheuermann, Andrew Berardini, Hubertus Günther, Sarah Diefenthaler, Marcus Trautner, Munich 2021, Martin Werthmann: SILENCE, published by Marcus Trautner, Munich, 2019,