Alexander Schadow
Alexander Schadow (born November 27, 1958 ) is a German painter , graphic artist and art therapist .
Life
Alexander Schadow is a great-nephew of Hans Schadow . He studied "Free Art" with Tarek Marestani and at the Free Academy Hamburg . He has been working as a freelance artist since 1983. He is the owner of a private practice for "psychological counseling and art therapy". He lives and works in Nienhagen near Celle . From 1991 to 2002 he was state chairman of the IG-Medien- Fachgruppe Bildende Kunst (since 2001 United Service Union ) in the state district of Lower Saxony-Bremen and a member of the state district board of IG Medien. From 2003 to 2018, Alexander Schadow was co-founder and managing director of the Institute for Art and Therapy Potsdam - Art Therapy Academy. Since 2018 he has been a board member of the ASCOL College. Since 1995 he has been a member of the School of Spiritual Science at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland. Since 2018 he has been President of the International Society of Anthroposophic Naturopathy ISAN based in Dornach, Switzerland.
As a graphic artist, he created numerous series on literature, including on Heinrich Heine , William Shakespeare , Johann Wolfgang Goethe , Henrik Ibsen , Muhammad Iqbal and the stories by Naguib Mahfuz . In his painting he is considered a representative of Concrete Art . Schadow received a grant from the German Foreign Office in 1993 .
Exhibitions
His works have been presented in numerous exhibitions in private galleries, museums and state institutions at home and abroad, including:
- 1994: Goethe-Institut Lahore, project: “Weltbilder - ein West-Ostlicher Divan”, Lahore
- 1994: Arts Council of Pakistan, "Worldviews - a West-Eastern Divan", Karachi , (catalog)
- 1995: Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum , " Exile - Asylum : Tatort Germany", Hildesheim
- 1995: Kreiskulturhaus Müritz , "Narrowing - pictures against forgetting", Waren an der Müritz , (catalog)
- 1998: Office for Art and Culture, Celle Municipal Gallery , “Concrete Symbols”, Celle
- 2000: Expo 2000 , Islam Pavilion, “Concrete symbols - bridges between the continents”, Hanover
- 2001: Municipality of Nienhagen, "Area, Color, Form", Nienhagen near Celle
literature
- Alexander Schadow. Excerpts from the graphic work 1980–1990. Exhibition from October 1 to October 30, 1990, Kursana Residence Celle . Schadow Society, Celle 1990.
- Georg Franzen: Alexander Schadow's 12 drafts for Peer Gynt. An art psychological study . Roderer, Regensburg 1990, ISBN 3-89073-479-0 .
- Worldviews. A west-east divan. Amjad Ahmad, Alexander Schadow, an intercultural project documentation. Goethe-Institut Karachi and Schadow-Gesellschaft present. Schadow-Gesellschaft, Celle 1994, ISBN 3-929543-01-X .
Web links
- Literature by and about Alexander Schadow in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website by Alexander Schadow
Remarks
- ^ Schadow-Gesellschaft eV , schadow-gesellschaft.org, accessed on June 29, 2015
- ↑ Discussion practice , accessed on July 8, 2018.
- ↑ - ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 5, 2015
- ↑ [1] accessed on January 12, 2019
- ↑ [2] , accessed on July 5, 2015
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| SURNAME | Schadow, Alexander |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, graphic artist and art therapist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 27, 1958 |