![]() ![]() I concluded that this is all very impressive, but at the same time, it seems to reflect only a small fraction of his life and personality. His second living room (pre-lockdown) was the legendary artist’s pub “Gregor Samsa” close to the city park in the north of Nuremberg.He published an art book and overview of his work entitled Art Pussies Fear this Book in 2011 (now out of print and only available second hand).But despite these successes, he has remained a publicity-shy artist. Referred to as “one of the foremost outsider artists in modern folk” by New Yorker Magazine’s editor Ben Greenman, he was featured on the Emmy award-winning show Weeds (“Work Song”).It has over a billion streams and is kind of a hit on Spotify, TikTok and YouTube. His song “Born a Worm” is his most popular song on the internet.Dan Reeder has a contract with the very exquisite record label, “Oh Boy Records”, and any that he will release will be through Oh Boy.My first Google results came up with the following, which amazed and surprised me: It also feels entirely appropriate as one thing quickly becomes clear to me – Dan Reeder seems to be rather a quiet, reserved, self-ironic and taciturn person. It’s a strange feeling to approach someone for an interview whom you have never met before. Instead I did a lot of internet research and went through my notes from his art exhibitions that I have visited. Due to the current difficulties with the global spread of the COVID –19, I could not meet Dan Reeder in person to talk about his life and artistic career. ![]()
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