Shahin Charmi (
Persian: شاهین چرمی, born September 17, 1953)[1] is an Iranian-born German
multimedia artist, muralist, and painter.
Biography
Shahin Charmi was born on September 17, 1953, in
Iran.[1] He studied at the
Muthesius Academy of Art in
Kiel, Germany (from 1980 until 1985), under Harald Duwe and Peter Nagel.[2] Charmi is married to Austrian artist Patricia Bolf-Charmi.[3][4][5]
In November 1989, Charmi painted the mural titled,
Revolution und Krieg [
DE] (English: Revolution and War), located at the Polecat Bunker (German: Iltisbunker Zeichnet) in the Gaardner district of Kiel.[6][7] The mural is a narrative of the historical events from November 1918 and the Kiel sailor uprising, to
World War II, and the murder of
Rosa Luxemburg.[7][8]
In 1990, Charmi was awarded the Golden Plotter Award, for computer art by the city of
Gladbeck in Germany.[9][10]
Yoshiyuki, Abe (2000). Computerkunst 2000 = Computer art 2000 : Ausstellung der zehn Preisträger aus den Wettbewerben um den Goldenen Plotter der Stadt Gladbeck 1986–1998 [Computerkunst 2000 = Computer Art 2000: Exhibition of the Ten Winners from the Competitions for the Golden Plotter of the City of Gladbeck 1986–1998] (exhibition) (in German). Museum der Stadt Gladbeck, Innovationszentrum Wiesenbusch, Shahin Charmi, Hans Dehlinger, Gerhard Kammerer-Luka und Jean Baptiste Kempf, Georg Mühleck, Christof Schläger, Quido Sen, Gerd Struwe, Roman Verostko, James Faure Walker, Mark Wilson. Gladbeck, Germany: Museum der Stadt Gladbeck.
ISBN9783923815371.
OCLC741900710.