MARWAN KASSAB BACHI

Biography

b. 1934, Damascus
d. 2016, Berlin

Marwan Kassab Bachi, known as Marwan, was an artist and educator. His visual vocabulary is saturated with socio-political memory, an obsession with deconstructing portraiture and the inner human psyche. His post-surrealist paintings, associated with the German New Figuration Movement present landscapes and heads consolidated to form a universe of the soul, conveying his obsession with the anguish of the human condition. 

 

Works exhibited in Hamburg:

Munif al Razzaz (1965)
Untitled (1969)

 

Works exhibited in Sharjah:   

Untitled (1969)

participating artists