What is Dieter Borst?
{{Infobox artist | name = Dieter Borst | image = Dieter Borst.jpg | image_size = 240px | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1950|5|12}} | birth_place = [[Schramberg]], [[Germany]] | nationality = [[Germany|German]] }} '''Dieter Borst''' (born 12 May 1950) is a [[Germans|German]] painter and [[Sculpture|sculptor]] of 20th century [[art]]. ==Career== Borst was born on 12 May 1950 in [[Schramberg]], Germany. As a painter, he specialized in informal painting. The basic element in his paintings is the line, which is carried through colored segments. In 1969 he studied at the American School of Art in Munich. In 1972 he took a half year study trip to [[West Africa]]. In 1973 he started painting. In 1997 he moved to [[Gran Canaria]]. In 2007 his atelier burned in an island fire on Gran Canaria. Hundreds of paintings of all phases of his working life were destroyed. ==Exhibits== Borst's works were exhibited in New York, Fort Lauderdale / Miami, Cologne and Gran Canaria. ==Paintings== <gallery> Image:Borst schwarz 4.jpg | Image:Woman - wood.jpg| Image:Documenta 14 borst 7.jpg| Image:Dieter borst 1.jpg| Image:Borst0015.jpg| Image:Documenta 14.jpg| Image:2011 borst 10.jpg| Image:Borst0027.jpg| Image:Borst0001.jpg| Image:Documenta 14 borst 9.jpg| Image:Borst0030.jpg| Image:Ny borst 5.jpg| </gallery> ==Literature== * Author: Diana Neubauer: ''Dieter Borst – Art Informel 2013'', Verlag: Bod, {{ISBN|978-3-7322-5015-8}} == Museum / Gallery == * Broadway Gallery, New York * Gallery Colonial House Inn, New York * The Grand, Fort Lauderdale, Florida * Galerie Tempestas, Cologne * Galeria de Arte, Spain/Gc ==References== * [http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/?p=8002 New York Arts Magazine, ''Dieter Borst''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140112180930/http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/?p=8002 |date=2014-01-12 }} * [http://www.lexikonia.de/225879_dieter_borst.htm# Lexikonia – Enzyklopädie, ''Dieter Borst''] * [http://www.artfairsinternational.com/?attachment_id=2395 Artfairsinter