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Rosemarie Trockel is a contemporary German Conceptual artist whose work challenges traditional notions of femininity, culture, and artistic production. She was born in Schwerte, Germany on November 13, 1952 and studied at the Werkkunstschule in Cologne, becoming one of the first artists to show at Monika Spr?th gallery?an exhibition space which set itself apart by only exhibiting women artists. Trockel?s earliest works were her celebrated Knitted Paintings (1985) series, created using machine-knitted fabrics stretched onto canvas supports. Throughout these woolen surfaces, Trockel depicts generic, computer-generated imagery or, in some cases, specific historic iconography, such as the Soviet worker with a sickle and hammer. http://www.artnet.com/artists/rosemarie-trockel/