`Der Klub der wilden Maler´

The recipient of the 2015 MoMu Award was Marie-Sophie Beinke (°1990, Munich, Germany), with her collection ‘Der Klub der wilden Maler’.

Marie-Sophie Beinke took the life and work of the German painters group of Die Brücke (or ‘the club of the wild painters’, 1905–1913), as a starting point for her menswear collection, which questions what it means to be a man.

Woodcuts and primitivism play a large role in this art movement which is translated into the collection by woodprints of the basic geometric shapes like a triangle, circle and a square.

The art of Die Brücke was emotionally agitated, colorful and expressionistic, highly creative and non-naturalistic, yet never totally abstract.

Die Brücke even made the similar French Fauves movement seem tame in comparison.

Beinke studied the painters’ casual, nonchalant and elegant poses, clothes and mannerisms as well as their smart suits, which contrasted with their radical outlook on art, nature and life.

The collection tells a story in two parts: one is more abstract with woodcuts and geometric shapes, the second part becomes more wild with reliefs, embroidery, tufting and knitwear of mental landscapes and wild motifs.

The two parts are not separate but they fuse from one movement towards the other, just like the painters from Die Brücke formed a bridge between present and past.

In her own words: the silhouettes of the two parts are all another feeling of the same.

Following her graduation, Marie-Sophie Beinke did a six month internship at Walter Van Beirendonck, where she worked as his Assistant Designer until March 2017. Since October 2016 - August 2017, Beinke was teaching the Master Course Drawing and Graphics as Guest Lecturer at the Fashion Department of the Artesis Plantijn Hogeschool Antwerpen.


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