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Philipp Humm

Philipp Rudolf Humm is an artist, film director and a former European business executive.

Humm was born in 1959 in Saarbrücken, West Germany. He is German and British; his mother is Belgian. Humm did his Baccalauréat at the Lycée Franco Allemand in Saarbrücken. After studying philosophy and business administration at the University of Saarland, Germany and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, USA, Humm received an MBA with distinction in 1985 from the IMD Business School in Switzerland.

Humm has been an artist and film director since 2015.[citation needed]

Philipp Humm's transition from CEO to artist and ‘ironic-narrator’ of modern life has been less than orthodox. Humm's work has attracted considerable media attention with his first show making the front page of The Wall Street Journal.

His art traverses societal norms and directly questions human nature and what lies ahead as we blindly pursue technological advancement with sometimes shocking alacrity. The acclaimed art critic Edward Lucie-Smith wrote a book, Pop Expressionism, on Humm's early works on paper.

Humm studied at London's Fine Art Studio in 2015/16 and Florence's Academy of Art in 2016. Primarily a painter and sculptor, he also works with a variety of art-forms including film, digital photography and literature to broaden the narrative. Recognising the transformative nature of art, he is keen to democratise the rarefied universe in which it exists today.

2018-20 Humm created a Gesamtkunstwerk, The Last Faust, with over 150 artworks, an illustrated novella and a feature art film. The film is the first cinematic interpretation of Johan Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust 1 and 2 . It was released on 2 December 2020. The artworks cover sculptures, pencil drawings, watercolour and oil painting and fine art photos.

Humm had solo exhibitions at London's Saatchi, Dadiani, Riflemaker and Hix galleries in addition to group shows in London, Venice, Potsdam and Remagen. Humm exhibited at the museum of Nevada in Las Vegas and several iconic art fairs in New York, Los Angeles, and Seoul.

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