David Bennett (painter)

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David Bennett (* 1941 in Chicago ) is an American opera singer , illustrator and painter .

Life

David Bennett is American of Jewish-Russian descent and was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1941. He studied literature at Harvard University and trained as an opera singer, performing between 1963 and 1973, mainly in the USA.

In the 1970s he was a lecturer at the Free University of Berlin for a short time before he settled in Munich as a freelance painter in 1973 . Today he works in Munich and on La Palma .

Since then he has been working intensively on the Old Testament and its books.

Bennett works with different graphic techniques in letterpress and gravure printing such as linocuts, etchings or elaborate screen printing, among other things on the illustration of various books of the Hebrew Bible .

Works (selection)

  • Caricature (1980)
  • 20s Woman (1981)
  • Nude (2003)

Illustrations

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Spertus Museum, Chicago (1978)
  • Skirbal Museum, Los Angeles (1979)
  • Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia (1980)
  • State Museum of Ethnology , Munich (1982)
  • Municipal Museum (Braunschweig) (1982)
  • Municipal Gallery, Würzburg (1986)
  • Kunsthalle Mannheim (1989)
  • Bavarian State Painting Collections and Olaf Gulbransson Museum: Pneuma / Atem (May 27 to August 12, 2001)
  • Frye Art Museum Seattle, Washington (2003) The Imagined Woman: David Bennett Miniatures
  • Olaf Gulbransson Museum for Graphics and Caricature, Tegernsee: The imagined woman - works on paper (March 5, 2006 to April 30, 2006)
  • Eichstätt Diocesan Museum (March 29 to June 3, 2007)
  • Jewish Museum Westphalia : Scenes from the Bible (September 17 to December 9, 2007)
  • Kulturhof Flachsgasse, Speyer: Scenes from the Bible (November 7, 2008 to January 18, 2009)
  • Cathedral Treasury and Diocesan Museum (Passau) : David Bennett - the face ... a Jewish view of Christian issues (September 16 to October 31, 2011).
  • Birthplace of Pope Benedict XVI. in Marktl : Invisible and Eternal Realities (Benedict XVI.) - Encounter with biblical people in the works of artist David Bennett , April 22 to October 4, 2019

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1]  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.cartoon-journal.de  
  2. ↑ Lewis Carroll., Alice in Wonderland., Illustrations by David Bennett , accessed July 14, 2014
  3. ↑ The Book of Esther., Illustrated by David Bennett, with a foreword by Shalom Ben-Chorin. , accessed July 14, 2014
  4. ↑ [2]  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.cartoon-journal.de  
  5. ↑ http://webmuseen.de/david-bennett-eichstätt.html
  6. ↑ [3]  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.speyer.de  
  7. ↑ Alois Brunner, Genoveva Nitz (ed.): David Bennett [Ill.]: The face ...; a Jewish look at Christian issues. With contributions by Engelbert von der Lippe and Wolfgang Urban . Klinger, Passau 2011, ISBN 978-3-86328-107-6 .
  8. ↑ Pope house in Marktl , accessed on May 4, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Bennett, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American opera singer, illustrator, and painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois, USA