The Disciples

David Stern The Axiom 2019 Creation Year: 2020 Dimensions: Height: 71 in (180 cm)Width: 81 in (205 cm) Medium: Acrylic on cotton Movement & Style: Contemporary David Stern (Germany, b. 1956) Acrylics on cotton. Hand signed by artist, certificate of authenticity available. Key words used to describe this work by David: abstract figuration, expressionism cabalistic, mysticism, painting, action, pigments, acrylics. David Stern was born in Essen, Germany and lives in New York. Stern has referred to himself as an “action painter,” echoing the artistic legacies of New York School painters Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline. Yet his human forms reach further back to histories of portraiture. After an apprenticeship as a sign painter Stern attended the Dortmund Fachhochschule für Design and Art[1] (1975–79) and the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (1980–82). He then taught painting at the Dortmund Fachhochschule für Design and Art, while he developed his painting s