Christoph Schmidberger
Christoph Schmidberger is a painter based in Los Angeles. He studied from 1989-1994 at the Higher Technical College of Graphic Art in Graz, Austria, and graduated with an Honours and Master of Art from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in 2002.
His works, drawn or painted in a hyperreal style, typically use traditional compositional forms to portray youthful eroticised figures relaxing in modern suburban settings..
Schmidberger’s work has been shown internationally at galleries and museums such as the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art in California, the Landesmuseum Joanneum in Graz, Austria, and the Royal Academy in London. His work features in several important collections including the Saatchi Gallery, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Joslyn Museum of Art, and Österreichische Galerie Belvedere.
He is represented by Patrick Painter Inc. in Santa Monica, California, and Union Gallery in London.Selected Public Collections
- Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
- The Saatchi Collection, London
- Los Angeles County Museum Of Art, Los Angeles, CA
- Museum Of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
- Joslyn Museum Of Art, Omaha, NE
- Frederic R. Weismann Collection, Los Angeles, CA
- Neue Galerie Am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
- Korban Art Foundation, New York
- Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brüssels
- Volpinum Kunstsammlung, Vienna
