Barbara Muhr works as a visual artist predominantly in large-scale figurative paintings as well as screenprints. Her colorful works combine realistic but mostly fictitious portraits with abstract surroundings and overlaps. She mixes acrylic and oil paint with crayon drawings and tapes to indicate different layers of physical and psychic states of people. Her motifs derive from classical art history and literature such as allegories and iconography of love and death, which are transferred into contemporary topics of coming-of-age and identity crises. Currently she works in her studio in Regensburg and exhibits in Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic and was awarded several art prizes in Germany.
Muhr Barbara_Couple goals_2019
Muhr Barbara_Mit dir - Herz im Kopf_2022
Born 1988 in Straubing (Germany)
2007–13 Studies of Fine Arts, English and Art History at the University of Regensburg
2016–21 Research assistant and lecturer for Art History at the University of Regensburg
2017 Cultural Sponsorship Award, Straubing
2017 SPARDA Art Award, Amberg
2018 Sparkasse Young Art Award, Passau
2021 Artist in Residence in Pilsen (CZ)
2022 Award for Figurative Art, Bodenseekreis
Muhr Barbara_There were three of us (too high, too far, too soon)_2022_Foto Knorr