Bertrand Freiesleben
Bertrand Freiesleben (born 4 October 1967 in Lübeck, West Germany) is a German artist. Early life
Freiesleben's father is a microbiologist and his mother works as a hand weaver. Education and career 
After Graduating from Johanneum zu Lübeck and the completion of his civil service, he studied sculpture at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel. However, he abandoned his studies to relocate to New York City where he worked as a conceptual artist till 1992. After returning to Germany, he studied both the History of Art and Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin till 1998. In 1998, he received the Grand Prix de l’Académie des Beaux-Arts (Prix de portrait Paul-Louis Weiller) of the Institut de France. After the completion of his studies, Freiesleben taught compositional analysis and surface geometry at the Institute of Art History

at the Free University of Berlin till 2005. In 2000, he was invited to be a guest professor at Université Paris 8 to initiate and direct the Erasmus Intensive Program “La sculpture dans la ville”. Freiesleben works only from live models. For the past three decades, his work has been largely devoted to sculpted portraits. He is married to the painter Eva Scheide and they have three children. They live and work in Berlin, Germany. References
Künstler Bertrand Freiesleben at Der Tagesspiegel (in German)
Bertrand Freiesleben at Stilwerk (in German)

External links
Bertrand Freiesleben official website

1967 births
Living people
Artists from Lübeck
German sculptors
German male sculptors
Contemporary sculptors
Portrait artists
Free University of Berlin