Martin Eder

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Martin Eder (born 31 August 1968 in Augsburg) is a German artist.

From 1986 until 1992, he studied at the

In 2018 Eder painted "The Unknowable" which was sold and ended up in the collection of British artist Damien Hirst^[3] soon after another artist named Daniel Conway became aware of the painting after a visit to Hirsts Newport Street Gallery in London. Conway filed a lawsuit to the effect that Eder had willfully plagiarized a part of the painting from Conways "Scorched Earth". The court case took three years to reach a verdict, until Germanys legal system decided that Eder’s painting didn’t infringe on the Conways copyright protections, legally declaring Eder’s work a pastiche that lawfully samples from the original artwork.^[3]

The painting also contains the "Monastery ruins in the snow" (1819)by Caspar David Friedrich

“I thought I had to fight this fight because it was about the freedom of art,” Eder said. “If you steal something, that is completely different. But within a collage, it gains a different meaning.”^[3]

Conway has appealed the judgement.

References

Further reading

• "Visuell 25. Fünfundzwanzig Jahre Sammlung Deutsche Bank", published by the Deutsche Guggenheim (as part of the exhibition commemorating the 25th anniversary of the collection, 30 April – 19 June 2005), Berlin 2005, S. 80.
• "Martin Eder: Die Kalte Kraft", published by the Kunstverein Lingen Kunsthalle (as part of the exhibition of the same name of the Kunstverein Lingen Kunsthalle, 15 August 2004 – 10 October 2004), Ostfildern-Ruit 2004,
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• "Martin Eder. Memoirs of My Nervous Illness", published by the Brandenburgischen Kunstverein Potsdam e.V (as part of the exhibition: Martin Eder "Phantasie der Erwachsenen," Brandenburgischer Kunstverein, 14 February 2003 – 14 March 2003), Potsdam 2003.
• "2003 Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße in Bremen", published by the Stifterkreis für den Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße in Bremen (as part of the exhibition "Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße in Bremen," 2 March 2003 – 13 April 2003), Bramsche 2003.
• "The Undead" (part of the solo exhibition of Martin Eder), 2001.
• "Something Slightly Different/ From The Beginning After The End...", published by the Phillip Morris New York Foundation.
• "The Return Of The Anti-Soft", published by the Städtische Kunstsammlungen Augsburg (as part of the Eder exhibition "Forever isn't very long"), Augsburg 2001.