Troels Wörsel (born November 10, 1950 in Aarhus, Danmark) is a Danish painter, currently based in Cologne and Pietra Santa.
"Troels Wörsel is self-taught and since the 1970s. In the 1970s he was interested mostly in Pop art and conceptual art. Moreover philosophical issues such as the relationship between space and time characterised his art.
In the early 1980s the purely painterly caught his interest more than the idea behind the work. He experimented with the wild painting and contributed to the pioneer exhibition Rundschau Deutschland and Bildwechsel at West Berlin's Akademie der Künste.
In 1995 Wörsel was awarded the Eckersberg Medal, and in 2002 he won Carnegie Art Award's first prize with three paintings all of which, like Untitled ("illare idea"), were executed on the reverse of the canvas." [1]