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Current Work
"The German orphanage in Sao Paolo is a document of history's strange knots. It is not a home for the poor. And some of the children brought to the orphanage were not really orphans. Their parents, in Brazil for different reasons - probably World War II related, probably representing all sides of the vicious fighting and killing - just could not afford to raise them properly. Education in a German institution obviously seemed the best solution.
"The pictures of the orphanage show it as a stronghold of German values, values that were on the verge of disappearing in Germany itself. Discipline and cleanliness, eagerness to work, and obedience had found a home in Sao Paolo. A 'Heim,' a 'Kinderheim.' It was more likely to go through a proper German education in Brazil — or other far away places in South America, or South Africa or Asia, for that matter — than in postwar Germany itself. The children of the orphanage, the 'Heimkinder,' are raised according to ideals of a world that does not really exist anymore, anywhere." - Ute Holl, NY Arts Magazine |
Short Bio
Born in England, raised in Brazil, and moving later to Europe, Canada, and finally the United States, I have lived for the past 10 years in New York City. My work as a painter draws on my multi-national background and on my extensive travels to countries around the world as the child of Dutch and Yugoslavian emigrants, and on my childhood at a German boarding school in Sao Paulo. I received my formal training as a painter at SUNY/Buffalo, Brown University, and the Rhode Island School of Design.
As an undergraduate, I began to work in the bright primary colors which have come to typify my work, colors which were influenced by my memories of Brazil: by the favelas near my home, by Brazilian popular culture, by the luscious vegetation, and by the fortune tellers and spiritualists I visited as a teenager. I was also influenced by the work of the German Expressionists, Matisse, and Jacob Lawrence.
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Honors
The Mayor Randy Roach made Carmen Einfinger an Honorary Citizen of Lake Charles, at the opening night exhibition of True Colors in Lake Charles, Louisiana, 2005, right after the disasters of Hurricane Katrina and Rita. |
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Artist Location
New York, NY
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Type of artist
Painter/Sculptor, Performer
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General Themes
Children/Youth, Families/Parenting, Feminism/Gender Issues, Mass Media/Pop Culture, Mental Health/Psychology |
Keywords
childhood, primal |
| Last updated on July 31st, 2006 |
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