The Berlin Origins and Early Forms Born in Berlin, Germany, in 1938, Peter Collien began a career that would span the roles of painter, graphic artist, and visual artist. His early years in the post-war era shaped a perspective that often turned toward the human form and the quiet tension of still life. There is a certain weight to his compositions, a sense of looking closely at how a body sits or how an object occupies a space. His work from the 1960s shows a preoccupation with the interplay between the figure and the environment, often stripping away unnecessary noise to focus on a single,…